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What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?

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  • MikM Offline
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    Mik
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    If you don't have a solution, there's good money to be made in perpetuating the problem. Seen it done many times. Often consultants of that sort are brought in to rubber stamp what the C levels already wanted to do, but provide them cover.

    I started in journalism and ended up in programming. I used both to great effect in my career.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      Major was photography.

      Dropped out after 2 years when the silver market went crazy in the early 1980s. All my film, and paper prices skyrocketed upward. I was also becoming better and better at programming computers.

      Started my own custom software company in 1983 at age 21. Also learned how to repair Apple and IBM PCs. By 1985 I was de-soldering the ram chips on a 4 layer Mac 128 motherboard and installing higher capacity chips to upgrade it to 512k. Never looked back. by late 90s I was making my own power supllies and even made a water cooled, digital camera for astronomy.

      My dad was not exactly excited about me wanting to be a photographer. He knew the prospects for long term, stable employment were not great for such a career.

      He (and the supplies price increases) gently pushed me out of a degree in photography and into computer science and electronics. A day does not go by without me me being thankful for that.

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        Jolly
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        #17

        At one point, we had a guy hired to oversee Joint Commission concerns for nine hospitals, particularly building, physical plant and infection control problems.

        One of the nurses at our place caught the guy passing off some of her forms and policies as some of his creations. After she started cobfabbing with her fellow witches and wizards, they determined the guy had been stealing ideas from everybody, changing up letterheads and then passing them off as his own.

        Nice work, if you can get it...

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        • LWL Offline
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          #18

          Piano Pedagogy. Currently, I do insurance stuff part time. I wouldn't say I've ever had a career, but I did use my degree for a few years teaching, and could always go back to it.

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            At one point, we had a guy hired to oversee Joint Commission concerns for nine hospitals, particularly building, physical plant and infection control problems.

            One of the nurses at our place caught the guy passing off some of her forms and policies as some of his creations. After she started cobfabbing with her fellow witches and wizards, they determined the guy had been stealing ideas from everybody, changing up letterheads and then passing them off as his own.

            Nice work, if you can get it...

            MikM Offline
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            Mik
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            @jolly said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

            At one point, we had a guy hired to oversee Joint Commission concerns for nine hospitals, particularly building, physical plant and infection control problems.

            One of the nurses at our place caught the guy passing off some of her forms and policies as some of his creations. After she started cobfabbing with her fellow witches and wizards, they determined the guy had been stealing ideas from everybody, changing up letterheads and then passing them off as his own.

            Nice work, if you can get it...

            Healthcare oversight and regulation has been one of the top money wasting, scam-producing boondoggles of all time.

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • HoraceH Offline
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              Horace
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              #20

              Computer science -> software developer -> bioinformatician

              Education is extremely important.

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              • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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                Doctor Phibes
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                Mathematics/Physics - Joint Honours they called it. Ended up doing electrical engineering, sort of.

                I was only joking

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                • CopperC Offline
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                  #22

                  Business administration, accounting
                  software
                  coach
                  flight instructor
                  golfer

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                    So far my hypothesis has been a bit rejected in terms of degree, but the overall idea seems to be holding up.

                    Please love yourself.

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                    • MikM Mik

                      @jolly said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                      At one point, we had a guy hired to oversee Joint Commission concerns for nine hospitals, particularly building, physical plant and infection control problems.

                      One of the nurses at our place caught the guy passing off some of her forms and policies as some of his creations. After she started cobfabbing with her fellow witches and wizards, they determined the guy had been stealing ideas from everybody, changing up letterheads and then passing them off as his own.

                      Nice work, if you can get it...

                      Healthcare oversight and regulation has been one of the top money wasting, scam-producing boondoggles of all time.

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                      #24

                      @mik said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                      @jolly said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                      At one point, we had a guy hired to oversee Joint Commission concerns for nine hospitals, particularly building, physical plant and infection control problems.

                      One of the nurses at our place caught the guy passing off some of her forms and policies as some of his creations. After she started cobfabbing with her fellow witches and wizards, they determined the guy had been stealing ideas from everybody, changing up letterheads and then passing them off as his own.

                      Nice work, if you can get it...

                      Healthcare oversight and regulation has been one of the top money wasting, scam-producing boondoggles of all time.

                      Amen. And amen.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        Dance with a minor in piano. Went to an all girls arts school. Used a little after graduating but not very much. Lol

                        (We used to drink lemon juice as we were told it would make us more flexible. I will probably have no bones left when I am older. Lol)

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                        • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                          Dance with a minor in piano. Went to an all girls arts school. Used a little after graduating but not very much. Lol

                          (We used to drink lemon juice as we were told it would make us more flexible. I will probably have no bones left when I am older. Lol)

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                          @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                          Dance with a minor in piano.

                          Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                          Education is extremely important.

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                          • HoraceH Horace

                            @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                            Dance with a minor in piano.

                            Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

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                            #27

                            @horace said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                            @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                            Dance with a minor in piano.

                            Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                            I've got some of my dancing I'll send you. You'll love them!

                            I was only joking

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                              LuFins Dad
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                              #28

                              Music Ed. Was going to be a band director or go to one of the military bands...

                              The Brad

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                              • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                Dance with a minor in piano. Went to an all girls arts school. Used a little after graduating but not very much. Lol

                                (We used to drink lemon juice as we were told it would make us more flexible. I will probably have no bones left when I am older. Lol)

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                                @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                Used a little after graduating but not very much. Lol

                                For propriety’s sake, might I suggest you add a subject in front of that verb? This place is full of reprobates.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                • HoraceH Horace

                                  @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                  Dance with a minor in piano.

                                  Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                                  JollyJ Offline
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                                  Jolly
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #30

                                  @horace said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                  @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                  Dance with a minor in piano.

                                  Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                                  Had a doc tell me one time that he had put so many dollar bills in g-strings, that he probably funded at least one junior college degree...I suppose he was also invested in academics and dance.😄

                                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                  • JollyJ Jolly

                                    @horace said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                    @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                    Dance with a minor in piano.

                                    Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                                    Had a doc tell me one time that he had put so many dollar bills in g-strings, that he probably funded at least one junior college degree...I suppose he was also invested in academics and dance.😄

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                                    jon-nyc
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                                    #31

                                    @jolly

                                    Yeah, you “had a doc” that did that. Uh-huh.

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                      @jolly

                                      Yeah, you “had a doc” that did that. Uh-huh.

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                                      Jolly
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                                      @jon-nyc said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                      @jolly

                                      Yeah, you “had a doc” that did that. Uh-huh.

                                      Pathologist, actually. From Mobile.

                                      Billy retired last year...

                                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                        BS in biomedical communications (medical illustration and photography), BS in veterinary medicine, DVM ( doctor of veterinary medicine, and yes, my formal title is Dr. Jodi 😄). I worked as a medical illustrator at a medical school, I worked as an equine vet, but after kids I was a stay at home parent who did artwork on the side. I now spend at least part of each day in my studio.

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                                        • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                          @horace said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                          @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                          Dance with a minor in piano.

                                          Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                                          I've got some of my dancing I'll send you. You'll love them!

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                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #34

                                          @doctor-phibes said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                          @horace said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                          @taiwan_girl said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:

                                          Dance with a minor in piano.

                                          Do you have any videos you would like to share? I am academically interested in the art of dance.

                                          I've got some of my dancing I'll send you. You'll love them!

                                          No, you can't fool me. You didn't even major in Dance.

                                          Education is extremely important.

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