BA in Biology with a minor in Chemistry! Yep! I teach High School Science.
@Mel2421- shout out for HS teachers - especially at the end of the year!!
Thanks! @toowonderful you have no idea.
@Mel2421 - I teach HS History. I have every idea 
I am using a whip and a chair to keep my seniors on task this month
Hehe! @toowonderful I teach at the Alternative School and mine are hanging from the rafters. It is an adventure I tell you. Enjoy the rest of the year.
French major here <3
My degree is in Computer Science with Project Management certification but ended up in Finance. Which means I was the organized one with schedules and plans to get D through the Application/Auditions season. My Husbands in Logistics, but somehow we ended up with 3 kids all in the Arts: an MT kid, One in Graphic Arts/Animation, and a Dancer. Must be the result of recessive genes?
BFA in Graphic Arts here, older son BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing with a history minor, younger son BFA in MT with a Global Theatre and Ethnic Studies minor. Their dad, Criminal Justice.
Another English degree holder here! I was also a secondary education major, which I officially used for a grand total of 3 years teaching middle and high school English and journalism until D1 was born. (This may be why I can’t seem to post anything here without editing it, lol.)
Besides teaching childbirth classes (part part-time) for about 4 years and signing some other homeschoolers’ assessments in our state every summer for the past 12 years, I’ve not been monetarily compensated since D1 (now 19) was born. Is my degree still useful and valuable to me? Definitely–and in many ways!
Back to MT: Some programs don’t list what their alumni have done. Maybe it’s for the reasons other posters have given, and so they don’t want that to be the focus. I think most programs talked about here (as well as others, I would imagine) can point to alumni success and connections.
Part of this discussion reminds me of a conversation I had with a neighbor when my D was going through the audition process last year. I was telling her about programs D was considering, and she expressed surprise that D didn’t apply to her school, a near Ivy. I explained why, but she dismissed my explanation with an incredulous look, a head shake, and a short laugh.
“I’m a school snob!” she proudly–and more than a bit disdainfully–confessed.
I looked around our upper middle class neighborhood. None of the rest of the neighbors had degrees from an Ivy school. She’s a single mom of 1, but several of us were single income families with multiple children. (Past tense because we’ve since moved…) People carry various loads of debt and choose to spend money in different ways, so that doesn’t really prove anything other than people seemed to have the same level of living, at least superficially. On top of that, though, I happen to know a few people who work with her. She has a very nice job, but these people are the same age she is and hold as high or higher positions (one quite prestigious), and they all went to colleges not spoken about much or at all anywhere on CC.
“Hmm,” I nodded slowly, then just dropped it as I thought about these facts and about other people I’ve seen in my life who show that outcomes aren’t based on where one went to school or, shockingly, if one even went to college. I also thought about the stimulating, intellectual, educated discussions I’ve had with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. I know percentages might show a different story, but, hey, I was an English major, so anecdotes resonate with me. 
I’m aware that where my D attends doesn’t have the same reputation as the tippy top programs, although it’s connected and has quality training, and even though we love it. I’m hopeful that D will continue to take advantage of the opportunities there and go for her dreams with all that she has–whatever that means to her now and after college. That would be my same hope no matter where she attended. In any case, I already see the fruit of her labors intellectually, artistically, and even physically under this “not tippy top” program’s training and guidance, and I’m very pleased.
Am I the only one here who first studied Theatre and then later went back for a second degree (Engineering)? I know that experience has influenced my thinking about Ds process, for better and/or for worse. I speak from experience when I say it’s not easier to “find the $” a second time.
Any regrets, @MomCares? I would guess that you value your theatre experiences in the same way you value your engineering experience–different phase of life, different choices, none better or worse than the other.
My key regret is that “back in the day” I could fully fund my second degree by working part time as a draftsman, yet I don’t think many part-time workers these days earn enough to cover unsubsidized degrees (little to no financial aid for second undergrad degrees). So our kids’ choice of degree somehow feels more final than mine was.
That said, I was among very few Engineers who could comfortably “perform” for auditoriums of thousands, which served me very well over the years.
I’m with you @MomCares. I worked my way through college and law school and came out with 0 debt. 0. Almost unheard of now.
I have a BS in Electrical Engineering and a MBA in Marketing. I never truly loved my jobs. So I have this smart, right-brained daughter who is passionate about MT. Everyone has their own path and I am just glad that I can support her to pursue her passion.
BA/JD here who practiced for 8 years and has spent the last 20 years caring for elderly parents and raising 6 children. Husband is a writer, a print journalist. Think about that for a minute. He knew exactly what he wanted to do since he was 12 and has worked most of his career with the Assocuated Press, on countless high profile stories. And where is he now at age 52? Well, he’s wondering about his future. His hours stink, as does his schedule. But he always loved what he did, was passionate about it, until the last year or two, when things really started to change and there haven’t been enough bodies to allow him to freely pursue his craft. He’s now in an office many days, all day, writing stories by phone. How could we have predicted this turn of events? Just saying, folks, that there is no crystal ball, there is no telling where your child will go with the education and tools provided. Sure, by some standards he would’ve done better as an uneducated fireman, like one or two of his classmates. He would’ve made more money and been RETIRED with a pension. But he would not have been happy every morning heading off to work. So how do you measure success? How can you know what will happen in your field? Did I waste my education staying home and guiding my 6 children? I don’t think so. Although I’m now trying to figure out my next chapter. That’s another story so I’ll spare you :)). But aside from our MT daughter, we have one college-aged son studying Econ/political science, another studying Spanish and ???, both in state schools, and three others in middle school and elementary school, one is a dancer, one a swimmer, one a tennis player. We are constantly surprised by the differences in our kids. We always wonder where this MT kid came from … My husband has a lovely voice and dances in the parent dance at our studio … Maybe she got it all from him! Are there MT programs out there that would take a good looking 52 year old who runs, loves books and the opera??? It could just be his next career move!!! :))))
@HappyDancer98 my husband is also a journalist and also knew what he wanted to do since he was in middle school! So funny!
@HappyDancer98 When people ask me where my MT son got his talent, I always respond “from me of course!” especially his dancing :))
@HappyDancer98 Uneducated firemen? Wow. There are so many people in my life that are the opposite of this stereotype.
@hopecladwell I felt like @HappyDancer98 was saying that one or two of her husband’s actual classmates are actual uneducated firemen who have done better than he has, not perpetuating a stereotype. No?
Maybe by uneducated she just meant “lack of a college degree”. I don’t think it was meant as an insult.