BA in Behavioral Pschology, minor Special Ed, Graduate hours (not finished) Labor and Policy, Journeyman Model Maker, specialty in rapid prototyping R&D for GM (30 years), Internal Consultant on Quality & Labor Organizer for the UAW.

Now trying my best to stay retired in TV.

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology followed by a law degree.

On the job training at the S & S law school of higher education.
Learned to be a fiduciary accountant (of all things).
Had a very interesting and successful career in trust and estate taxation.
Part time now, but about to turn in my pencil in a few weeks.

Numbers are your friends, you can always count on them.:evil6:

Graduated in 1964 with a major in Industrial Engineering but never worked a day as an Engineer. Found out that I hated Motion/Time Study so started my career in Materials Management which eventually lead to a 30 year career in software consulting. Go figure!!!

I was an elementary teacher for 8 years (before children). I then retired and my husband had to support us. Husband had business degree and then a law degree (this usually brings up a lot of bad comments, so he usually tells people he was a drug dealer instead)

Accounting - BORING

Worked for construction companies and became Estimator/Project Manger on heavy industrial projects (Wastewater and Water treatment plants, Livermore Lab Starwars Lazer, 115 KV Substation, 49 MW Power Plant, Bay Bridge West Sesimic Retrofit, New Kaiser Hospital, etc

:laugh::laugh: I used to say the same thing about my wife being a drug dealer but at the time she did work in a pharmacy.

BA Political Science and Economics....graduate level coursework in business, accounting, forensic accounting, law, and history

37 years in a large multinational corp with the last 25 as a Sr Mgr in charge of fixing troubled organizations who had failed audits or were underperforming. 15 of those were global jobs designing internal controls into new processes such as integrated procurement and business partner management.

Also spent 37 years in the Reserves of the US Marine Corps retiriing as a LtCol.
I spent most of the my commissioned service (25 years) in Intelligence/Counterterrorism.

What Did You Major In
 

In High School I majored in Boys.

After marriage and several children I returned to school at two technical schools in Panama City, Florida and Milwaukee, Wisconsin to learn data processing. While working for the Federal Government I took advantage of the many educational opportunities available and went from being a Command Secretary in the Dept. of Defense to twenty years of clerical work at a VA Hospital. Started as an Eligibility Clerk went on to become certified as a Medical Record Coding Technician and after even more courses ended up in the Surgical unit as the Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy Program Coordinator. I was the first ESWL program coordinator in the VA system in the US and helped develop the forms and criteria interviewing to establish the base for qualifying patient candidates.

Chuck, fellow accountant, we're not boring!
Didn't you see my post?
Numbers are our friends... you can always count on them:evil6:
Let's get together and party on:pepper2::pepper2:
Gail,
Fiduciary Accountant, Extrordinaire:eclipsee_gold_cup:

Well, I majored in Animal Husbandry until I got caught at it. :MOJE_whot::loco:

Then I switched to a History major with Poly Sci and Philosophy minors. Good decision, in retrospect.


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Majored in wine, women & sports, but still got BS in Business (American International College). Spent 6 years in Army National Guard, then spent 20 active duty in USAF. Along the way I got MA in Business (Central Michigan University). After USAF, 18 years as real estate broker/instructor Now a happy, golfin frog!:pepper2::pepper2:

Dual BAs with majors in Philosophy and History. Minor in Religious Studies.
 

Then, a MA in Librarianship and Information Management and a Law Degree.

Have not used these 4 degrees all that much though.

major
 

Law enforcement

Are we being overrun here with accountants and English majors?

Wonder what they would talk about in their conversations?

Accountants and engineers usually stare at your shoes while English majors and journalists wax on.

Secretarial School
 

I went to a secretarial school in Wilmington, DE, and then worked for DuPont, and Mobil until I had our second child. I was a stay-at-home mom for 8 years, during which time I had our third child. Then I returned to work at our local college where I stayed for 25 years.

Am enjoying retirement very much.

Hubby worked for the Federal Government for 25 years in a number of capacities. He has a BA from our local college in Administration. He ended up his years in the Federal Government in personnel and EEO.

This is a man who never cursed until he worked in an office staffed primarily with women. :cus: I should clarify - he didn't curse because he worked with the women - he cursed because he picked it up from them.

Normally, the only words one hears from an English major are "Do you want fries with that?". An English Major or, god forbid, an English Sergeant Major, would likely have more to say.

Oh dear, oh dear, Mr. Tony, it seems you have now managed to rally Villagers to come after English majors. Villagers carrying their pitchforks and torches. (I almost did not use that allusion lest you think that I am an English major. And I also know I should refrain from saying, "Et tu, Munc?")

Oh well. Now, of course, I just have to tell you a story. I think I have told it somewhere before in all this stuff from over a year.

Back in the meet market days, remember those, one of my good friends would lie about her job when she first met a guy. Not only was she an English major, she was an English teacher. The most dreaded of all the dreaded cliches, so most people think.

So anyway, once he got past, "Hey Baby, what's your sign?" the next question might be, "Where do you work?"

And so help me, she lied every time she was interested. She would say that she worked for the phone company. She knew that if she told the guy that she was indeed an English teacher, he would just move down at least 2 or 3 barstools.

True story from long, long ago.

Boomer

Hmmmmmmm. Is she an English teacher? Hmmmmm No...she is a pole dancer!

JUST KIDDING BOOM....!

Hahaha! Wax on.... giggle. English Sergeant Major.... snort. Tee Hee! You folks are a hoot! :1rotfl:

Speaking of English majors... I get emails from Grammar Girl, much like the ones I get from Spaceweather. Would any of you be interested in knowing how to keep from mixing up possessives and contractions, or what you call two Blackberry phones, or "going to" vs/ "will"? I could post the emails I get from her if you're interested. And no, I was not an English major, although I was an Ohio majorette for a while.

Huh? A Pole Dancer???

GG, I thought I told everybody that I am German.

Boomer

Love the repartee on this thread.....hilarious!! :coolsmiley: :a040:

Any more English majors out there?

Here's another English major, Tony.
After doing student teaching to high school seniors my junior year in college, I added business as a minor and never pursued teaching.
Instead, I became an executive assistant to the VP General Counsel of a Fortune 500 company.
After the 3 children were in school, became a SC real estate agent and enjoyed property management of 400 resort homes on
the weekly rental market.
I have not been able to find a suitable part time niche since I moved to TV 3 years ago.

My major?
 

I know that I majored in something. Does that count?:shrug:

Yoda

I didn't know they spoke English in the Bronx.

It used to be the Broncks, you know, and I think they had a hard time spelling it.

BS in History from Towson State (Towson, MD).

Master Scheduler for Western Electric products in Omaha, NE.
Retired early.
Moved to NC.
Stayed "Retired" for 2 weeks.
Went to work for Progress Engery in NC. Jill of all Trades for Major Projects division.
Stayed for 10 years.
Retired in 2009.

Will stay retired this time.

Mrs. tghoul

I have a BS degree in Domestic Engineering.

Wellll, I got me a BS degree in BS. Then I got me a Master's degree in the same thing. Did not get me one of them PhD's though. You know those things -- PhD's -- Piled higher and Deeper.

Boomer

More Accountants
 

I don't know about English majors, but there are more accountants.

I majored in accounting. I started out working as an income tax examiner for New York State. Then I went on to become an auditor and then an accountant. Although I still have an accounting title, at the request of management, I've spent the last 15 years becoming more of an administrator than an accountant.

Looking forward to retiring and moving to TV.

BS-Industrial Engineering

What was my major ?????
 

That is a very good Question because it has been so long ago. But we never knew for sure what he was ....There was a lot of speculation but no one really seemed to know for sure....
I do seem to remember that he dressed funny but that of course doesn't mean ( what? why? ohh OK !!)

Sorry , I missunderstood the Question ..

dumb old fumar

That's it!
 

I have a degree in BS. I knew that sounded failure.

Yoda:pepper2:

Hi Boomer, I got a kick out of your reply. I have a cousin who is a very well educated lady and you would never know it as she is so down to earth. Recently she ws at Gathering and the Topic of the Conv was What is your Major and this really irked her and when it came her turn to answer she said IMAJOR IN COMMON SENCE. She said you could have heard a pin drop the conversation soon changed and they had a nice evening and beleive me she could have run circles around the crowd that were there, She is a Nuclear Physicist and Astronomer. Not to Shabby????????????? but she cannot stand people who flaunt there Degrees

My Major
 

Started out in Business Administration and changed in mid-stream majoring in Spanish.

Never used the Spanish and wound up owning a trucking company in New York/New Jersey.

Sold the company 18 years later and went to a major trucking company and worked in contract administration. Was transfered quite a few times to Atlanta, Charlotte and, Fort Worth.

Retire to Cape Coral, FL living there for 8 years and finally moved to The Villages.

One of my activites is taking some on line courses to polish up on my Spanish and at the same time helping Spanish speaking people to learn English. Love doing this.