What did you study in college?

[trappedslider]

Undergrad: Political Science (which at my college was called Government) and Mathematics
Graduate: Political Science (MA), Library and Information Studies (MLS)
So, of course, I've worked in medical records/claims software for the last 25 years...

Naturally

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It wasn't till I got too sick to keep up with schooling that I figured out what I wanted to do. Upon looking into it, it would have ended in massive debt since the program is only offered at a few colleges all back east. But when I did go to college, I started out with general studies with no degree in mind just taking the entry-level classes which in my case due to learning disabilities included what many of you would consider either high school or even middle school math.

 

[TwoSix]

Started out in biomedical engineering, took a break for personal/financial reasons, then transferred and got my degree in chemistry.

So naturally, now I work in IT.

 

[payn]

I started out wanting to go Philosophy major with intention of being a teacher. Though, my battery was burned out by the time I completed my two year AA.

After about 8 years, I finally went back. I looked at my options and Communication seemed like a real good fit based on my personality and career at that point. Got my B.A. in Org. Comm and my company paid for it.

Couple years ago I went back again and got a masters of science in technical communication. This time I went into technical writing, content management, and info architecture. Interesting to me and useful for my career. Company also paid for this go around.

I am now a project manager in the intelligent buildings field. I am hoping at some point to connect with my old professors and maybe get a part time gig teaching a comm class or two. Despite my career detour, I still have a strong desire to be a teacher. When I retire I think it would be something nice to keep doing in my twilight years and fulfill that desire I have had since I was just a young lad.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

For Undergrad, I got a Bachelor's in Journalism. I had briefly and misguidedly been a poetry major before that.

For Graduate, I'm another Master's in Library and Information Science here. I just read a quote in Seanan McGuire's In Absent An Absent Dream that just about sums up why I went in for it when I couldn't make a living as a journalist and found myself in a dead-end data entry job:

"and when she grew up, she was going to be a librarian, because she couldn't imagine knowing there was a job that was all about books and not wanting to do it.”

But of course, now I work in IT and love it, so that's how that turned out. And as a result I have additional ITIL, Microsoft SharePoint, and Lean/Six Sigma certifications.

 

[nedjer]

I started out wanting to go Philosophy major with intention of being a teacher. Though, my battery was burned out by the time I completed my two year AA.

After about 8 years, I finally went back. I looked at my options and Communication seemed like a real good fit based on my personality and career at that point. Got my B.A. in Org. Comm and my company paid for it.

Couple years ago I went back again and got a masters of science in technical communication. This time I went into technical writing, content management, and info architecture. Interesting to me and useful for my career. Company also paid for this go around.

I am now a project manager in the intelligent buildings field. I am hoping at some point to connect with my old professors and maybe get a part time gig teaching a comm class or two. Despite my career detour, I still have a strong desire to be a teacher. When I retire I think it would be something nice to keep doing in my twilight years and fulfill that desire I have had since I was just a young lad.

I've been teaching for a few centuries now. Students are great, classes are fine, marking is hell - but there's always the summer holidays

 

[Cadence]

I've been teaching for a few centuries now. Students are great, classes are fine, marking is hell - but there's always the summer holidays

I'm grading papers right now :-(

 

[nedjer]

Starting to get ever so slightly concerned about the number of librarians in one place at roughly the same time.

Michael Moore: 'I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. . . . They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.'

 

[nedjer]

I'm grading papers right now :-(

May your pen never run out of red ink.

 

[gamerprinter]

I didn't actually finish college. I was only going for an A.A., so was just taking general education classes, though my interest was graphic design, and the school I went to didn't have much to offer in that field. Of the classes I'd taken, the ones I enjoyed the most were History of Western Civ 1, Art History 1, American Lit, English Lit and Philosophy, and was getting straight A's for the most part. While I enjoyed those classes, I didn't see a future in any of those specific fields, aside from becoming a teacher, which I have no interest in doing.

At everything I've done and accomplished in life, I'm self taught. I ran a graphic design/digital print studio for 22 years serving everyone from individuals to corporate and government. I've had a 15 year professional freelance illustration career, serving some of the biggest publishers, and now a publisher myself. I've done well without a degree, but wouldn't recommend it as a career learning path to pursue - still, I've done alright.

I remember after completing the map commissions I did for Brady Games, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Strategy Guide, and after getting paid, they asked, "oh, by the way, what university did you attend?" I had to laugh at that. Unlike most, clients never look at my resume, rather at my portfolio and publications.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

I'm grading papers right now :-(

I'm avoiding grading to post this (during a plan period, no less. It's been a long Monday.)
BA in English, Teaching of Secondary Education (What do you do with...?), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
MA in Teaching and Leadership (Without the Leadership endorsement. I was younger and dumber), St. Xavier University, Chicago, 2009.
MA in School Counseling (WITH the Licensed Professional Counselor endorsement. I am now older and less dumber), Lewis University, Romeoville, IL: wrapping up this summer.