I have been an IT consultant for 25+ years with an architecture degree.
College is not job training. There are certain careers where you need a certain degree to work in that field (i.e. pharmacy, engineering), but those are a small percentage of the workforce. And I know people with engineering degrees working in a variety of fields.
If we did a poll here of those with college degrees, I bet we find more where there current job doesn't match their degree than those that do.
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Absolutely! It does happen. It does happen. There are just so many jobs that aren't specific to any major. I just finished a project where I worked with product owners of credit and payout systems used by merchants who accent payments and/or have to pay others. There isn't a specific major for that kind of rule. Maybe a business major or a finance major or a CS/MIS major? Or some other major and their career evolved into this roles. I looked some up on LinkedIn. One has a BA degree but didn't list his major. His first job was in the Enterprise Rental Car Management program. Another has a degree in German. One of the product directors majored in English and Communications and another studied Biochemistry and Genetics. These are all people who had key roles in designing products for the largest merchant services firms in the world and sold to the largest companies in the world (Disney, AirBnB, and Bet365 are among their biggest clients). One of the guys I worked closely with was on the sales acceleration team. His job was to configure and request development changes to their Salesforce CRM and work with sales people moving opportunities through the sales process. He had has a degree in marketing so it's kind of close, but there isn't a major that teaches you that specific job.
I got a finance degree. There really isn't a specific job that it applies to. Its basically a piece of paper that says "I have an intermediate knowledge of the time value of money."
Of the business degrees, Accounting is the one that translates most directly to a specific career.
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Is this a real thread why is out of state Tuition higher than in state?
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