What did you major in college?

Oh yeah... sorry... I am not sure about management. I know in order to get a job behind the yoke your resume has to be walked in by someone who has flown with you. It's crazy hard to get on with them... but air-tight schedules, the best pay, and best of all... no (*)(*)(*)(*)ing passengers. Best job in the air.

 

Not to side-track the thread, but I wouldn't have bothered spending the last 3 1/2 years getting an MBA if I wanted a pilot air freight job. I flew a Dash-8 for Ameriflight for 7 years after leaving active duty, they're the number 1 feeder for UPS. I want a mangement position in the transportation industry, I'm not limiting myself to just air freight companies. I could get a job easy enough if all I wanted to do was go back to being freight dog. Been there and done that. Money is a secondary issue to me.

Back on topic...I don't have much formal education regarding political science and/or civics courses. I don't have the stomach for that, just chatting about it in here is derisive enough...can't imagine how bad it must be trying to make a living at it.

 

I was an engineering dork for both my undergrad and my first masters. Now I am working on another masters in flight test engineering. Absolutely nothing to do with politics, the government, or anything this site is about.

 

Emphasis on dork.

Heck Gov at least mention the fact you went to MIT. I'd be bragging if I went there.

 

I avoid mentioning it because I am a retard and not a good example of the network of alumni.

 

I want to be in management and I noticed I misspelled it in my prior post.. From one retard to another welcome to the club.

 

at the time I went, and the small school, it was called computer electronics

basically it was math, math, math, math ....did I mention math?

a few electives, more math, the obligatory psych and english classes and finally......lab work

when i walked out, I could however design circuits, write code in machine language (no kidding) and got started in my field

I did have a minor in Chinese drinks because all of us broke students could only afford to drink at the chinese restaurant down the street.

years later I returned back to school during the MBA craze and started to chase that but never finished.

 

German

... at least in my later studies. Drifted through computer networking at a community college and a 2-year history/liberal arts degree at a private college before that.

 

During my freshman year, I let my girlfriend talk me into enrolling in the Special Education program where she was a sophomore. We kind of had this idea that we might wind up both working in the same town pulling in big bucks in a new and growing field. The university we enrolled in was boasting about a 75% placement rate for graduates. Thiswas during a slight ecconomic down turn at that. Seemed pretty good.

They didn't bother to warn people that only 25% of those who enrolled were completing their degrees specificly in Special Ed, or that there was usually about another 75% attrition over the first five years in the field. Guess that was why I met so few old Special Ed teachers.

It is a very emotionally challenging field of work. A good example was the time I was tasked to teach a forty-five year old woman who had been kept at home until her mother died how to play with a ball. It took a week to get her comfortable with the idea of moving her elbows away from her rib cage. But, I was doing okay until I had to deal with autistic kids.

Sorry, it just creeped me out. It was as though I had entered a separate reality where nothing that one might expect to work did.

I dropped out at the begining of my senior year, dropped the girl friend and jopined the Army with plans to eventually become a Food Service Warrant Officer. A couple disabling injuries put an end to that career path, too.

If I did not have such a wierd sense of humor, that sort of thing would probably bother me enough that someone would have gotten a court order to take my gun collection away.

 

Computer science back in the 80s. What a waste. Real world was nothing at all like the flights of fancy they taught in school. There were a few useful nuggets of knowledge in there, but a whole lot of crap as well.

 

I majored in looking at college girls.

 

My major was lounge poker. Btw, I aced it.

 

Political science/history in undergrad, political science in grad.

Wishing I would have gone into a medical field rather than political science, because I'll never get a job related to my degree. All of my relevant experience is in public administration.

 

Redacted of course.

 

I majored in History with a few minors thrown in. I don't really use the degree other than just "having a degree" for certain job positions, and after being saturated in the subject for so long I just don't have the same interest as I used to. I originally went to school wanting to major in Music and then changed to the equally pointless degree of History.

If I could go back in time and change one thing I'd probably go for a Criminology/Criminal Profiling type of degree.