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Old 01-21-2006, 07:50 AM   #2 (permalink)
maleficent
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I graduated back in the mid 80s when IT was really only the major for uber nerds... I've been working in IT for the past 15 years or so, but in college had a double major in Math and Finance... Finance was preferred, math was just fun - -and I kept taking it as electives so I had enough credits for a double major.

My younger brother, by two years, graduated with a degree in Philosophy and French - in spent more than one semester in France as part of his education. He know is also working in IT...

Very few people I know are working in the field that our major was in... Unless it's something really specialized like Engineering, or you're planning on going for a post graduate degree, your college degree really is just a piece of paper that says you completed college, it doesn't have a lot of bearing on what you want to do with the rest of your life...

(though, the running joke when I was in school was if you went for a Liberal Arts or Communications major the only thing you'd be qualified to do was say "Do you want fries with that?", but that's because they were easy majors gotten by the cheerleaders and football players
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