Or helped you get a job? If so, how?

More properly I should say has your college education helped?

10/27/2010 4:14:11 AM

I am a college lecturer, so yeah, I use what I learnt in college at my job daily (well, only a small part of it, as I teach just basic courses).

For most people who go into the corporate world (not engineering, but business), they have to learn everything on the job, at least that's what my friends tell me.

10/27/2010 6:41:46 AM

Even for engineering you have to learn most of it on the job. However, your degree and subsequent knowledge of the fundamentals of your engineering discipline is still relied on heavily in a lot of positions.

10/27/2010 7:27:34 AM

Uh yeah... you can't just jump into aerospace engineering with a high school diploma.

10/27/2010 8:58:15 AM

ICWYDT

A) Get people to consider what they would do if their field of study had no impact on their financial prospects.
B) Convince them A) is pretty much reality.

[Edited on October 27, 2010 at 4:35 PM. Reason : but my answers are yes and yes]

10/27/2010 4:31:54 PM

To answer the questions myself. I'd say it has, a little bit. Having the degree helped to get a job, and with advancement, and some basic writing, presentation, and other skills that have broad but generic appeal. Now that I'm back in grad school, it feels more vocational, and I expect it will much more of an effect that my bachelors degree did.

10/27/2010 11:38:16 PM

I've got a history degree, and I have an admin position in a pediatrics practice. I feel that it's really given me a leg up on communicating, primarily through writing and a little with presenting. It may sound silly, but nobody in my office can write easily understood instructions for computer usage (and other various things) as well as me, but my boss certainly likes it. Most successes in my job comes from the retail positions I had during school, though, and all the customer service I did with that.

10/27/2010 11:55:33 PM

I'd be interested in more Study Haller input on this idea:
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=604026

Do you think that would help reinvigorate the Study Hall? My hope is you'll read that full thread, then respond.

I don't know how many people regularly check the feedback forum, so I wanted to let people know about that idea to expand the breadth of the Study Hall to make it more appealing to the changing realities of Tdub users.

10/29/2010 12:16:23 AM

I work as a chemist....I got a Poultry Science degree.

I got my real job because I worked at Lab Corp.....they let me move up into a chemist position because I have the degree. I took a lot of chemistry "for fun" as open electives.

11/6/2010 12:36:50 AM

I have an economics degree

I blow shit up

11/6/2010 10:12:14 AM

I'm a mechanical engineer.

I have a mechanical engineering degree.

Nope... didn't help me at all lol

11/6/2010 5:00:59 PM

i'm a mechanical engineer, so i doubt i'd've gotten my current job without it...though having a BS in any engineering discipline probably would've been enough.

that said, a trained monkey could do my job.

11/7/2010 1:51:54 PM

I'm a Unix Sysadmin, I have a Computer Science degree. I would not have gotten the job without it, but with the exception of two, maybe three, classes, none of my college education is even slightly relevant to my job. 98% of the skills that got me this job were from (also academically unrelated) internships or personal projects.

11/23/2010 2:05:58 PM

my degree in math gave me analytic thinking skills which in turn help me daily with my job, but I rarely use the content of my classes. Sometimes I'll give out a fun math problem and offer a prize to people though.

11/23/2010 6:35:57 PM

^same

11/23/2010 9:33:26 PM