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Posted on 1/8/19 at 8:07 am
Posted on 1/8/19 at 8:07 am
I've always wanted to be a writer. So I went to college for an English major. Halfway through I realized that having an English degree wasn't going to help me sell books, so I dropped out. A decade later, I started out trying to work as a freelance technical writer. Now that's a full time job.
What about you?
What about you?
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Posted on 1/8/19 at 9:12 am to heatnikki
Finance and Management double major
But for real, mgmt was a fricking easy as and basically I got it because I took enough credits.
But for real, mgmt was a fricking easy as and basically I got it because I took enough credits.
This post was edited on 1/8/19 at 9:13 am
Posted on 1/8/19 at 9:54 am to heatnikki
Doubled in Managerial Finance and Banking and Finance
Posted on 1/8/19 at 10:14 am to heatnikki
Cybersecurity
Posted on 1/8/19 at 10:21 am to heatnikki
Management. It was easy. Should have done some variation of what the above two posters did. Your success as a manager has very little to do with your education in management, IMO. Learn yourself up on banking and finance, and get in the right position, you'll be fine.
By pure luck, I did the opposite and it worked out. Got my management degree, but after a couple years of spinning my wheels, I got a job managing a bank exec's side business. I've been able to learn a lot more about financials by just spending time with him.
By pure luck, I did the opposite and it worked out. Got my management degree, but after a couple years of spinning my wheels, I got a job managing a bank exec's side business. I've been able to learn a lot more about financials by just spending time with him.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 10:56 am to prostyleoffensetime
Management. Lots of business majors in here....
Posted on 1/8/19 at 11:46 am to heatnikki
Economics BA and Political Science BA
Posted on 1/8/19 at 11:55 am to heatnikki
I ended up with an English degree as well because I wanted to coach.
I'm in construction now
I'm in construction now
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:51 pm to heatnikki
Poli Sci...
Then MBA. It was ...odd...going from writing pages and pages for a test and not knowing if you had the answer to knowing exactly the answer
Now im in analytics
Then MBA. It was ...odd...going from writing pages and pages for a test and not knowing if you had the answer to knowing exactly the answer
Now im in analytics
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:56 pm to heatnikki
Back then it was majorettes but not sure you could get a degree in in.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:00 pm to heatnikki
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Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:16 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Management. It was easy. Should have done some variation of what the above two posters did. Your success as a manager has very little to do with your education in management, IMO. Learn yourself up on banking and finance, and get in the right position, you'll be fine.
By pure luck, I did the opposite and it worked out. Got my management degree, but after a couple years of spinning my wheels, I got a job managing a bank exec's side business. I've been able to learn a lot more about financials by just spending time with him.
I learned literally 0 of what I do in the real world, in college.
I don't think I use a single thing of what I learned in college on the Finance and Management side. Honestly, I'd say the school really didn't prepare me that well (not like that their problem) and I used literally 0 of their resources to land where I am. And when I did go to them at first while in college they were not nearly as prepared for the side of the business I wanted to be in.
The only thing I learned was time management and that was how to wake up for an 8 am class after boozing heavily the night before.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:18 pm to I Bleed Garnet
If you don't mind, how did people use their Business Majors?
or majors in general?
or majors in general?
Posted on 1/8/19 at 1:30 pm to heatnikki
Photography and History
Posted on 1/8/19 at 2:19 pm to heatnikki
Someone talked me into a Communications degree saying it was just as good as a business degree.
It wasn't.
What I do now I learned on my own and has almost nothing to do with my degree.
It wasn't.
What I do now I learned on my own and has almost nothing to do with my degree.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 2:49 pm to heatnikki
Marketing.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:05 pm to heatnikki
I earned my BA in Criminal Justice. I worked as a Probation and Parole Officer before going back for Computer Programming. I'm getting my MBA with emphasis on Data Analytics now.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 3:47 pm to heatnikki
Started in Marine Biology but then went to Criminal Law.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 4:32 pm to heatnikki
Electrical Engineering. It has served me well.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 6:23 pm to heatnikki
Biochemistry and mathematics
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