What was your major and does it relate to what you're doing now?

SY37 · #1 09-23-2009, 09:20 AM

Welp

I took some time off from college and now it's time I start thinking about going back.

Problem is, I've no idea what I want to study. From what some people have told me it seems like it really doesn't matter what you study, it's all about just having a degree in SOMETHING.

Seems a bit odd.

What did you major in and does it have anything to do with what you're doing now?

MusicBokonon · #2 09-23-2009, 09:25 AM

I'm currently double majoring in Math and Music. Hopefully I can get a career in performance and music, or if nothing else, actuary. If I'm really desperate, I'll go into teaching. I've still got my grocery store work experience to fall back on. Ah, the life of a musician...

mike_v_s · #3 09-23-2009, 09:27 AM

Political Science. No. I'd do it again, though.

Mike

Valerus · #4 09-23-2009, 09:44 AM

I'm still in school, does that count? I'm in the business school, majoring in Management Information Systems.

guitar ed · #5 09-23-2009, 09:51 AM

My perspective, from the SF Bay Area. I got a BA in International Relations, so naturally, I went into computer programming. That's the bay.

But I would agree, 90% of the battle is just getting a degree, regardless of what it's in. Get your degree in something you enjoy, you will get better grades, etc.

If possible, I would suggest following MBs lead and get a double major, in the arts & in the sciences. Again, it does not matter so much what the degree is, so long as you have it.

As my father told me, many seasons ago. It's like a union card.

Later,

edg

MakiSupaStar · #6 09-23-2009, 09:52 AM

English/Creative Writing and it helps me create win on TB.

TrooperFarva · #7 09-23-2009, 09:53 AM

Computer and Systems Engineering.

I'm a Systems Engineer. I design control systems for HVAC and security for large buildings in NYC.

I'm actually involved in the control systems for the new World Trade Center building.

6jase5 · #8 09-23-2009, 09:55 AM

Biology & Nutrition: Nope, I'm in corporate sales and loving it.

()smoke() · #9 09-23-2009, 09:56 AM

architecture, directly related and impossible without it

SuperDuck · #10 09-23-2009, 09:58 AM

My major was Acoustics (see: focused physics) and yes, I use it on a daily basis at my job.

**Eric Perry** · #11 09-23-2009, 09:58 AM

Undergrad in Psychology, Masters in both School Counseling and Family Therapy (well, the Family Therapy one is technically a Masters equivalency degree earned through an intensive 3-year clinical and didactic training on family therapy). I'm currently a mental health therapist placed at a high school working with adolescents with emotional / behavioral issues. Also, there's a family therapy component to the tx, so I'm certainly utilizing all of my education.

Being that my Masters is in School Counseling however, I want to get OUT of mental health (which is where I am now despite being placed in a high school), and land a job as a school counselor for a district. Those jobs are slim pickin's, however.

NoTalentHack · #12 09-23-2009, 10:02 AM

Education with a major in English/Lit.

It has everything to do with my current "career path" (curriculum development) but nothing to do with the job I'm actually doing right now other than education degree being a requirement to qualify for the job. Makes no sense.

standupright · #13 09-23-2009, 10:07 AM

majored in finance

started out as an accountant then went on to working as a financial analyst. got into technology. now currently design solutions for and manage ERP financial systems like (Oracle / SAP).

SteveC · #14 09-23-2009, 10:13 AM

I have a degree in Music Ed and I teach HS music so I guess it does for me. My wife has an Elementary Ed degree and is a CSS at a bank. Not so much for her professionally, but it helps when it comes to our 2 kids.

Jared Lash · #15 09-23-2009, 10:14 AM

My degrees are in Neurochemistry and Business. My current job (marketing for a scientific education company) is much more directly related to my business degree but wouldn't be possible without my background (and teaching experience) in science.

MadMan118 · #16 09-23-2009, 10:27 AM

Music major, and I write for local papers and magazines. So yeah you can see that college took me far.

Hoover · #17 09-23-2009, 11:47 AM

Undergraduate degree in Audio Recording, graduate degree in Music Composition. The Bachelor's is directly related to how I earn my daily bread, the Master's...eh, not so much. Not at all, really. In fact, I haven't written a farkin' piece of music in a couple years. I suck, just shoot me.

Pilgrim · #18 09-23-2009, 11:55 AM

Bachelor's in Broadcasting, Master's in Adult Education, Ph.D. in Adult Ed and Educational Technology.

Since I'm the general technology expert for a continuing education unit (working with video, audio, webcasting, web conferencing, etc.) each degree has built on the previous one and they all help me do what I do.

Armueller2001 · #19 09-23-2009, 12:25 PM

Bachelor's and Master's in Mining Engineering.. minor in Math. Currently in operations management training at a major stone quarry. Yep, my education definitely relates to my career path.

TheXym · #20 09-23-2009, 01:05 PM

I started as a physics major on full scholarship, decided music meant too much to me and that I really wanted to teach so I changed to Music Ed.

Undergrad in Music Ed with honors in music, Masters in Education with an emphasis in Classroom Technology. I intend to go back for a Choral Conducting Masters degree once my kids are out of the house and can afford the pay cut I'd need to take while on sabbatical to do so (the summer programs don't cut it imho, I'd rather go full time and work with the full college choirs while serving as a grad assistant to a hopefully fairly big name conductor). Possibly a doctorate in Music Ed down the road. After putting in my 30-35 years in teaching high school music in PA, I'm going to retire and either get a gig just across the border in upstate NY for 10 years to get vested in their retirement system (and, since I'm teaching out of state, I'll be able to draw my PA retirement at the same time) or move to a warmer climate and do the same.

I'm using my degree every day in my day job, plus as music director at a local church, I'm also utilizing it on the side. When I'm playing bass at another church or doing gigs with my band or freelancing on bass or keys, I'm using it as well.