Board 8 > Do you think you use a lot of your degree at your work?

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How much do you use?

tree fiddy
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0% but it's my fault for getting a history degree
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0%.

My degree is in English.
I'm an English teacher.
Still it's 0%.
Chinese kindergarteners aren't really ready for Victorian/Renaissance Literature it seems.
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Not one bit.

I majored in English and don't do any writing, editing, linguistic analysis, or any of that.
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what degree?

also, what work?
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I've got two degrees.

I use my BA in Communications to be awesome at my shitty job

I use my BA in Philosophy to ponder why I continue to work this shitty job, and what we give up as a species by making labor the center of our existence.
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0%

I majored in English and I cut slabs of meat
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Xiahou Shake posted...

I've got two degrees.

I use my BA in Communications to be awesome at my shitty job

I use my BA in Philosophy to ponder why I continue to work this shitty job, and what we give up as a species by making labor the center of our existence.

maybe you shouldnt have gotten two BAs then
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Yes. A lot.

I also majored in English but I'm currently in the process of getting my teaching degree so hopefully the number becomes higher than the zero percent it is now.
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0%
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Although I needed a degree in order to get the job in the first place so you could argue 100%
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85%. I'm not using a LOT of my logistics training but working in corporate sales is putting a lot of my Supply Chain degree to use.
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probably like 60%
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I'd say so, yes.
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Have a Geophysics degree

Work in Ad Tech

So...not a whole lot
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Well I have a Computer Science degree

I do some programming at work but it ends up being more IT than programming most of the time. But there is a lot of overlap between CS and IT as well. I suppose if you took at what percentage of the classes I took are useful in my job the answer approaches 100% because of that whereas if I were just a programmer like I used to be the IT stuff in the curriculum would be less useful, but it doesn't feel that way because the majority of what I end up using was learned in the lower level classes and the higher level classes are used very little.
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Maybe 40%

I have a math degree and use probability/statistical analysis a decent amount at work. All the higher level math classes have gone to waste so far though.
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100%, but I have a degree in molecular genetics and my job is a PhD doing glioblastoma research. After that who knows. Probably go into pharma industry so very likely still highly applicable.
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economics

run a small business

minimally
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Accounting degree and I work as an auditor so yeah.
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I went to school for Digital Media, and I'm an underground diamond driller, so that's a big no for me.
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100%
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what degree
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5% bachelor's, 40% associate's

I do tech support for a school district but for a tiny fraction of the time I make recommendations on buying and investing in technology so I kinda sorta use my business degree (bachelor's) that has emphasis on technology. My associate's degree is in computer information technology but it's a mix of programming and tech support skills. Still, mostly programming.

In truth, I could have just not gone to get my bachelor's and I'd have saved tens of thousands of dollars.

In truth, I hate how my life has turned out with all the work I did in school.
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10%? It's in the same ballpark but not directly related. (got a music composition degree, am mostly doing music education)
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I have a math degree and I'm teaching kids math, so yes, technically, but it's all stuff I learned before college. It would be more accurate to sry I'm using my hs diploma.
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About 40%
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Like 25% but at least it shuts people up who ask what I studied in college as they can see a path from there to here even though that's not what happened
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I gotta add that I use GameFAQs at work far more than I use my degree.
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Am I the only one here that majored in English that actually utilizes my degree?

probably around 75% as I work within a report editing/processing group.
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My Computer Science degree got me my job, but it's amazing how little of the stuff I learned is applicable to the real world
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Have a history degree; work in law enforcement.

Theres more overlap than you'd think though (research skills are useful).
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Pretty much all of it. Got a bunch of essential skills and experiences from my education. Not necessarily from the actual classes and lectures, but the environment and opportunities that arose.
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HotDogButts posted...

economics

run a small business

minimally

Being a drug dealer counts as a small business now? ^_~

100% for me. Refused to be one of those guys with an English degree working in finance or whatever, so I became a professional writer.
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Accounting, use most of what I learned
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Well I wouldn't have the job without the degree. I did English with Journalism. I recently used a little bit of the journalism part because my class are learning how to write news articles. I also proofread and edit lesson plans and other documents and I developed that in Journalism?

The skills used in English are being passed on too but at a much lower level. The knowledge I gained in English is really not relevant to the level I teach at, though I drop in occasional bits from my creative writing class, particularly to the higher-ability kids.

I have a teaching degree which I obviously use all the time, if that counts.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

HotDogButts posted...

economics

run a small business

minimally

Being a drug dealer counts as a small business now? ^_~

100% for me. Refused to be one of those guys with an English degree working in finance or whatever, so I became a professional writer.

How on Earth do you get rich as a writer these days?
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English - nah. when I first started working, I would've said "the writing experience is really useful" but at this point, my on-the-job experience dwarfs anything I got out of college. I look at my early stuff and it's like wow this is amateur hour

law - like 50%? the first-year stuff I definitely use (procedure, torts, contracts), but a lot of my electives were either too theoretical (rule of law) or just have never come up (labor law, fair housing act, death penalty [banned in my state])
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trdl23 posted...

How on Earth do you get rich as a writer these days?

You don't
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

HotDogButts posted...

economics

run a small business

minimally

Being a drug dealer counts as a small business now? ^_~

100% for me. Refused to be one of those guys with an English degree working in finance or whatever, so I became a professional writer.

nah I haven't done that for like 5 years at least. Completely sober.
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trdl23 posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

HotDogButts posted...

economics

run a small business

minimally

Being a drug dealer counts as a small business now? ^_~

100% for me. Refused to be one of those guys with an English degree working in finance or whatever, so I became a professional writer.

How on Earth do you get rich as a writer these days?

Rise up in the ranks in advertising
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100%, music education

Well, I doubled in composition, so 100% of two degrees.
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Actuarial science degree and work as an actuary. Sooo basically all of it.
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I majored in Geology.

I am a Geologist.

0% anyways.
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100% once I finally graduate. Being a health care provider kind of necessitates that...I would hate to see a doctor/PA/etc who didn't rely on their training.
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I'm a bookkeeper, so I pretty much only use concepts from my introductory accounting classes... but hey, I'm severely affected by autism, so it was the best I could do job-wise. (and no way in heck will I consider a master's in accounting, because I could never do a management level job) At least it's a comfortable living for a guy who's single.
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