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Do you have the job you always thought you would?
Just curious to know how many of you are working in a different field than what your degree is in, or even just different than what you thought you would be doing at this point. Are you happier where you are now? What brought you to the different job/career? If you're not happy, what are you doing to get there?
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Permalink Reply by Tara on -
I graduated with a degree in Engineering and am now working in banking - completely different! I think a big part of my change was not knowing what I wanted to do while I was in college, so now I'm trying to figure that out after the degree...sometimes good and sometimes bad.
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Permalink Reply by Angie on -
Yes I do ^_^ I'm working from home, which is what I've always wanted. I'm also doing Xbox Tech Support, which fits me SO well!
Plus with the extra time I have, I can practice my art (and oh holy hell have I been doing so) and start selling some pieces. ^_^ And I eventually want to work from home as an artist, or mostly as an artist with a side job like this that I really enjoy. ♥
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Permalink Reply by katrina kay on
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don't 80% or so of people work outside their field of study? i'd say that unless you're studying something career-specific like accounting or whatever, most people don't really work directly in a job that has to do with whatever they studied in college.
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Permalink Reply by Punky Jo on -
I only started working in the field of my degree recently (4 years after graduation) because I was watching Suze Orman on Oprah, and she was talking to a 20 something who didn't know what she wanted to do with her life, and was working somewhere she didn't want to be. She told her she may as well stop wasting her degree if she didn't know what she wanted to do anyway she should put it to use since she paid so much to get it.
I had an ah ha moment and started using my fashion design degree (since I didn't know what else to do with my life). I'm now starting my own business making handbags, totes, wallets etc... I LOVE IT! Although i'll still have to get a job on the side, I'm hoping that one day it'll sustain me =)
Check out the blog at punkyj.wordpress.com
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Permalink Reply by Emma on -
I have a degree in biology which I'm not using now - I have a job making web sites. I did have a job as a research biochemist after I graduated but I realised I didn't want to work in an environment where there was no guarantee of funding after the next three months, hence little job security etc.
My problem was I didn't really know what I wanted to do (still don't if I'm honest!) so I picked a degree in something I was good at that sounded interesting. If I could go back, I probably wouldn't go to University - the debts just aren't worth it. Or, I'd go back and tell my 17-year old self what a computer is. When I was 17 I thought a computer was a word processor! If I'd known then what I know now I'd have picked Computer Science or similar.
However, I am happy with where I've ended up as I enjoy what I do, so maybe I shouldn't say I'd change things (it would just have been nice if the Uni debt had felt like it was worth it!)
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Permalink Reply by Tara on
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That's exactly what happened to me...didn't know (and still don't!) what to do so I picked what I was good at. I tried to switch from engineering to a business degree but my college advisors told me to stick it out and not switch... now I really wish I had. I'd love to do something in recruiting or marketing and eventually start my own photography business.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa-Marie Hughes on -
No. I always thought I'd be a nursery teacher, but I left uni as my husband got a RA job at the other end of the country. I am a nanny now, and will go back and finish my degree next year though.
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Permalink Reply by Tina on
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I got my undergrad in English with a minor in Sociology. Then I went to grad school for a Creative Writing degree. I taught college writing classes while I went to grad school and realized that that is not what I wanted to do.
After I graduated, I decided to pursue nonprofit work. I've always been interested in social work and nonprofit organizations (took some fundamentals of social work classes in college as part of my Sociology course work), and after about a year of very active volunteering--where I developed a strong passion for volunteering and finally felt like I found my real passion--I landed a job as a Volunteer Coordinator / Administrative Assistant at a nonprofit.
So it took a lot of school and a lot of experiences, but I finally figured things out. I think that my degrees actually fit my job in a way. I work as the main point of contact for volunteers and also need to write appealing job descriptions and other correspondence for the organization, and also constantly interact with a diverse group of volunteers and clients.
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Permalink Reply by Shayna on -
My undergrad was in economics and finance, and I work in tax accounting, so no --- I knew I wanted to go into accounting while doing my undergrad, but it was more efficient to graduate a year early and go for the master's in accounting... so since I was about 20, yes, doing what I thought I would be... that said, tax is a pretty wide open field, so there are a lot of options, and paths my career could take in the future.
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