What did you study in college?

J.Quondam · Apr 17, 2022

Wait...
Was I supposed to study in college?

Gnosistika · Apr 17, 2022

I got my fine arts degree 24 years ago, I always wanted to be an artist. Then a year after I got my degree I went into teaching martial arts, then soon after ended up in the security cluster. Was a CPO for many years only to end up being a project coordinator at a telecommunications company. Then about 10 years ago my team and I were retrenched and I fell back on teaching much needed specialised safety and selfdefence in the rural areas, then Covid happened. So now I am a house husband/consultant while my wife's career is skyrocketing. I still haven't produced any fine arts

BookTenTiger · Apr 17, 2022

FitzTheRuke said:
Well, right out of highschool I jumped in with both feet into an engineering program. I helped tutor other students in calculus in exchange for their notes from lectures, during which I often worked on my D&D campaigns. After a particularly boring hydraulics class, I started questioning why I wanted to do it.

I've always been an artist with a gift for math - torn in two directions. Too much of a dreamer to pay attention in class, but good enough at tests to get by. I'm also terrible at doing what I'm told.

In the end, I bought a struggling Comic & Game store at the age of 19, and with no business experience whatsoever, I learned as I went and turned it around. 28 years later, I do well enough to support a family of four, five employees, and get to play D&D on weekends as part of my job. (Though not for the past two years. Business has been good during that time, but it's not near as much fun. A lot of headaches, but it's hard to complain when compared to many jobs.)

I'd say dropping out worked out fine for me.

After "only" about 20 years, my mom stopped asking me when I'd get a "real" job!

That's an awesome story. Where is your game store?

DeviousQuail · Apr 17, 2022

BookTenTiger said:
I've spent this last year being a stay at home dad for my newborn!

Nice. The growth from 1 to 2 is incredible. Enjoy it because once they learn how to say no things start to get tricky.

BookTenTiger · Apr 17, 2022

I do want to go back to school and get Masters in Education. Then maybe in ten years get a PhD in Education. I am very interested in the research side of it.

Although it would also be fun to get a Master's in Literature... I love talking about books!

FitzTheRuke · Apr 17, 2022

BookTenTiger said:
That's an awesome story. Where is your game store?

Just outside of Vancouver, in Canada.

Hourglass Comics and Games

(Which is where you will find, that while I am very good at selling comics and an excellent DM, I have no skills whatsoever on designing and maintaining a website). Also, no interest, which might help if it were) otherwise.

Hex08 · Apr 17, 2022

I went right to college after high school with no idea what I wanted to do, I chose my university because my girlfriend was going there. I majored in getting drunk and was eventually shown the door. I would go back on and off again but never completed a degree. Finally, in the mid-2000s I realized I was tired of sales and went back to school again. This time it was all online and I got my Bachelors in Network Administration I also almost completed a second degree in Network Security. While I never used my networking skills in a job I have spent time in Tech/IT fields but not currently.

billd91 · Apr 17, 2022

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...

Richards · Apr 17, 2022

My undergraduate degree was in Mathematics at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. It was originally going to be Mathematics Education with the thought of becoming a math teacher, but I was on a 4-year Air Force scholarship and during my freshman year the Air Force decided they were no longer going to award scholarships for Mathematic Education...I could either switch to a straight Math degree or pay my own way through college. Suddenly straight Math seemed the way to go - I figured I could always pick up an education degree later on. (Spoiler: I never did.) But that worked out okay; I graduated, got commissioned, and spent the next 20 years in the ICBM career field: starting out as a missileer pulling alerts at Minot AFB ND and from there sticking to various jobs in the ICBM codes field. When I retired, they converted my billet to civilian as I left and then hired me to replace myself. I've been an Air Force civilian since 2007 and have enjoyed it. (My first decision as a civilian: no more shaving my face! I don't necessarily want a beard, but if that's the price I pay for not having to shave it's well worth it.)

I also, along the way, picked up a Master's in Business Administration, something I didn't really want and have never really used, but not getting a Master's as a Captain was a pretty good way at the time of not making Major and I didn't want to shoot myself in the foot. And the Air Force paid for most of it, so all I had to do was attend the classes at night and during weekends and put in the work, so it would have been foolish for me not to have done it.

Johnathan