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s/o Are you USING your degree?
I'm not.
My degree is in teaching, and I am not doing that anymore.
However, I wouldn't have the job I have now without my college degree if that makes sense. It could be any B.S., or B.A, but I just have to have it.
Anyone else?
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Re: s/o Are you USING your degree?
Christmas 2011
Nope - I am a SAHM. I pretty much never "used" it even when I was working. It was a liberal arts college/degree.
Ha ha - as a funny aside, my older sister got her degree in "Children's Literature and Mythology". My dad was SOOOOO happy when I decided on my first major - Sociology - just because there was an -ology at the end. I thank my sister for making sociology an acceptable major for my lawyer father
I didn't answer the posts below, but I am using my Master's.
I have a Master's in Elementary Ed, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
My undergrad is MS Business Admin/Marketing, obviously not using that
Nope. However, I did achieve my goal of being a newspaper editor before we moved to a tiny town that didn't need an editor. I taught elementary school for 2 years before becoming a SAHM.
I never had any intention of using my political science bachelor's degree. I knew I was going to get a MA in journalism, so I got my BA in something that I loved and that interested me.
Nope. My degree is in English with a literature emphasis. I run my dad's office. He owns a masonry business. At some point, he's going to start training both DH (who is a mason) and I to take over for him.
I am considering going back and taking some basic business classes, though.
Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011
Nah, but I met my H because I used to work in my field.
ETA: I still work full time, but in a completely different field than I went to school for. I guess I use my BA in English quite a bit just for communication/writing purposes, but it's not necessary since my job is to write HTML (no grammar knowledge needed there!).
When I went to get my MA in art history I originally intended to get my PhD and become a college professor. Seeing what my DH has to go through every year to find any kind of decent job, I'm SOOOOO glad I decided to abort after I got my MA. I definitely don't have the stamina to churn out all those applications and deal with so much rejection.
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
I work PT in market research/polling, but not political polling (although my boss/friend used to work for President Clinton's pollster - she HATED the political work).
So, my BA in Politics and MPP in Public Policy basically are not being utilized right now. I was working "in the field" when I worked in government relations and education organizations, but I got screwed in the non-proft world, so I now I happily put together PowerPoints for huge money corporate clients while staying home with DD 5 out of 7 days a week.
Maybe one day I will get back to it....but we're leaving the DC area, so I might go in a completely different direction when the PT gig ends (if it does).