Does your career match up with your college degree?

TheMoostafian

TheMoostafian

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I have an audio engineering degree and I’m a general contractor and a forester.

How many of you actually got a career in the field you studied in college?
 
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I'm a videographer with an automotive related manufacturing company and I make race videos and travel a lot.

So it's pretty closely related

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Spent 2 years and got to were I should've been when I graduated highschool. A total waste if time and money so I'm unemployed
 
Not really. Social science major and I work for a City utility. I have this whole line of BS that I use in job interviews about how they are connected but they really aren’t, Injust picked that major because it was easiest.
 
Yeah, in a way. It was hospitality management but besides running restaurants, running hotels and stuff seemed fuckin boring and kinda dull

Now going for recreational therapy and want to help people get their lives back on track after injuries and coach kids skiing in the winter

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Got a degree in hospitality...im a chef in a place well known place nationally. There's no correlation believe it or not.
 
14110863:Casey said:
Not really. Social science major and I work for a City utility. I have this whole line of BS that I use in job interviews about how they are connected but they really aren’t, Injust picked that major because it was easiest.
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The honest truth right there.
 
In a weird way, yeah. I’m a stand up comedian but I was an English major. It goes without saying that you don’t need an English degree to do stand up but it has helped a lot. In terms of writing and looking at random things with a critical lens it has helped but in all honesty, if I could go back I would have just started pursuing stand up straight out of high school. I passed up a lot of gigs and amazing opportunities to study and shit.
 
14111156:boozer said:
In a weird way, yeah. I’m a stand up comedian but I was an English major. It goes without saying that you don’t need an English degree to do stand up but it has helped a lot. In terms of writing and looking at random things with a critical lens it has helped but in all honesty, if I could go back I would have just started pursuing stand up straight out of high school. I passed up a lot of gigs and amazing opportunities to study and shit.
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Like stand up comedian that actually pays the bills? That's pretty cool
 
NOPE. I have a degree in operations management.

I work as a CNA(nursing assistant) which is a 3 week training program and I get paid significantly more than I was making when I had a job that required a bachelors.
 
Yup. Went to college for electrical engineering, have been working at a aircraft design/manufacturing company since I graduated a couple years ago. I've always been a big nerd for electronics so I kinda already knew that I wanted to be in this field pretty early on.
 
My bachelor's is in Sustainability Studies.

I manage a ski shop so I'm not really using it, but if any degree changes your point of view and ways of thinking for the better, it's that one.
 
I have a basic business degree. I've been in logistics for the last 6 years. Ended up interning for the freight company I worked for in college. Worked my way through them for a few years before being picked up by my current employer. Sr. Transportation Analyst. I get paid decent have very flexible work hours and 3 weeks vacation. I regularly watch my boss eat edibles at his desk lol. I really work maybe 3-4 hours a day so it isn't always "fulfilling" but at the same time its so low on stress I cant really complain.

Only down side is location. St. Louis isn't exactly a ski or even an outdoor hub....
 
Not even a little, but hoping to work my way there. I first went to school for physics and maths and dropped out after my junior year. Now I work in corporate sales for a resort, and going back to school for software engineering and hoping I end up with a career in that field. I want to be able to sit in my house by myself in the middle of nowhere and still make some money.
 
Well technically I make most of my money by selling nudes on my OnlyFans account. If you Venmo me $20 I can put a whole stapler in my mouth

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Like stand up comedian that actually pays the bills? That's pretty cool
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Most of a mechanical engineering degree, and all of a journalism degree.

Work as an illustrator, writer, coach, and carpenter.

So sorta relevant I guess.
 
I didnt go to collage, I did graduate HS. Ive always fixed stuff, turn wrenches on about anything and everything(Ok, not everything,lol) I always have had a job related to that. I am a maintenance manager at a very large plant supplying a product for brewers and distillers.
 
Mech engineering degree, design automated fabrication equipment so a direct match. That being said I use very little of what I learned in college.
 
14111549:TOAST. said:
Mech engineering degree, design automated fabrication equipment so a direct match. That being said I use very little of what I learned in college.
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I was always super interested in been automated tech. ( I watched hours and hours of those how cars/boats etc are made videos as a kid). Is it as fun as it looks? I can imagine designing then implementing must be so satisfying.
 
Degree in Electrical Engineering. I work in embedded systems.

So yes....

(Update: New job as an electronics design engineer and started my Masters in Aerospace engineering which my job is paying for

So still yes...)

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Environmental studies degree, but I work as a bike messenger. I love the job market. Though riding my bike all day in heavy traffic is fun in the meantime.
 
14111630:skithemidwesttt said:
I was always super interested in been automated tech. ( I watched hours and hours of those how cars/boats etc are made videos as a kid). Is it as fun as it looks? I can imagine designing then implementing must be so satisfying.
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It's very satisfying when it works the way you planned, but can also be stressful if things don't work how you thought they would. The culture of the workplace kind of dictates how enjoyable the job is in the end.
 
Bachelors in Environmental Science, work as a project manager at a civil/environmental engineering firm. I also invest in real estate and I am eventually trying to transition out of my 9-5 and invest full time. Plan is within 10 years to leave my engineering job. So, I use it now and have since college but don't plan on working in the industry forever.
 
mech engineering but hustling the burbloopy industry for the time being, would be nice to use some engineering skills and make some shit tho
 
I went to college for snow resort operations and now I supervise a terrain parks program at a leader resort.

I'm working my dream job but now that I'm 25 the dream is slowly becoming a nightmare so I might go get my name on a new piece of paper soon.

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Masters in lesbian interpretive dance. Now I’m a park rat so pretty much the same thing. I also train pigeons how to speak spanish as a side hustle.
 
14111950:GORILLAWALLACE said:
I went to college for snow resort operations and now I supervise a terrain parks program at a leader resort.

I'm working my dream job but now that I'm 25 the dream is slowly becoming a nightmare so I might go get my name on a new piece of paper soon.

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That's interesting.. how has it become a nightmare?
 
For all of u whose jobs have nothing to do with ur degree. What did you do to make your resume appealing for those jobs? Im hoping to get a liberal arts degree in a field that interests me (sociology, poli sci, or ethnic studies) but doesnt have great job prospects so curious about how to market myself to make some decent money with an unappealing liberal arts degree.
 
nightmare would be a massive overstatement but it's just not as fun anymore. had a few knee surgeries and other smaller injuries so it sucks being sore somewhere most of the time. at some point the damage on my body wont be worth the low cap wage.

but mentally it's having to boss around a dozen jagaloons who can't follow the simplest of instructions and making sure everything gets done properly. it's way more fun to be te dipshit with the rake who just rides around until someone tells you to do something.

I still love what I get to do every day and I'm really proud of my parks but it's getting old and so am I.

14112112:Thug_Scout said:
That's interesting.. how has it become a nightmare?
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14111950:GORILLAWALLACE said:
I went to college for snow resort operations

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This was all I wanted to do my senior year of high school and it didn't happen. I heard the same thing about it getting shitty from a friend in big resort stuff and one on the operations side; sucks to hear!

Stoked I'm happy now regardless, but damn it sounded so cool at the time.
 
My degree is electrical engineering. Most of the time at work I do that.

Sometimes they have me do other things like rough up people looking to steal in our parking lot, install built in microwave, unplug a sink, install lights, throw pallets away, etc.

As long as they pay me my engineering rate and I’m mostly doing electrical engineering, I’m fine with it. Beats sitting at a desk all day.
 
part of me wishes I had done regular school or earned a trade after high school like most of my friends but the other part of me is no ragrets cause I know I've had a lot more fun than them in the last 7 years. the hard part now is choosing a path to go down when I don't really have an obvious passion for anything else.

14112411:Twinjibber77 said:
This was all I wanted to do my senior year of high school and it didn't happen. I heard the same thing about it getting shitty from a friend in big resort stuff and one on the operations side; sucks to hear!

Stoked I'm happy now regardless, but damn it sounded so cool at the time.
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Yeah kind of. got a degree in computer networking and telecommunications and now do technology consulting.... until tomorrow because i just quit my job to ski for the rest of the season lol

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I’m jealous.

14112603:3oh3 said:
Yeah kind of. got a degree in computer networking and telecommunications and now do technology consulting.... until tomorrow because i just quit my job to ski for the rest of the season lol

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14112490:Poindexter. said:
Yeah, it's just one of those matter of time things. The kind of work suites me, but honestly with geotech a lot of getting your first job is either luck, you do really shitty tough field work (which I wouldn't mind, field work suites me) or you know someone.

At least that's how it seems, numerous friends in the field have said the same such as: "it really is who you know sometimes"

So if anyone knows anyone wink wink nudge nudge I wanna make more money and not work in skiing anymore
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Your first job is shit, always will be. Just get your foot in the door somewhere. I ate literal shit for two years but sucked it up at a shit ass low pay corporate firm doing the shit/grunt field work. Sucked it up for 2 years and landed at a company I don't see myself ever leaving that pays me a lot of money.

shitty day in the field beats a great day at the desk, everytime.
 
14112160:foolmetwice said:
For all of u whose jobs have nothing to do with ur degree. What did you do to make your resume appealing for those jobs? Im hoping to get a liberal arts degree in a field that interests me (sociology, poli sci, or ethnic studies) but doesnt have great job prospects so curious about how to market myself to make some decent money with an unappealing liberal arts degree.
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There’s not a single way to do it and as many can attest to, your plans and dreams will evolve. First question is: if you’re not hoping to work in the field, why are you spending time on that degree.

me personally I spent all of college working as a computer tech for the school. So I graduated with a linguistics degree in the hope of using it but I had 4 years of credible IT experience to fall back on. Which I did. Things evolved and 11 years later I’m working in finance. It’s very situationally specific as to how you can spin sufficient bullshit to make yourself appealing.
 
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