You go to school for the piece of paper so you'll be accepted into the club.  You still have to pay your yearly dues to keep your professional designation though.  Apparently if you don't fork over $1000/year you can't be a chartered accountant.  Odd, since you've already been educated. In reality, any public library can give you a far better education.  People go to school for designations, not educations.  Well, intelligent people.  Is there a professional designation for fat cunt lesbians with women's studies degrees?