Who Is Actually Using the Degree They Graduated With?

[DuneAHH]

Congrats to all of you who have degrees + the added benefit of using them.

I do not have a "degree" and it didn't hold me back from achieving my goals.

Of course I went into the work force waaaay back when the earth cooled...

when common sense smarts, good manners, great observation skills and an energetic work ethic were reason enough for companies to take a chance on people.
(I'm talking general business... not technically trained fields like medicine, law, engineering, etc.)

It's an interesting trend in big business... Even in light of bench strength balances being out of wack; companies continue to only seek to hire "young" framed
pieces-of-paper over of "old" bottom-line results oriented experience.
And businesses are failing right & left.
Somewhere along the line big businesses lost some common farm sense: let the old dog train the new puppy how to be a "proper dog" BEFORE the old dog lays it down for good. Every herdsman knows you can't efficiently round up a herd with only a litter of untrained puppies (even if all those puppies are highly pedigreed).

 

[Will B]

Warblingchicken, what IS a AA degree? Where do you get one of those?

It's a long story. I'll tell you at the soiree!

 

[scooterbug44]

I use my degree 24/7!

I also went to a college where you weren't allowed to choose a major until your sophomore year and were required to take a variety of classes to explore all of your options - definitely think that helped.

Scooterbro is the opposite - he's tried 2-3 colleges and we are all keeping our fingers crossed that he now sticks with culinary school.

My cousins definitely aren't using theirs - one only got her generic undergrad degree as a MRS. degree and didn't graduate from a post-grad program because she followed the bum to another country instead of doing her final project. Her sister didn't find a career in her degree either, but may still end up in it - she's currently on hiatus (housewife w/ twin babies), but she actually has a work ethic and sense of reality.

 

[hnooe]

I have a BFA (no, not a "B" "F"reaking Deal either!!) degree in Art History/Painting from UNC Chapel Hill....
Everything I learned I learned on the job, and it had absolutely nothing to do with painting, but I do wish I could still be a fulltime artiust...

 

[Mermaid]

Way cool stories everyone!!

 

[Matt J]

I try to use my doctorate in funn every day.

Seriously though, there is no degree for working with computer videos and idiots all day. I think ITT Tech has a degree, but their funny credit hours wouldn't transfer to a Caribbean Diploma mill.

 

[DuneAHH]

One of my favorite stories of all time (you've probably all heard this story b-4):

A friend of mine who eeked through dentistry school at the bottom of his class said:

"Do you know what they call the bottom-scum-of-the-barrel-grads at my med school?"
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"DR."

 

[30ABandMan]

I use my B.A. in Music Performance/Teaching yep, I'm a band director. Of course, I'm looking to move from my current school. I thought that leaving SoWal for a bigger band would be great. I was wrong, it has been sheer misery all year.

 

[familyof3]

I use mine alomst 10 years now as a RN. Now if I could only find me a good job within 1 hour of the beach I would be in heaven. Actually it is probably the hubby that would have a harder time. Don't tell him I said that he has been begging for years to pack up and leave. I just can't get brave enough to leave the only place both of our families call home. Trust me other than home their is nothing holding us here oh well the cost of housing!

 

[gardening1970]

My BA is in English - concentration in print journalism and minor in political science. I worked for a newspaper for about a year before enrolling in paralegal school. Maybe I should have gone to law school then, but I got married, bought a house and had children instead. It all worked out. I've been with the same law firm for 15 years. I still like my job most days, and those grammar and syntax classes have come in handy.