Major in College/What do you do now?

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  1. BLAZER PROPHET

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    I have a degree in aeronautics and I work as a dental risk manager/claims adjuster.

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    What are some of the companies?
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    BS in Physics and work in Optics manufracturing. My biggest regret is going to school for the paper and not the education.
     
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    Very interesting. I'm heading into my senior year as a Criminal Justice major. I'm thinking I should of majored in Computer Science instead. Started as a History major then switched to Criminal...should of switched again.
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    "should of" "would of" "could of" is not grammatically correct. sorry for the internet pedantry.
     
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    What about a good old fashioned should've?
     
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    no clue, but it implies have instead of "of"
     
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    My regrets involve my undergrad classes/majors: I should have gotten a more technical degree (electrical engineering/computer science). I was most interested in being an IP attorney, but to appear before the patent bar (and, indeed, to get a job in that field, based on my research at the time) you need to have a technical undergrad degree. I'm not sure I would have become a practicing attorney if I had that kind of degree under my belt, but I would have liked to have the option.

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    One of the reason's I love the south is that no one really corrects grammar or speech. Here they would have said shoulda
     
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    I SHOULD HAVE majored in Computer Science instead. SHOULD HAVE.
     
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    El-P, why you let some whiny-ass poster get to you and change your, "I got 99 problems but a cawk ain't one"???
     
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    Criminal Justice is really fucking intriguing, which is why I started down that path with a double major of AJ and Accounting. I was in both..... Next thing you know....

    9/11 happens. People are all over that. Criminal Justice is booming.

    Then the Enron/Arthur Andersen shit happen. Accounting and CJ are booming.

    Accounting I figured would take me wherever is business, or the FBI. Or CJ+Accounting to the FBI. Then, I realized I like to party. Accounting and CJ are two of the most credit-intensive majors you can have at PSU (for just a Bachelor's). I realized that would take too long, and I enjoy partying. So I went with a job that pays well (though perhaps a lower ceiling unless I leave the industry) and allows me to party.

    Life is too fucking short. I like my balance of pay and party.
     
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    Really? I keep reading that CJ is somewhat a worthless degree.
     
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    What is it you enjoy doing?
     
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    That's what my wife was finding when she was looking into patent/ip/trademark law a couple of years ago. She was a finance and marketing undergrad and has a JD/MBA, but without the technical degree it'd be really hard to get into a firm that specializes in those areas. What type of law do you practice Ed? Are you at one of the bigger firms in Seattle? We're looking to go back to the NW sometime in the next couple of years, so any insight into the Seattle legal market would be great.

    As for me, my undergrad was in business, focusing on entrepreneurship and finance and I'm a financial analyst for large manufacturing company.
     
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    I changed my major to CJ because I wanted to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Not a regular city cop, but perhaps something federal. FBI would be awesome. Lately I've been having mixed feelings. If I had majored in something like Computer Science, I would have had more options in the event that I could not find a job in Law Enforcement that I wanted.
     
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    I meant at the time it was booming. But forensic accounting is actually fairly big right now, in terms of growth (or at least was recently). FBI, at least a year ago, was hiring pretty big. CJ is better with another degree - a lot of places that desire the CJ degree also want you to have another degree to show you're a well-rounded individual and have other skills.
     
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    I was hooked up for an interview/meet-and-greet with a very high-up FBI agent in DC through a relative. It sounds awesome, and I was really interested in the FBI for a while.

    Then my cousin went into the FBI, and was sent (with his wife) to middle-of-nowhere Texas for 5-7 years and I decided against it.
     
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