How much of your education in college you use for your job?

What do you mean by use? If you mean specific knowledge, then less than 1%. If you mean everything I learned to be in college that makes me the wonderful employee I am today, it's closer to 100%.

 

Yeah, I'm a Human Bio major, minoring in Anthropology, and right now I work at a private school.... the only education I use is elementary education, unless I get a really good question from my genius kids.

 

5%

 

Math major with Computer Science minor - though I never graduated.

Even though my programming languages were Fortran and Cobol which I don't use anymore, they did teach me programming principals which I use today. I also use my math portion (though not near as much as I had classes for) when I write calc engines in C# so I'd have to say >40%.

 

I should have added that when I left college, I knew about 10% of what I needed to know for my first job.

 

You should be able to give us a more accurate figure than this.

 

LOL - It's pretty relative right now...

 

I have a Finance degree and I use it pretty much every day, as I am responsible for the investment process...Even if I owned my own business, I'd use it alot...

 

Slightly less than 0.00000000001%

Degree = B.A in Music

Job = Putting coversheets on TPS reports

 

Very little for me. Most of the stuff I know I taught myself through reading or hands-on screwing up.

 

School's just a status symbol in the job market. Like a nice car when you're trying to pick up chicks at the club. It helps, but it's really pointless on the whole. You could've spent those 4-6 years getting real-life work experience and you'd be a more proficient employee in whatever field.


College is overrated.

 

Factually what I learnt?

Very little.


What I learnt about meeting deadlines, time management, presenting skills, logical reasoning, effective written and oral communication, working in a team (I could go on)?

A lot.

 

says the person with "waiter/student" in his occupation.

 

how much of your education from high school is used for your job?

 

even in engineering or medicine or law?

 

Okay, so I'll admit some of it is worthwhile. F4P's right, but I'm just making a point for most cases. Especially for the Human Bio/Anthropology cases of the world. But, as A-Train will tell you, the Homer Simspons of the world didn't go to college and they're still ensuring our safety from a nuclear explosion

 

Depends on what you do.

 

Zip. Got a BS in Advertising. I am a Computer Consultant specializing in security for ERP software packages.

That being said, college is NOT overrated. Regardless of what your degree is in, you've got to get that Bachelors degree. It will get your foot in the door where not having the piece of parchment wouldn't even get you a first look. What you do afterwards is up to you, but getting your Bachelor's degree is very important.

 

I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from UT. Some of the courses such as the Analog and Digital Circuit Design classes I use heavily in the workplace. I still keep some of my old college textbooks in my cube as reference. I apply much of my Prob. Stat. class in my day to day work as well. Surprisingly, the Technical Writing course I took is coming in handy when I write up test reports. I'm not a programmer so I don't use the C++ stuff that much, but I do need to have a good understanding of coding in general.

One thing that did surprise me is the ongoing training you do when you start a new job. I took a three day course on SCSI and another 3-day course on Disk Drive Technology in San Jose. Also, my manager has me taking graduate level extension courses on Reliability through the University of Maryland. Not to mention all the Business Process Improvement (Six Sigma) training you're forced to take.