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Does your career match up with your college degree?

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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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JAHpow
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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

**This post was edited on Feb 22nd 2020 at 10:53:57pm
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xxACIDTRIPxx
Posts: 5980 - Karma: 8,185
I don’t have a degree and work the grill at a kebab shop.
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elcheapo
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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
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Casey
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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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Thug_Scout
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went to the school of hard knocks and now sell coke out of my mazda miata
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GayWolf420
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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

**This post was edited on Feb 23rd 2020 at 2:11:18pm
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HypeBeast
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Yes but with my degree you really gotta fuck up not to be able to
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LiquorLanch
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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.
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CaptainObvious.
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Degree in linguistics. Work in finance. No not even close.
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Non_State_Actor
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CaseyNot 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.


The honest truth right there.
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boozer
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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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HypeBeast
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boozerIn 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.


Like stand up comedian that actually pays the bills? That's pretty cool
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Mingg
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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.
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P-wurps
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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.
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Mingg
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CaptainObvious.Degree in linguistics. Work in finance. No not even close.

I thought you were Sami’s teacher?
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.nasty
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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.
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CaptainObvious.
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MinggI thought you were Sami’s teacher?


Years ago. She's in a masters program now and I taught her when she was a freshman.

fuckin hell I'm old.
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Dilldoes
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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....
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TRVP_ANGEL
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Double degree of arts in gender studies and critical analysis.

Liftie
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Bushdid9_11
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Forestry degree, firefighter
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CaptainObvious.
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TRVP_ANGELDouble degree of arts in gender studies and critical analysis.

Liftie


Well? Is there a correlation between gender and ability to ride a chairlift?
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connecticunt
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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.
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TheMoostafian
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Bushdid9_11Forestry degree, firefighter


Nice, wildland fire or city?
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boozer
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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
BST_PoliceLike stand up comedian that actually pays the bills? That's pretty cool
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cydwhit
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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.
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ChadThundercock
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Let's just say they don't make a degree for what I do
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oldmanski
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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.
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boozer
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The referenced post has been removed.


Have you ever seen someone put 2 staplers in their mouth?
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TOAST.
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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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Dilldoes
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TOAST.Mech engineering degree, design automated fabrication equipment so a direct match. That being said I use very little of what I learned in college.


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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CabbyArrant
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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...)

**This post was edited on Oct 2nd 2020 at 11:00:57am
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steezbox
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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.
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TOAST.
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skithemidwestttI 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.


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.
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Dylan_
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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.
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Bushdid9_11
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TheMoostafianNice, wildland fire or city?


wildland
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Str8Chedda
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Degree in Dietetics (nutrition) .. now working in sales, not any bit closely related
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gravel
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mech engineering but hustling the burbloopy industry for the time being, would be nice to use some engineering skills and make some shit tho
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arnie_grape
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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.

**This post was edited on Feb 25th 2020 at 9:58:59pm
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ASAPCarter
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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.
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Thug_Scout
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GORILLAWALLACEI 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.

**This post was edited on Feb 25th 2020 at 9:58:59pm


That's interesting.. how has it become a nightmare?
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foolmetwice
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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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arnie_grape
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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.
Thug_ScoutThat's interesting.. how has it become a nightmare?
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Twinjibber77
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GORILLAWALLACEI went to college for snow resort operations

**This post was edited on Feb 25th 2020 at 9:58:59pm


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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MXmx
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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.
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