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No, but that's because my job isn't in my major's field. I majored in sociology and even if I took a social work job, I would've still needed to learn how the job works,. which only happens ON THE JOB! There was no college class for this, and there certainly wouldn't be.
That's the problem with college; sitting in a classroom in no way prepared me for how the working world works. Maybe if I majored in business...?
I work in freight logistics and everything was trainable. The closest major would be international business, logistics, or supply chain management.
College just teaches you to study, take tests etc. Nothing to do with navigating your way/networking through the workplace and developing connections with people in power (which is all that seems to matter in most places now).
College is USELESS for the most part. Its just a way to check off the resume job application that you have a degree. Loved my college years, but I didn't gain much of anything from it.
In terms of developing "Skills/experience" in college.. Mehhh. most jobs in corporate can be learned within a few months with proper on the job training and from there you continue to build on that foundation from there. Of course, most employers want someone else to foot the bill to train their employees
Speak for yourself. I learned a lot more in college than how to take tests or to study. Learned that stuff in primary school. You are once again making broad assumptions that all students attend college to "work in corporate". Hardly reality. There are many technical, scientific, and professional disciplines universities prepare students for that have nothing to do with your knee jerk "evil" corporate. You didn't "gain much of anything" from college? Attitude going into it and coming out of it matters. You already knew it all before you started and no one could convince you otherwise. Closed minds don't learn much. You are just getting a little more bitter and resentful as time goes on because no one else recognizes your superiority.
IMHO, unless you are getting your degree in a very specialized field, college is meant to lay the foundation for employment and life. It teaches you to problem solve, be self reliant, be efficient, manage your time and interact with your peers.
When I'm looking at hiring potential employees, these are the traits that I'm seeking.
I majored in accounting, but my main professor always told us it would be different in the field. That's to be expected. It doesn't help that I ended up working for the state as an auditor. I had one auditing class, and only one chapter touched on governmental auditing. But without my college education, my current job would have not been possible. I also had to work hard in college, I didn't just breeze through. So I am not afraid to ask questions and I knew I'd have to work hard in whatever job I ended up doing.
I did work in cost accounting for about two years and I felt like I was more prepared for that knowledge wise.
College just teaches you to study, take tests etc. Nothing to do with navigating your way/networking through the workplace and developing connections with people in power (which is all that seems to matter in most places now).
College is USELESS for the most part. Its just a way to check off the resume job application that you have a degree. Loved my college years, but I didn't gain much of anything from it.
In terms of developing "Skills/experience" in college.. Mehhh. most jobs in corporate can be learned within a few months with proper on the job training...
Yes, yes, yes. This is exactly what I mean.
I've always believed that college should be part classroom and part hands on. Internships at a company should be half of the graduation requirements.
I feel my degree prepared me about as well as it could for my career. There are certain things you can't really learn until you're the doing job, but everything else was pretty good. But, I also don't see college as only about career - I also value in the liberal arts educational traits - many of those may not directly apply to a job/career field but do teach you about thinking, the world, etc. I've found it all valuable in one way or another.
Long years of hard work and living right at the edge of financial insolvency, did help prepare me for my future life, regardless of how much I benefited from the courses I studied.
Yes. Majored in electrical engineering, barely graduated and spent a few years starting up steel and paper mills. It was like being in an EE lab for 10 hours a day and I loved it. Once we started a family, I went back to school for a masters in business where I did great and spent the next 30 years with the same company running one process or another.
I’ll likely retire at the end of 1Q21. I started working at 13 so next year, I’ll have 50 years in total working including 36 with the same company.
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