Survey: Does your college degree actually apply to your current career/job?.....

You already nominated me for post of the year for this back in January.


And No.

No here, as well.

yes

Not at first. Got a BBA and started out doing data entry stuff. After grinding out a few years, I'm now a manager, so it applies a little more now.

Just to clarify, and please help me do that, if you have any ideas or opinions on the subject, but I was thinking along the lines of............"Could you execute your job efficiently today if it wasn't for what you learned in college/grad school, etc?"

I think a majority of jobs now a days will have more on the job learning but I would imagine skills I leaned in my major make my job easier like excel and whatnot

Yes, my second degree does for sure and I couldn't do what I do without it. The first degree is not directly related but helped particularly in being able to choose electives which are directly related to my job.

I don't remember a lot of what I learned in college (graduated almost 8 years ago) but I think I improved my critical thinking skills during that time, so that has certainly helped me. Hard to say if I wouldn't have learned that without college, though.

I don't think I'm used any specific skills or information that I learned directly with my job, but maybe I just practice things without knowing where I learned them.

Nope. Went in to staffing/sales. Had a poli sci degree after deciding law school wasn't worth it. Degree only helps me with random facts that come up during conversation.

Nope. I've actually never worked in the field that my degree is in.