What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:15 last edited by
Just curious. Picking up anecdotal data to test a hypothesis.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:17 last edited by
I got a BSEE and used the BS instead of the EE.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:41 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
I got a BSEE and used the BS instead of the EE.
Why EE?
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:44 last edited by
I was good at math and science and my dad worked as an EE. (though his degree was in physics)
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:44 last edited by
Fair enough.
I studied Environmental Science. I do... whatever the hell it is I do. Writing stuff I guess.
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I was good at math and science and my dad worked as an EE. (though his degree was in physics)
wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:45 last edited byMy maternal grandfather and uncle were also engineers.
Paternal GF and uncle were machinist/inventor types
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 04:48 last edited by
My family's all over in terms of profession.
My mom was a social worker and my dad was a teacher. My dad's siblings' professions are: landscaper, priest, and insurance(?). My mom's siblings' are: merchant mariner, army ranger, watercolor painter.
Grandparents on my mom's side were a judge and a teacher. Grandparents on my dad's side were a typewriter salesman and a secretary for some sub-director at DOT.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 08:00 last edited by
Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 12:21 last edited by
Business (BBA and MBA). I work in IT.
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Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 12:51 last edited by@xenon said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
When I was doing that I was once asked what the hardest part about my job is. I said “explaining to my mom what it is that I do”.
“Don’t make me repeat myself”
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 12:52 last edited by
Double major. BS-MT and BS-Biology. I lacked one course for a triple major, BS-Chemistry.
Big whoop. Don't remember enough chemistry to mix a decent martini...
I was, and still dabble at, being a professional lab rat.
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@xenon said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
When I was doing that I was once asked what the hardest part about my job is. I said “explaining to my mom what it is that I do”.
wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 13:50 last edited by@jon-nyc said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
@xenon said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
When I was doing that I was once asked what the hardest part about my job is. I said “explaining to my mom what it is that I do”.
I remember a commercial I saw once, I don’t remember what they were selling, but they had consultants there.
COMPANY: thank you for coming and looking at our company. So what are your conclusions?
CONSULTANTS: you need to make more money!
COMPANY: OK, sounds good! How do we do that?
CONSULTANTS: oh, our firm doesn’t tell you how to do it. We just tell you what you need to do!!!
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@jon-nyc said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
@xenon said in What Was Your College Major? What Did Your Career Turn Out to Be?:
Computer engineering, econ then MBA.
I’m a management consultant now. Describing what that is would likely make it sound even more vague.
When I was doing that I was once asked what the hardest part about my job is. I said “explaining to my mom what it is that I do”.
I remember a commercial I saw once, I don’t remember what they were selling, but they had consultants there.
COMPANY: thank you for coming and looking at our company. So what are your conclusions?
CONSULTANTS: you need to make more money!
COMPANY: OK, sounds good! How do we do that?
CONSULTANTS: oh, our firm doesn’t tell you how to do it. We just tell you what you need to do!!!
wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 14:49 last edited by@taiwan_girl a consultant is someone who asks to borrow your watch and then tells you what time it is.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 14:54 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 15:03 last edited by
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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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 15:10 last edited by
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...
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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 15:36 last edited by
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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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...
wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 15:38 last edited by@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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wrote on 6 Jan 2021, 15:48 last edited by
Computer science -> software developer -> bioinformatician
