Amen! (And this is from a college per’fesser)
I have a BS in Biology, but I was a counselor and a youth pastor and have been a Creative Director at a couple of ad agencies. NONE of which cared what my degree was in.
I teach Graphic Design now, and tell my students that their scrap of sheepskin won’t get them a job. Their creativity and job skills and work ethic will.
B.A. in the Natural Sciences (emphasis in chemistry, especially organic, along with molecular cell biology, with some astrophysics thrown in for the hell of it).
M.D. in, well, medical doctoring stuff
Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch). Haven’t worked a day in the field except for my internship during school, though…all of my professional experience has been graphic designer/art director/etc.
Fairly common for architecture grads to end up in other creative fields, though. Architecture school – although difficult – is a good way to learn how to be a designer, and you can take that where you want.
BA in HR Management, MA in Organizational Management, and a couple of industry certs in HR. I could have obtained the same functional knowledge just studying for the certifications, but the papers open a lot more doors than being without them. The most valuable thing I learned in college was how to think critically and look at things from a more circumspect vantage point.
I’ve thought about going back and getting my MFA, then progressing on to a doctoral program in Literature so I could teach it at the college level, or getting my PhD in one of the Management fields in order to teach that. Frankly, the day to day mundaneness of HR Management is soul sucking, and often is adult babysitting.
Nothing. Grew up in an era when phony degrees were not necessary and you learn on the job in weeks instead of years.
A.A. in Liberal Arts, AAS in Nursing, BSN in Nursing.
And believe me, you could do it if you wanted to. It’s really not that hard, nor that impressive. It’s mostly just expensive and a waste of time.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
My wife and I both have degrees in journalism; like many others with journalism degrees, we haven’t worked as journalists since the mid-90s.
A BS in Telecommunications (TV and Radio…not telephones and such like everyone thinks). Once that took me nowhere I got a M.A. in Public Relations.
It’s not as impressive as saying I have it, but I was a (HORRIBLE) math class away from having a dual master’s in PR and Journalism. I was a third of the way through the math class before I was told I would have to re-apply to the journalism school, be accepted and go through a couple more hoops to get the other Master’s. It wasn’t worth it to me, so I dropped the class, took my degree and went home.
I can imagine that HR is soul-sucking. A lot of business is soul-sucking and HR must get the vacuum from both sides.
Teaching Lit at college is really hard to break into, and the pay is, um, astonishingly low until you actually get tenure track. I do think you might be onto something with the other option. Something to investigate. More avenues to pursue, more jobs out there (training is needed in many fields, so it needn’t just be academia.) I’d encourage you to check it out. Soul-sucking is bad. (You’ve got a lot on your plate right now - maybe researching this and making plans could be a way for you to have a little me time.)
BA in music theory & composition. But I have worked as a Senior Engineer in the IT hardware/software field, so go figure.
Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons)
BA in English.
BA in English lit, BS in biology, MA in linguistics, PhD in linguistics, graduate certificate in NLP.
BA in English, MA in English (literature), MLIS (that’s a library science degree).
I was and still am to some degree an idealist and hopeless romantic, hence the first two degrees in literature.
I apologize if none of my posts reflect how educated I am… 
everything I’ve learned and all my high standards fall by the wayside when I’m online.
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The phony ones are still unnecessary. Nice threadshit, sunshine.
Started a Natural Science Area Major BA, but burned out late in the game… and spent 16 years in the workforce before eventually getting myself a BA in Liberal Arts just so it would be behind me AND it would be something so utterly generic that it’s pointless to say I’m “not working in it”.
I have an AAS with no specialty, because they weren’t allowed, but heavy on microbiology and chemistry.
I have a Diploma in Brewing from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in London, UK which allows me to use the post nominal “Dipl. Brew” (but I don’t, especially since I’m not in the industry anymore)
I have a BA with a double major in Leadership Development and Business, minor in Public Administration, which I finally completed at age 40. It was mostly online and I chose the majors based on how quickly I could obtain a degree.
Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems.
BS in biochemistry. I decided grad school wasn’t for me. I lack the intellect and work ethic for a PhD (plus many fields are over saturated) but I considered grad work in neuroscience or molecular biology.