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

[Anonymous]

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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?

I don't think anyone is bitter. PP comes across as insufferably full of herself.

[Anonymous]

Math major. Really liked it. First job I got I was actually doing calculus. Now I'm a lawyer. I think it trained my logical thinking, but still in a liberal arts kind of way -- unlike engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math major. Really liked it. First job I got I was actually doing calculus. Now I'm a lawyer. I think it trained my logical thinking, but still in a liberal arts kind of way -- unlike engineering.

I was a math major too. I'm a very logical person too in how I approach problems at work. There is no issue that I can't solve! I went on the get an MBA in Finance and now work in Financial Services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Just because you didn't finish college doesn't mean you have to take it out on thise who did.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Just because you didn't finish college doesn't mean you have to take it out on thise who did.

*those. Now I'm not sure if I finished college...

[Anonymous]

Economics. Master's in Public Policy. I'm a lawyer.

[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.

Irrelevant - she got her M.R.S.

[Anonymous]

International Affairs. Now I'm a tax attorney. I don't use it in work at all, but I loved it, it prepared me for law school, and I end up making friends with many with the same major. In some ways I wish I had worked harder to steer myself closer to my major, but I'm happy, so no complaints.

[Anonymous]

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

Very interesting. Did you enjoy your major? Do you enjoy being a tax attorney?

[Anonymous]

Accounting. Loved government and sociology, wanted to be a teacher, but knew they would not pay, so wound up in business school. CPA, did big 4 then corporate. Rarely worked over 40 hours in a small niche of tax. Don't necessarily love it, but it is stable, interesting at times, and good pay without too many hours, allowing me to focus on and provide for my family in ways that my parents could not.