Are you using your degree for your job?

[Crispy]

I could not get this job without this specific degree.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I could not get this job without this specific degree.

Good for you! I wish I had been able to study something I was interested in that would lead to something else but alas, my school was not set up for anything I am now interested in.

 

[spanglechick]

Yes - my job is now a graduate profession (twasn't always), and the subject is important too.

And actually, for teaching, i don't think that's just hoop jumping. I do use the stuff I learnt on my degree a lot of the time, and more to the point - the stuff i did on my degree was the foundation for the areas i later discovered on my own, and which also inform my teaching.

tis odd, really - i'm completely the sort of person who would end up doing something unrelated... but on the other hand, i've always been pretty much in love with all things dramatic and theatrical - so I guess it also makes sense that i've ended up in the same field i was interested in as a teenager.

 

[ohmyliver]

No, but obliequely yes, the ways of thinking, and writing learned at university are useful. I went to university, because I found the subject fascinating, rather than doing it to get qualifications to get a job.

 

[han]

many times in IT as long as you're good wid computers it don't matter what your degree is in

That's very true, isn't it! Though, you do find the some adverts ask for you to have a computing degree or MSc conversion in IT And neither of those are particularly necessary for eg. being a network manager. Degree level computing is v useful for stuff like programming and database stuff though, I'm sure.

 

[weltweit]

yes

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Unless you're a composer
.

Well actually I do do that as well but it's more of a sideline. Like you say it's a very hard market to break if you want to make a living out of it.

Mind you if I could get two 30 second song jobs a month I would be laughing.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I don't think I'm using my first degree at all. My librarianship skills, however, are useful even in a bookshop.

 

[catinthehat]

I have degrees in both Sociology and Psychology, an MA in Criminology and a PGCE and teach sociology and criminology, have taught psychology in the past so yes, I do. However, my boss and his boss and 3/4 of our management team have no degree. Which would be fine if they stuck to managing things but they just love to tell us how to do our jobs without having the slightest clue of what they are talking about. In a previous job I had a manager who previously ran a bridal boutique and had "groomed" beauty pageant contestants and who asked me if I really had to cover Marxism as it was "real ikky stuff". Education - safe in their hands.

 

[hovis]

Well, I'm working in engineering design so I have to really. There are also lots of <bullshit bingo=10points>'transferable skills'</bullshit bingo> that you learn in life that you can also draw on.

And work experience always helps.

 

[kabbes]

I'm an actuary.

The required maths skillset to be an actuary exceeds A-level standard. So you have to have done some form of numerate degree. Ideally maths, really, but there are plenty of scientists and economists too.

 

[weltweit]

Using my degree for my job? Absolutely, could not have got the job so eaily without that degree and the degree is valuable when doing the job also.

Would not have chosen a degree that could not get me a job, what would have been the point! ?