(Pun: arts)
1) Having a useless arts degree (Noun)
2) Having overachieving experience in your professional field but no college certification; the lack of it putting you lower in social hierarchy; helping you feel you just fucked around all this time. (Verb)
You can either get a real degree in medicine or you can pursue a college dickery in that fluxus art stuff.
Pretty sure that homesless street musician has a college dickery in advanced music theory.
What is the point of my photography dickery after all these years?