what did you go to school for..

[cornercarver78]

... and if you could, would you go back and pick something different, and if so what?

thanks, sorry if this has been discussed before.

[GAtegs]

Marketing/Yes/Engineering.

[T34me]

surgical technology, going to finish my bachelors in science at UGA starting next year, then go to UAB for PA school.

[stephen]

Aircraft Maintenance/yes/aerospace engineering

[BB6dohcvtec]

emergency management-associates degree going to finish up and get my bachelors this fall

[yungdz]

Digital Media Production/ Yes/ Something in Journalism or Business Management. Or car related.

[BABY J]

BA Computer Science/ No

[ash7]

Gulfstream aerospace maintainence & avionics/no - i like my job

-jonathan

[Lucky DAWG]

UGA finance degree undergrad
then going to try and go to Vanderbilt or Georgetown for Law School

[mocha latte cupcake]

Automotive Mechanics/Eh kinda/ More of a Public Relations (but i do enjoy my job in parts)

[00CelicaGT]

Degree in automotive technology/ hell no i work for cadillac and im only 21.

[rizzler]

going for a BA in Math & Economics and then gonna apply for dental school either MCG of UF.

[Lucky DAWG]

Gulfstream aerospace maintainence & avionics/no - i like my job

-jonathan




i don't even know what that is



but that sounds intense :lmfao:

[kfzemx3]

Got certifications in Mechanical Drafting, then got a BFA in graphic design. heh I cant afford to do anything else DAMN YOU STUDENT LOANS DAMN YOU!!!

[ThaABomb]

I'm currently going for my aerospace engineering degree. I chose this major because I love airplanes and this is what my dad did and it sounded like fun. Now that I'm 3/5 of the way through it, I realize that it's not as much fun as I thought it would be and on top of that, I'm starting to think I like cars more than airplanes anyway. Would I go back and do it all differently? I don't think so, but I may not end up using my AE degree very much.

[BobbyFresco]

Chemical Engineering and Biology/yes/Law or Medicine

[ash7]

I'm currently going for my aerospace engineering degree. I chose this major because I love airplanes and this is what my dad did and it sounded like fun. Now that I'm 3/5 of the way through it, I realize that it's not as much fun as I thought it would be and on top of that, I'm starting to think I like cars more than airplanes anyway. Would I go back and do it all differently? I don't think so, but I may not end up using my AE degree very much.

aviation is where the money is at bro - just don't work for an airline and you'll be fine.

Try to get on with UPS or Fedex - their business is picking up these days and they're needing more planes. :goodjob:

-jonathan

[SpecV_Scott]

Political Science (International Studies)/nope, gonna go back to work for the gov't as a civilian and make $$$. But I might hold off on that and go to the Atlanta Institute of Music and take their Bass program (after I finish my BA, of course).

[BKgen®]

animation.

and i wouldn't change a damn thing.

[redrumracer]

well lets see, ive done been to school for a couple of things
Automotive Technology, Computer Programming, and currently Professional Flight Management. would i change what i went to school for? nope even though i have done several different things. and after i get done with my current degree id like to go back to school and get a masters i Aerospace Engineering and/or a law degree. oh and did i mention i hate school.


EDIT: oh and i have also been trained as a Firefighter and also i was a Fire Marshall at 18, so yea @ 22 i think im a highly qualified person.(maybe thats why i never can get a job :thinking: )

[Tech5]

Bussiness management, Automotive Technology...No I would not change nor go back at this time

[Motivation]

"Automotive Collsion Repair" Worked in a shop for a little while. Like it as a hobby instead of a career right now though...

[sararose]

Majored in 3D Modeling and Animation, work as a Digital Compositor, might go back for a masters in Graphic Design.

Do I feel like I wish I had done something else? ....Errr, sometimes. Just because I day dream about different professions, like a Veterinarian or Forensic Scientist. :o

[ThaABomb]

GKtib and sararose, what did/do you guys animate?

[sararose]

GKtib and sararose, what did/do you guys animate?

I haven't had a job in 3D animation. All the animation I have done was while in college for personal shorts and some friends' thesises. I actually don't like it much :o. I currently work in digital compositing and graphic design, and have freelanced for MTV, Psyop Inc., etc. for TV spots, music videos, and commercials. Full time, I work at a full service Photography studio, and do mostly compositing and retouching. :)

[Roadster]

"Machine tool technology". Loving it so far, been working at a race engine shop/machine shop for a year and a half and it shows no signs of getting old.

Going back to school for journalism as a side job is in the near future though.

[JennB]

Computer Science and yes, I'd go back for Accounting since it's what I do now anyway. I have education in Accounting and a whole hell of a lot of experience but just not the official degree.

[AirMax95]

BBA in Logistics & BBA in Marketing.......the Marketing undergrad was a waste IMO.

My job pays, I use the Logistics degree.......thus for now, I like it.

I like my undergrad choices, but for Grad school I am lost. My options/desires are MS Healthcare Administration, MS in Operations Research, MS in Information Technology, or MS in International Logistics.

If I could start ALL over, it would have been Aerospace Engineering PERIOD!

[Calvin200sx]

Chemistry. No I wouldn't choose anything else.

[koukis14]

Automotive Mechanics and Pimpin Hoes...........The second one did not fair so well.

[masonhenson]

bs in business accounting and finance.. or atleast thats what im heading towards

[Nerdsrock22]

Major in history/ minors in photography and english.

I currently work in finance. :thinking:

[tony]

Majoring in Communications, would like to focus more on Journalism but after (or during) my stint in the Air Force I'd like to get my B.A in Economics as well.

[bigdare23]

I have a BS in Mathematics and working on another one in Mechanical Engineering (dual degree program). In though I'm having a tough time right now, I wouldn't change much.

[ShooterMcGavin]

industrial engineering/maybe/finance or mgt

[MR2DR]

biology/no/i love slicing **** open and flossing my ass cheeks with their entrails.

hehehe just messing. but seriously.. i love biology =T

[redrumracer]

Major in history/ minors in photography and english.

I currently work in finance. :thinking:
all i saw out of this was a coach, for some reason coaches are always history teachers. that or sex ed teachers

[rickgiblin]

went to college for automotive collision repair.

now i work at classic collision duluth doing highend collision repair/near totals

[james]

photography/no/i just want to be done.

[eViLMunkey]

Graphic Design @ Art Institute of Atlanta

Then apprenticeship to get trained for ASE cert.

and Now I'm a Gallery Manager

[james]

Graphic Design @ Art Institute of Atlanta




thats where i go. im ready to be done. how far along are you?

[eViLMunkey]

thats where i go. im ready to be done. how far along are you?
Dropped it since the teachers were crap, must be why they're teaching not producing but I went from '01 till late '02. I was originally supposed to go to SCAD (kinda wish I had).

[Lucky DAWG]

photography/no/i just want to be done.



want to be done?



I never want to leave this place

[eViLMunkey]

Art institute blows nuts..

[guinness]

networking and web-design.got my unix/linux rhce and rhct certifications as well my cisco ccvp,ccnp,ccdp,ccip,ccsp,ccent,cissp,and ccie certifiacations.cisco is really my specialty though!

[eg mike]

In school for Computer Engineering / Don't know if I'd change , I would of like to do the gaming and design they offered 2 semesters later.

[guinness]

Art institute blows nuts..

i've heard people that go to school say that when you do work for class,to get graded,if it's good enough they will display it,but don't give any credit to the student(s) and if someone buys it,they keep the money.someone said their excuse was that it was done while in school and students don't get to keep any money from any sells while still in school :thinking: !!wtf??

[SixSquared]

Dropped it since the teachers were crap, must be why they're teaching not producing but I went from '01 till late '02. I was originally supposed to go to SCAD (kinda wish I had).

No you don't.

Graphic and Industrial Design, wouldn't change it for the world. Done this time next year and we shall see where the job market takes me.

[SixSquared]

i've heard people that go to school say that when you do work for class,to get graded,if it's good enough they will display it,but don't give any credit to the student(s) and if someone buys it,they keep the money.someone said their excuse was that it was done while in school and students don't get to keep any money from any sells while still in school :thinking: !!wtf??

Yup. Technically any and all art that you produce for a grade/assignment while in school is the property of the school.. their logic I guess being that if not for an assignment, you wouldn't have created the piece.

I ran into a BIG problem with this in my modeling and prototype design class... we were brainstorming ways of improving products we use regularly, so we were assigned to do 30 quick sketches of different things... it could literally be anything we pick up on regular basis. I work on my cars a lot, so I was toying around with different ideas for how to improve toolboxes, jacks, whatever... The next day in class we displayed all 30 of our sketches, and the class picked 5 from the 30 for each class member to improve on. Then we went home and improved on them, and the class picked 1 for people to do as a project. One of my designs that was in the top 5 but not the final one picked I happened to really like, so after the quarter was over, I submitted the design for patenting and then to a couple of different tool companies. Alltrade showed interest in working with the design and bought it from me and I've been working with them on it since. Well I mentioned it to some friends and it got back to our department head. He said that he could have me expelled from the school for selling a design that belonged to them... it wasn't even the one I had chosen to work with for my project, but he said it was theirs. My dad got his attorney involved and SCAD backed off, but it was ridiculous nontheless.

But I must admit.. it is cool to walk through the aisles of a store and see something that was a rendering on your computer a few months before.

[jamaicanDM]

double majored in Psy/Justice Studies....yes probly accounting

[Master Shake]

auto collision repair and paint refinishing.
i wouldn't change it.
i want to go back for a business degree in marketing though.

[ranger250x]

Automotive technology specializing in NASCAR technology(NASCAR Tech. Institute)/ as far as changing it no but would like to take more fabrication/ working for Downing Atlanta in the composites shop making carbon fiber parts for Mazdaspeed RX-8 Rolex cars, and any thing that needs to be made of CF

[BMFH07]

Automotive Technology and Business Management/ No

[Big J]

nursing, yes (but just for fun), CAD and drafting

[sararose]

Yup. Technically any and all art that you produce for a grade/assignment while in school is the property of the school....(story)

Wow, that is total BULL****! :no: I can't believe you would not get the rights to your own work! I'm sorry this happened to you and your design. :(

On the other hand, I graduated from SVA (School of Visual Arts), and students have 100% rights to their own work (unless it is work done through a professor for outside work; for example, I worked on VHS or BETA's "Night on Fire" music video through my 2nd year Dynamic Media and Motion Graphics class, and I had no right to the music video, except for the scenes I worked on, I was allowed the rights to use them in my personal portfolio/demo reel). The school DID have rights to use any artwork or photographs of artwork in any promotional or published materials. However, it was YOUR work, and you could do what you wanted with it.


Edit: Here's a perfect example...


ClearRx is a trademark for a design for prescription drug packaging, designed by design student Deborah Adler as a thesis project and adopted by Target Corporation (with refinements by industrial designer Klaus Rosburg) for use in their in-store pharmacies. The design is an attempt to clarify certain difficult aspects common to most prescription bottles...

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/sa/index.jsp?sid0=5&page_id=139&event_id=262

http://sites.target.com/site/en/health/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-003977

Apparently, they paid her a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE sum for the rights to her design. :eek:

[4dmin]

programming

[DevilK9]

Marketing (in the end)

Go back? uhh...I don't think so. I'm pretty happy with my skillset, but I just wish the job market wasn't so damn packed...especially in the auto aftermarket industry.

[cactusEG]

criminal justice

[BKgen®]

GKtib and sararose, what did/do you guys animate?

i'm graduating from AiA next spring, focusing mainly on 2D animation and concept/background design... that's where my heart's at. I have dabbled in some 3d animation -- just what I need to get by with a degree. Hated it. I do enjoy modeling in 3d though. Just not animating. As far as what I've done: mainly just side projects and the occasional class project worth keeping. Nothing of monetary value yet. Soon though...

[SpooL'DGsR]

industrial engineering. never thought i would grab the concept, but i am kicking ass now.