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#4206294 - 12/15/15 06:03 PM
What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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PanzerMeyer
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Mine: Anthropology Actual job field that I ended up in: Information Technology Reason: I was tired of starving. 
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#4206308 - 12/15/15 06:32 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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Mudcat
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#4206312 - 12/15/15 06:37 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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David Kennard
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Not too far off . . . 
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#4206321 - 12/15/15 06:42 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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mugwump
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First time through: Geography and history. I ended up working as a land surveyor but couldn't land full-time work. Added a teaching certificate and spent the next 15 years overseas teaching English mostly but occasionally some science classes as well.
Second time through: Civil engineering.
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#4206333 - 12/15/15 06:58 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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Goblin
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Mine: Anthropology Actual job field that I ended up in: Information Technology Reason: I was tired of starving. That's funny. Well, not really, but I worked with a guy who studied Anthropology and, when he was tired of starving, when back and got another degree in electrical engineering. My undergrad started with Physics, ended up with Computer Engineering.
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#4206338 - 12/15/15 07:03 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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Goblin
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Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Took a break on the 4th year (5 year program) to do an internship. They offered me a job. Took me 10 years to come back and finish my degree. By that time, I was already burned out of engineering work, so I switched to Information Technology as my trade.
Pays much less, but better hours and I am the hero of the secretarial pool.
Wow. I wrote this and deleted it from my previous post: Now I'm in a corporate world that is choking the life out of the profession (my title and Master's degree is EE). I am seriously burning out, but I'm at an age (46) where I'm wondering if it's worth it to do something else or to just try to hold on. I could survive a pay cut...
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#4206340 - 12/15/15 07:07 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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NavyNuke99
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Electrical Engineering, with a specialty in Renewable Energy Systems. Working to position myself into a niche in renewables and sustainability consulting and policy.
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#4206349 - 12/15/15 07:21 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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Dart
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Chemistry. But I was overloading with History classes so they made me a double major.  Then I discovered the fact I was at a college with eight girls for every guy (and the possibilities of that) and failed out. 
The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events. More dumb stuff at http://www.darts-page.comFrom Laser: "The forum is the place where combat (real time) flight simulator fans come to play turn based strategy combat."
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#4206361 - 12/15/15 07:39 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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NavyNuke99
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Then I discovered the fact I was at a college with eight girls for every guy (and the possibilities of that) and failed out. There was a reason I only applied to schools that were veritable sausage fests.
" And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'"- John F. Kennedy
"NUKE-ular. It's pronounced NUKE-ular."- Homer Simpson
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#4206431 - 12/15/15 10:05 PM
Re: What was your major in college? (undergrad)
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shan2
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Chemistry. Ended up working in pharmaceutical development (along with QC) and cancer research.
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