My undergraduate degree was in Spanish and my Master’s degree is in Social Work. I tend to do a lot of nonprofit work with Spanish-speaking immigrants so I definitely use my degree in that sense, and it gave me a broad overview of the culture before really getting into my profession. Generally I think both degrees complement one another well, but they aren’t exactly directly related.
Same here, but I didn’t learn a thing in college about programming that wasn’t either obvious (stacks, linked lists, etc.) or practically obsolete when I was learning it (Pascal, VMS, etc.). I went to college because my parents refused to believe that I could work as a programmer without getting a degree. I starting working full-time in my sophomore year and got As in all of my compsci classes without attending them except to take the exams. So I voted “Yes, but I would be able to do this job just as well without the degree”.
BS in Applied Mathematics
BS in Computer Science
Minor in Geography
My Job:
Business Owner (with my Wife) in a Day Program for Developmentally Disabled Adults.
The math and computer science is overkill for my position as the Fiscal half of the company, but sometimes useful when it comes to Excel spreadsheets and Routing employees to pickup and drop-off clients that are spread out in our catchment area in an efficient manner. I did do some follow-up schooling in Business Law and Accounting just enough to know when to seek help when I need it.
Um…I’m one of the 4 with no job or degree. But, I’m working on it!!! I’ll finish my AA in Liberal Arts next month. It’s completely useless for anything except transferring, which is what I’m doing so I guess my soon to be had degree is useful!
I have a BS in Civil Engineering. I am currently a part-time lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department of the local university. I teach classes that I took as an undergrad. So yeah, my undergraduate degree was pretty darn helpful.
“No, but the skills I learned in school are still helpful”
It’s a little more complicated than that, actually. I originally went to school to be a secondary school art teacher, but didn’t finish my degree for lack of money. My career path led me to end up being a bookkeeper. When I lost my job in 2008, the recession made it damn near impossible to find another one without a degree. So, I went back to school at the beginning of 2010 just so I could have a fighting chance at doing the same thing I’d done for the past dozen or so years. Now that I’m done, guess what I’m doing? Yep - just got hired this month to do bookkeeping/accounting work. But I wouldn’t have been hired if I didn’t have the BA in Accounting with almost-a-minor in MIS (I could take 3 more credits to get it, but I don’t need 'em for anything else, and I don’t want any more student loan debt, thankyewverymuch).
Yes. BS in English and Creative Writing, currently working as an editor. It’s very relevant, but it took some time to break into the publishing business. I wish I had more training in grammar and style in college, but good books have helped me refresh my memory and keep my skills up to date.
I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and work as an environmental consultant. I use the problem solving tactics and the background understanding of industrial processes (I use the physics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer parts of my degree way more than the machine analysis or statics side). Basically, my job is to figure out what is coming out of plants and whether or not that is within regulatory limits. If so, document. If not, figure out what they can do to get in compliance.
It’s kinda boring and I’m waiting until after Christmas for my yearly raise to figure out whether I want to stay in this field or move back towards my degree.
BA in English and MA in journalism here. My current, and previous, jobs involve websites, HTML code, and quite of bit of [del]butt-licking[/del] customer service, plus this one involved knowing some legal intricacies of HOAs, so o o … no, not much of shit in the way of relevance. However, in college, I did learn not to split a bottle of Southern Comfort with one (1) other girl, so I suppose I learned something useful.
Actually, that’s not entirely true. A co-worker was complaining about the early darkness after the time change and I busted out with “Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” That’s relevant, right?
Yep. Computer Science. Then an MBA and some time at a management consulting firm. The CS degree taught me how to break a problem down (at the time, in order to program) and also how to manage projects. Both the analytical thinking skills and the project management have been essential to my business leadership roles - I can break problems down, manage the work and understand how IT can provide the foundation you need for the strategic growth of the company…