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Old 05-07-2007, 04:50 AM
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Does that major you took in college have to do with your current career path? I have heard people say that, after college, they ended up in a career totally unrelated to what they went to school for. ..so i just wanted to know the experiences of people on this board.
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My son, my daughter-in-law and I are all College and University graduates and we all work in our chosen field... hopes that helps...

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I'm currently working as a software developer, though I didn't need my Computer Science degree to get here. Next year I'm going back to unit to study Physics.
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I did this actually the other way around - I did not end up studying the same thing in university that I already had made a career in. I had worked in computer science (as a programmer) a little over two years before starting my major in university. As I was pretty fed up with computers - working in the field was enough, I couldn't stand studying it also - I decided to go study economics.

Although I have no idea, in what field I might be working when I finally finish my major.
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it seems that Programming is the only field that you can work on without getting a Bsc degree in Computer Science or CIS whatever... for it ... and really i don't know why but it seems any one can be a software engineer even if he studied literature or history.

anyway ... for me i wanted to be a developer since i was in my high school so although i had the chance to study pharmacology in the university and i had the chance to study any field in engineering as well (i hade a very high average in high school). i decided to follow my passion and went to the science faculty (it was then renamed to Information Technology) and i studied Computer Science as if that was not enough i got my master degree in Computer Science as well and now i am a solution developer in a company working on .Net applications development so i guess my answer is yup my career is very much related to my university major
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it seems that Programming is the only field that you can work on without getting a Bsc degree in Computer Science or CIS whatever... for it ... and really i don't know why but it seems any one can be a software engineer even if he studied literature or history.
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If I may disagree with you on this one... it is not the only field. For example, I worked as a translator a few years back, no need for a degree in philology. One could also get a job as an accountant, position in marketing or perhaps management without an appropriate degree. There are many possibilities.

Of course, I wouldn't try to be a geneticist without the appropriate (Masters) degree.
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yup there are other fields that you can work on without a relevant university degree i think this is maybe why dr's and engineers are looking down to programmers ... they know you can not be a dr without a medicine degree and you can not be an electrical engineer without having an engineering degree (or at least this is the case in my country) however , every one can be a developer i think this is maybe why many of my CS friends decided to study Masters and then PHD .. at least you can not teach CS in university if you dont have CS university degree

but at the end if you like what you do then it does not matter what other people think
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I graduated with an English degree last year and currently work as a software tester. Studying English had the side effect of making me sick of reading literature, so now I only read books on business, technology, and personal development.
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My current career is aligned with my College major, Information Systems. This didn't happen by accident. I actively choose IT jobs because I thought I "had" to. Looking back I should have been open to other opportunities.
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