College Students/Graduates / Past and Present

-Luka

-Luka

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Just thought it would be interesting to hear from users who graduated in their chosen subject/career and has it had any positive or negative situations? Such as, for example, being told too overqualified, not enough experience etc.
Has anyone ever gone back to college/university and studied something else because maybe job market has been tough?

Current Students: what do you like/dislike about your chosen studies? Do you have worries about future etc re career? Backup plans? Let us know. Older users may be able to help and advise etc. (non patronising of course; I’ll roar at them.)

If you’re happy to share, please feel free. Age is irrespective as title says past and present; share thoughts experience and can see the changes of today compared to back then. Just a bit of fun, please don’t post names of universities etc, standard rules apply.

I’ll post in a bit — having a whisky 👀
PS: only posted this here as subject of topic is college- anyone can join. 😀
 
I am completing two master's degrees and am grossly overqualified for most jobs I apply to or work for. The ones I do qualify for often turn me down, for a lack of experience, so I'm forced to work my way up from the bottom, salary wise - which sucks!

I dislike how mechanical course layouts have become, and redundant - and predictable. Exams are still hard for some courses, and discouraging at times. Overall, I'd say graduate experience is 10/10 for the quality lessons on grammar, analytical skills, problem-solving, and emphasis on logic.
 
I have an associate of applied science with a major in medical laboratory technology. I am currently back in school for my bachelor's in medical laboratory science. With my focus on studies in lab science, I am qualified strictly for the position I have now, but if I wanted to venture out or try something new my education would be worthless. Kind of a crappy thing to realize lol. I don't really enjoy any part of the school, never have lol. When I'm doing classes that focus on doing hands-on stuff for the lab I enjoy it more, but like right now I am taking some missing gen eds and it's painfully boring!
 
Ks_guy said:
I have an associate of applied science with a major in medical laboratory technology. I am currently back in school for my bachelor's in medical laboratory science. With my focus on studies in lab science, I am qualified strictly for the position I have now, but if I wanted to venture out or try something new my education would be worthless. Kind of a crappy thing to realize lol. I don't really enjoy any part of the school, never have lol. When I'm doing classes that focus on doing hands-on stuff for the lab I enjoy it more, but like right now I am taking some missing gen eds and it's painfully boring!
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Doctor, my leg, so sore... @Chopper didn’t look what he was doing and injured it....
 
just finishing up my BA in primary teaching - it is very specific so if i decide after a few years that i can't cope with the never ending workload i'll prob be fucked. hahahah

in all seriousness, cannot wait for september when i'll hopefully get my very own class as a qualified teacher. if it does go down the route of not being in love with it i'd probably make a swift career change and go into child safeguarding or post 16 teaching in childcare/ education

who knows what the future holds!

hate studying, love teaching x
 
I’m currently researching social care avenues into uni. I have a post grad degree in something unrelated and i would like to have a total change of career direction.
 
I began working in the medical field right after graduating from high school. My license has opened many doors and provided me with numerous opportunities for advancement. Because of my experiences and skills, I was able to transition occupations without difficulty while earning my Ph.D. in psychology. Anyone interested in working in healthcare should start as a CNA, CHHA, or MT while still in school. Some people have difficulty obtaining work after receiving a psychology degree, however, this is due to a lack of prior experience and skills.
 
I graduated with a degree in Popular Music as a singer, with the idea that I'd go off and be a singer/songwriter (a job that, for the most part, needs literally 0 qualifications) and very quickly realised I didn't have the drive to do it anyway.

I'm now a singing teacher and vocal coach (another hugely unregulated career which really needs 0 qualifications to do really), but that takes a huge amount of researching the subject of singing that was never covered by my degree because it never specialised that directly.

Occasionally I think about doing some sort of MA in something vocal technique based, but honestly I'd only be doing it for myself, and it would probably take time away from actually teaching, so for now that's a box that will stay unopened.
 
So I graduated from Uni in 2012 with a 1:2 in Mathematics and Statistics - worked part time in a shoe store then Tesco always customer service facing so that became my experience. I was fortunate i was educated in Scotland where university is free (i dont know about now but then it was) - to this day I still think it’s a waste, because I’ve never used it in a field. I could’ve easily become a teacher im Scotland, but in England now where I live you have to have a Pgce I think it’s called? And the cost is ridiculous all over for education- strong believer education is a right for all not a privilege money should not exchange to better oneself education does that.

Anyhoo went back to uni in 2014 had to get a student loan which cripples me and obtained a level 5 in Business administration, management and finance.

That I’m glad off irrespective of the debt incurred (still don’t agree with it 🧐) because even though it took me 4 years to utilise and enhance skills it’s got me where I am today. Hasn’t been easy but what is? Except Katie price
 
Luka said:
So I graduated from Uni in 2012 with a 1:2 in Mathematics and Statistics - worked part time in a shoe store then Tesco always customer service facing so that became my experience. I was fortunate i was educated in Scotland where university is free (i dont know about now but then it was) - to this day I still think it’s a waste, because I’ve never used it in a field. I could’ve easily become a teacher im Scotland, but in England now where I live you have to have a Pgce I think it’s called? And the cost is ridiculous all over for education- strong believer education is a right for all not a privilege money should not exchange to better oneself education does that.

Anyhoo went back to uni in 2014 had to get a student loan which cripples me and obtained a level 5 in Business administration, management and finance.

That I’m glad off irrespective of the debt incurred (still don’t agree with it 🧐) because even though it took me 4 years to utilise and enhance skills it’s got me where I am today. Hasn’t been easy but what is? Except Katie price
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Damn I really like this guy.
 
Luka said:
So I graduated from Uni in 2012 with a 1:2 in Mathematics and Statistics - worked part time in a shoe store then Tesco always customer service facing so that became my experience. I was fortunate i was educated in Scotland where university is free (i dont know about now but then it was) - to this day I still think it’s a waste, because I’ve never used it in a field. I could’ve easily become a teacher im Scotland, but in England now where I live you have to have a Pgce I think it’s called? And the cost is ridiculous all over for education- strong believer education is a right for all not a privilege money should not exchange to better oneself education does that.

Anyhoo went back to uni in 2014 had to get a student loan which cripples me and obtained a level 5 in Business administration, management and finance.

That I’m glad off irrespective of the debt incurred (still don’t agree with it 🧐) because even though it took me 4 years to utilise and enhance skills it’s got me where I am today mostly because it was impossible to cheat at exams held via Proctoredu. Hasn’t been easy but what is? Except Katie price
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Graduated from math and worked as a shop assistant - classics. I graduated from Chemistry but now I am ... a flight attendant 🙂
 
WilliamStone said:
I also often had to miss classes due to the fact that starting from the second year I got a job, but I can’t say that this was a minus, since I got a job in my specialty and it was an invaluable experience
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Oh William stone, whatta stone.
 
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