are our studies any way helpful or related to job you are doing?

YES! I think our studies are helpful to the job that we are doing. I have studied German and during my practise I was invited to become a teacher.And now I am a teacher of German!!!

Yeah, many times and in my places it is even worst although one already finish a lot of course their is less opportunity to work as many employer do not like to hire newly graduates and then the nepotism is very rampant..In my case i finish business courses but need to work in health field which is definitely unrelated field.

it depends how you percieve it....

Hi Ravich, I can completely sympathise with you on this since I am in the same position. I did a Bioarchaeology course at university, mostly because I didn't know what else to do, and since I have graduated I have been looking for office jobs because I discovered I don't actually like archaeology! One good thing that came from the course was that I work a day a week in a museum voluntarily, but that is mostly data entry work rather than anything I did on my course, especially since it has mostly been flint and ceramics which I chose not to cover at university! These days I really think I should have done psychology, and might go back if I ever save up enough to do so, but the course I did - completely useless !! All the best, Dranz

I love my computer. I wanted to become graduate in computer science.But what a fate i have got.Now i am a pharmacist. and still cant lose my interest from the computer.Now i am searching anything in internet that can pay me satisfactorily.whether i have no such interest from my own study related job.I wish i could be a programmer right now. :(( :((

hi,there,I am afraid I hold the same view with you.My major was physiscs in university,and when I graduated ,of course I wouldn't find a job in that field.Nowaydays,a master degree of physics can let me find a decent job.So I change my goal,I learn ecnomics myself.And now,I think my decision is right. The knowledge itself is of little use for me now.But I believe that the way to study is the most thing we got

I am. I have a degree in political science, and yet now I am a teacher in a primary school, teaching language. I don't think I do not do justice to my degree, to what I learn, because even though I unable to work in a field that I studied, still what I have studied has contributed me to be a good teacher through the process of learning that I have been through before I become a teacher. Its not whether your occupation related to your filed of studies, but more to what you do with your life with the knowledge that you have. I do not think that learning only occur during in the class or through formal learning process, but your journey through that process is also a process of learning too.

I have two part-time jobs. One as a cashier at the lcoal dry cleaners (also considering a "customer service" gig) and the other as a stocksperson at Macy's. Most of the classes I'm taking in school right now have absolutely NOTHING to do with my jobs and responsibilities at work. THe only connection I can make that I can think of is that I am taking Public Speaking right now,and it's actually helping me sharpen my communication skills; it's making me more at ease for chit-chatting with strangers and giving coherent answers. That's about it, though. I'm taking Poetry, English lit, Public Speaking, Greek Mythology, and Public Speaking.

I'm a law graduate but my main source of income is from real estate.In no way except a miniscule part of my law education is helping me in my job.I've spent many an hour thinking about it.But ultimately reconciled myself to accepting what life offers me.

Hi ravich... I am doing my graduation final year. I have never experienced such a situation coz i din't joined any job. Well pursuing graduation in one field and working in other field makes person's life horrible as he doesn't any thing about his job and what he knows he can't apply to his job.

Hi,yes ,ravi,i too had the same problem.I completed my post graduation in Agriculture,specialization in Genetics and plant breeding,but now i am working in marketing of pesticide.Every day,there is tensions in sales,collections...but there is no relavent to agriculture subject which i supposed to give suggestions to farmers on food crops farming.

Hi Ravich, I graduated from my university with a Liberal Arts degree and even though I am not working in the field that I studied, I found that my University education has helped to prepare me to work in any field that I choose since I have proven that to myself that I am capable of learning and applying new knowledge to whatever I am working on. I do think it is different for individuals that graduate in a field very specific to that field like engineering or like yourself, electronics and then find themselves working in something entirely different. Maybe you feel you are not applying your knowledge of electronics or communications but maybe if you look at it differently such as software applications and testing must be done on something electronic, you needed to apply your communication skills, well I guess that would be obvious, to anyone you were in contact with while at work or getting the job. But I do understand what you are saying and how frustrating it is to think you spent all this time and energy learning something and then not to be able to apply it to your employment but maybe you will find something further down the future that would let you use those skills.

the basic foundation of an Engineering jobs are all related with each other. I think our first two years in college are almost the same with all Engineering degree. If your job is not related to your course, then find the right one. But I guess, you don't have a choice right now since it is very hard to find a new job. My advice, stay on your job for a while and develop some experience. Its a good bargain later on when you decided to find a better job.gud luck.