BS in Business Administration: Marketing = 10 years in high tech marketing (SoCal, then NorCal), then a 13-year break to raise my daughter (with heavy volunteering requiring project management and accounting). I’ve been handling accounting and HR for a small manufacturing company for the last almost 6 years.
Me: BA in History and BS in Education (dual major) - High school history teacher (which was the plan)
Husband: BS in Marketing: E-commerce for a major company. What amazes me is that when we married in 1990 - he couldn’t USE a computer - his whole industry is something that didn’t exist when he/we went to college. Just goes to show you never know what is coming
See the link below for a comprehensive study prepared by folks at Georgetown that relates college major to earnings. Not exactly the same thing but still interesting and likely provides information about major to career as well.
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/
@massmom:
I have to say I am jealous, love the path to being a brewer, probably a hard way to make a career but it certainly is interesting (haven’t made beer in a long time, but it was a lot of fun:).
Me: Started as chem major where organic told me in no uncertain terms to run away, ended up as Comp Sci. Got into a job through a kind of backdoor (job req in their ‘miscellaneous book’) in a field that was still in relative infancy (software QA testing), which evolved over the years into a job that is as much business as technical, has all kinds of elements to it
My wife; MBA in public accounting, never used it, and I do the taxes:)
Me: Journalism major, jobs were in public relations, advertising, briefly at a newspaper while between better paying jobs (lol) and then marketing
Hubby: Dual Biology & English major, medical school, now a doctor.
Like Elena, PhD in clinical,psychology. Along the way, worked at a college, hospital, inpatient, residential, day treatment program, and mostly private practice. One needs to reinvent oneself every so often.
B.A. – History/Political Science > M.Litt. – International Security Studies > J.D. > 15 year career in real estate/corporate/transactional law