Job matches your college major?

United States
August 21, 2006 4:24pm CST
If you went to college and are now working, does your work have anything to do with what you studied? Do you hope to get a job "in your field"?
10 responses
@danielb93 (115)
• United States
17 Sep 06
Went to school to be an Electrical Engineer and am now an Electrical Sales Engineer .. so Yes indeed
• United States
10 Sep 06
It has a little to do with what I am now doing, but I could see that another degree would open up more doors for future advancement. I guess you could say it was a stepping stone.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
3 Sep 06
I have an AS in Business Admin which has nothing to do with what I am doign right now. It also has nothing to do with my current major - Interactive Media Design with a minor in programming.
• United States
28 Aug 06
yes i do hope to find a job of my field which is nursing.
@1summer (274)
• United States
25 Aug 06
Probably different for everyone, but for me, yes, whatever I studied did help me in the working world.
@maevic (819)
• Bahrain
2 Sep 06
In my other major subjects which I took on my 4th and 5th year in Engineering, YES Some of majors which includes thermodynamics, kinetics which are very hard doesn't have anything to do with my job...
@Andy77 (430)
• United States
23 Aug 06
A degree is always useful, even if you don't get a job in the field you wanted. I worked 34 years in education and my degrees are in English and Education. I really used them!
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
22 Aug 06
There is a big gap between practice and precept. Most of the books we studied (except history, english literature) are all outdated by the time we come out of college. World is moving so fast, it is better to make internet-based study for all college students.
@lisamantz (141)
• United States
22 Aug 06
Yes, actually, business major, concentration in HR. Now working for an insurance broker, dealing with benefits, individuals, COBRA... etc etc. Yet, most of my friends who went to school right out of high school did NOT get jobs in their fields, many have gone back to school to do what the really WANT to do.
@swolecat (1277)
• United States
23 Aug 06
Almost all colleges and universities say they want to recruit more low-income students and make sure they graduate, but which are actually doing it? The colleges do not have to report the graduation rates of their low-income students