What is your degree in?

[Drummah]

Graphic Design, but it's a college diploma. Working in the field for 2 years.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I'm going for a Ph.D. in Sociology with a minor in Social Psychology to do research.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Philosophy and then planning to move onto Law.

 

[DigitalLight]

Nursing. And a Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing.

But now I'm studying Digital Media.

 

[Adam Galli]

No degree. I have a certificate and licence for Emergency Medical Technician- Basic and a certificate for Paramedic (one more set of tests to take before I can get my licence to practice medicine as a paramedic). My plan is to become a firefighter/medic somewhere in the US.

 

[Kefo]

Currently getting my Bachelor of Technology(Biotechnology). I intend to accidentally create something that will probably kill/save us all

 

[Chaosweaver]

Bachelor of Arts (Applied Linguistics) and Bachelor of Psychology.

Might do some postgrad one day, but not anytime soon.

 

[x0ny]

Did a maths and computer science degree 3 years ago.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Still in High School but I am considering one in History.

 

[solidstatemind]

I'm curious as to what my fellow escapists have degrees in. I am currently working om my Bachelor's degree in English, I intend to teach High School.

What is your degree? Or what subject do you intend to attain one in? And, what do you intend to do with it?

I hate to be a cynical bastard, but there are several people on this thread who are being less than truthful, I fear.

Me? I'm a software design engineer, but my degrees are in completely unrelated fields: Abnormal Psychology and Forensic Science. I originally had plans on pursuing a JD and a PhD, but I received a job offer that was just too lucrative. (I've been working in IT since 1988, and in fact, it's how I put myself through school.)

 

[nonl33t m4st3r]

History BA with a minor in Military Science.

 

[Cerzelo]

Doing Bsc Human and Medical science, next year will be starting my masters in drug research and development (R&D).

 

[Penguinness]

Last year doing a BSc in Games Design. I get to walk out with pretty much nothing and an industry in the UK that's cutting staff in huge quantities or closing altogether =D. It should be fine though, just prepared to work any job I can get while building up a portfolio to apply a few months down the line I guess.

 

[AlphaEcho]

Masters in graphics design and history.

 

[Toriver]

B.A. in Political Science (comparative politics concentration) with minors in Spanish and History. Yet, I am working as an elementary/junior high English teacher in Japan. Go figure.

Well, actually I do know how that happened. Unless you go to law school, political science has become another of the many useless degrees nowadays. Employers seem to only want business, tech or science related degrees nowadays. God help you in today's job market in America if you have anything else.

 

[coolkirb]

In the fall I shall be embarking on a bachlors degree in Public Affairs and Policy Management, not sure what specific field I will specialize in, luckily I dont have to chose till my second year.

 

[Macabre9037]

I'm curious as to what my fellow escapists have degrees in. I am currently working om my Bachelor's degree in English, I intend to teach High School.

What is your degree? Or what subject do you intend to attain one in? And, what do you intend to do with it?

I hate to be a cynical bastard, but there are several people on this thread who are being less than truthful, I fear.

Me? I'm a software design engineer, but my degrees are in completely unrelated fields: Abnormal Psychology and Forensic Science. I originally had plans on pursuing a JD and a PhD, but I received a job offer that was just too lucrative. (I've been working in IT since 1988, and in fact, it's how I put myself through school.)

I share your fear, I have found several of the degrees and jobs named to be a bit...fanciful?

 

[Trivun]

I'm in my third and final year of a BSc Mathematics at the University of Leeds. And I hate it. I won't drop out because it's my final year, and I don't want to have wasted the past three years or thousands of pounds in tuition fees. But I just want the course to be over (though thankfully all the modules I picked for this final semester are pretty interesting to me, whereas last semester everything was boring and overly difficult...).

To be honest, I wish I'd done Cinema and Photography instead (basically, film-making), but I didn't know such a course existed when I was applying for university, because my crappy high school was a grammar school and so frowned on any degree that wasn't sufficiently 'academic'. Hell, they even expected everyone to get A-Levels and go to university as a matter of course, I recall the Careers Advisor (one of the Chemistry teachers in a double-job) had a right go at one guy in my year because he didn't want to do university after his A-Levels, but to join the Army as an officer instead...

When you manage to walk into a job without a problem, you may look back at your degree in a different light ^^

Oh, believe me, walking into a job is not going to happen. Regardless of my degree. There are literally no jobs around at the moment, and the only firms hiring Maths graduates at the moment are the exact type of company I don't want to work for. Finance groups, banks, accountancy firms, actuaries, that sort of thing. I actually want to work in the games industry (and am steadily building up a portfolio to help me in that endeavour) or in the film-making industry anyway, which I'm also involved in through a university society (I was filming a short advert piece for a play today, I'm acting and helping crew a short film on Sunday, and I'm lined up as producer for another short film within the next few weeks).

Overall, I'd say doing a Cinema and Photography degree would be far more useful for my career ambitions than Maths ever will be.