Did you end up with a job related to your college degree?

Ha d you recently graduated OP? Like early 20's and out of University a year or two?

Work in the industry you're interested in for a while and don't pressure yourself to like it.

I finally ended up in my childhood dream job for my childhood dream company about 6 years after graduating.

I ended up hating it. The thing I enjoyed was not something I enjoyed as a career but still do as a hobby.

I'm now in a field that suits me, something I've always been good at but not passionate about.

Nope, nobody would give me a job in my college stuff because probably of my unpolished demeaner. I didnt go all the way to a degree but I couldnt even get an entry level job in the industry.
I got a trade and through luck after 15 years in the trade got into a corporate type building and maintenance company. Then into a global manufacturer of heating and air condutioning appliances and now a job running the department that wouldnt give me an interview 20 years earlier to answer their phones would probably be a side step. Im not bitter. I had a bit of a sham aura about me back then. I wouldnt have given myself a job.

I did what I studied in college for about 1 month. I hated it and quit. within 2 days i decided to set up my own business. it was something that had really interested me in the 2 years leading up to me quitting the job. the business i set up could have been set up by someone with no qualifications but I think the business degree i studied has helped me a lot, even in terms of the confidence it gave me.

I hate when people say "you should be doing what you studied in college" I tell them I am, I studied business and am running a business. some look down on me for it but i know for a fact im earning way more working for myself than if i had stuck with the graduate job. I was depressed doing that grad job as something was telling me I wasn't doing what I should be doing. I was happy from day 1 as self employed and 5 years later im still as happy.

my mother was very upset i was "fired" i told her that as i knew she wouldnt be happy i quit the job. she told me many reasons why not to start the business but a couple of years later both my parents told me i was right to set up the business.

I would never take back my college years, they were great years, made great friends and really enjoyed the college life and what i studied.

What's a college? Actually what's a degree? Is it anything to do with the weather?

kapisko1PL wrote: »

So myself personally have studied aeronautical engineering in UL and have some experience not necessarily related to engineering. I worked as an ATC trainee, then worked in aircraft leasing and now have a technician job which is more software/hardware job. It is not entirely related to the topics I've been taught in uni which were more structurally and design oriented, although still work in the aviation industry. I wonder how many people here actually work in the field they have studied or work in a place they have got into without having a college degree? Do some of ye feel a bit lost after graduation trying to find that perfect "branch" of the business?

It would seem VERY interesting though OP. I would think you be someone who could explain a lot of interesting things to do with air travel and the industry.