What was your undergraduate major? Did you enjoy it? Does it relate to what you do now?

[Anonymous]

My degrees are in sociology. My business dad was supportive (sister's degrees are in anthropology), but encouraged us to find a practical way to apply said majors.

My first job didn't use it at all. My second job used it quite a bit as I was a project manager for evaluation grants and many of the project directors for the contractors had Ph.Ds in sociology. My current job is only marginally related- I work in criminal justice and my concentration was in criminology, but the actual job itself can be done by anyone, degree or no degree.

[Anonymous]

History major and loved it. Even got a graduate degree in Liberal Arts. No - it doesn't directly apply to my job now and I never expected it to. I never thought of college as job training school. It is about learning to think and write critically, conduct research and expand your knowledge base.

[Anonymous]

I have a BA in psychology, and I teach preschool. I love my job, but I make peanuts.

[Anonymous]

Computer Science. Enjoyed it. Still enjoying it after 25 years.

[Anonymous]

History. I loved it, and it does relate directly to my career (and no, I don't teach).

[Anonymous]

Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

[Anonymous]

BA in journalism.

Work as a journalist.

[Anonymous]

Political Science, concentrating on U.S. foreign policy. Yes. Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

IME, people like you tend to be the most unimaginative, banal people around. You overcompensate for your sheer dullness by creating a wildly inaccurate self-image that fools no one, primarily consisting of aggressively ugly clothes and nauseating home decor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

IME, people like you tend to be the most unimaginative, banal people around. You overcompensate for your sheer dullness by creating a wildly inaccurate self-image that fools no one, primarily consisting of aggressively ugly clothes and nauseating home decor.

Man, are you verbose. And boring.

[Anonymous]

Spanish language with a minor in sociology. I'm a tax attorney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

In my experience, people like you are delusional about their "fabulous sense of aesthetics", and are unpleasant due to their excessively high opinions of themselves vis-à-vis "the herd".

[Anonymous]

Music major. I do not use it in my career now - I became a lawyer, of all things - but I sure do know a lot about music!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

I note that you never mention that you managed to be successful at a J.O.B.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Art history major; then later also got a degree in fine arts. Worked as an artist intermittently, but never sucessfully. I do have a fabulous sense of aesthetics and think far outside the confines of most people's herd mentality. My husband is in the sciences ,yet when he needs a problem solved, he always remarks on my ability to generate creative alternative approaches that help him tackle the problem. Sometimes creativity is a blessing but often it just encourages distraction.

I note that you never mention that you managed to be successful at a J.O.B.

Someone on this thread is quite bitter about the art history major. Did you get a bad grade in your Art History 101 course or something?