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So the thread about "respectable jobs" made me wonder about this. Back when I was getting a degree in English, everybody said, "what are you going to do with that?" Now I work in publishing (which is definitely related to my degree) doing web design stuff (which isn't so much), and I really like it. Do you have a job that relates to what you studied in school? Do you want one?

No, I'm not, and it's killing me. I seriously feel like dying inside if I do stupid jobs I'm not interested in. It feels like giving up, that my life is on the wrong track, and that I'll just amount to nothing. Sorry for the depressing answer.

...ish? Trained in IT, got a few jobs in the field, then realized it really wasn't for me, busted back down to data entry for a while, then started looking to get into IM. I'm not in a "pure" IM job now, but I am utilizing a lot of IM know-how, and I love the job, so.

The way I look at it, of the many many many many many changes I've made in my life, both geographically and professionally, each move has been calculated to somehow better my lot in life (either personally, or professionally or both, even though it may not always look like that, to those looking in from the outside.

When I was younger, I was very much the black-and-white thinker of "This is what I will DOOOOOO with my life," but Life often disagrees with sentiments like that. (Men make plans, and God laughs, &c.)

Bottom line? As long as you're fairly happy (and even if you're not, try to think of it as a learning/character-building experience), it's really not the end of the world, if you don't end up achieving your ~one burning goal~ that you had when you started Uni. The world outside of the educational system just does not operate that way. Real Life is a lot more interesting that way!

Well, point is I'm not fairly happy. I'm pretty miserable. I'm one of those people who can't really separate who I am from what I do - for me those two things are connected. I try to see it as a learning experience,but I'm pretty much at the end of my optimism.I don't feel it's getting better in any way, I feel like I'm stagnating and feel stuck.

Frankly, I preferred Uni to Real Life.

AYRT

I'm so sorry you're in that situation. :( I've definitely had periods like that, and it's an awful feeling. I hope an awesome job finds you soon.

Thank you for understanding and your kind words...

I'm a Database Admin (University setting keeping constituent data up to date and stuff) with an Information Technology degree, so technically I'm working in my field. However my focus while getting the degree was more in web design - which at this point I probably don't want to do full time because while I have the coding skills I totally suck at creative design (I can make it function and be accessible to all / I can't make it pretty...). -

Awesome! What kinds of stuff do you do in publishing?

I'm an English major myself, and for a year I went and taught chilluns in Korea. I would definitely say my English degree helped me there, ahaha.

On the other hand, I have some training in foreign languages, too. I minored in French and Arabic, the former with the idea to do some kind of service work. I'm still debating on applying to Army ROTC to help fund the grad degree I'm doing right now.

AYRT

I work on quality assurance for a publisher that creates databases students use for research, so it's a lot of identifying website/design/data issues and helping to figure out what went wrong. Which sounds pretty boring, but it's like detective work. :)

Good luck with your grad degree! What are you doing it in?

That's kinda neat. Like forensic computer science, or something.

Political Communication. So far I am less than enchanted with it, mostly because there are very few political communication courses actually being offered atm.

Half the reason I'm going for my specific degree is the jobs available for it all sound like stuff I want to do, so fingers crossed, yes.

However, I'm currently also working a shitty part-time job to pay for that degree.

I am, and I'm fairly surprised that I am. I overspecialized as an undergrad, and finding jobs in theatre is awful in every department, so I'm shocked that just under a year after graduating I'm actually working as a theatrical dramaturg.

Theater major high five! I'm a dresser and wardrobe assistant, though honestly that was... not what I studied, but I'm surprised I was able to get anything to put on my resume at all.

Yep! I went to college for civil engineering, and now I'm an EIT (engineer in training) for the state transportation department. It's great! :D

(But then, engineering degrees exist to get those jobs and those jobs exist just for engineering degrees. There aren't many disciplines of engineering that don't have specific jobs associated with them.)

Same here, sort of! I majored in civil engineering undergrad, worked my way through grad school as a structural engineer, and am now working my way towards my PE in structural engineering.

I think the fact that civil engineering as a major is so broad but then everyone specializes once they get out. I'm doing structural, I have friends in transportation, and more friends in environmental.

I absolutely love my job too!

No because I ended up a horrible student :( I wish I did though! If only I graduated uni, haha.

yes! and i just started last friday. i'm so excited to be started and i love it so it's great. (it's early childhood education btw) i'd been looking for almost a year and a half so it was a huge relief.

Publishers unite! I'm working in Editorial, and it's pretty much THE English major fulfilled. Love it.

Not technically, but what I learned in college comes in handy sometimes. I would like a job that is more related, but it's practically impossible.

I studied to work with horses and/or cattle. Did work on a stud farm a few years, too.

Now I work with profile design on sportsocks and knitted hats. It's less backbreaking and I get to sit in a warm office.

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