If you had your time again would you have done a different degree?

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I would. English. I was great at it at school (A*) gcse etc. Good degree but imo totally useless. No longer want to teach.
I was also good at science but found the maths component tricky. I wish id done something a bit more useful and scientific like radiography. I will prob go vack and study but i wish id done something more useful in the first place!

Anyone else?

Oh, god yes. I did English because I was a teenager who liked vampire romance novels and then writing my own especially terrible vampire romance novels. Cue my doting parents and deluded teachers telling me to 'be a writer!'

Utter mistake in every way, I ended up in financial services as soon as I graduated and am now retraining in tech. I couldn't have wasted those three years in a worse way if I'd tried.

I did classics - Latin and Ancient Greek. I have never, ever regretted it. I was the luckiest person in the world to do it because it was so fascinating and beautiful, and it has enhanced my life immeasurably. There is not a single area of my life which is has not been improved by it, hardly a day goes by when I'm not utterly grateful for having done it.

I loved it, and I still do, it taught me so much about the world, what it is to be human. I am a staid professional now but I'd recommend it without reservation in a heartbeat.

Not all of us who did English hated it or regret it. I loved mine.

I usually just dump a short answer here and there but might aswell elaborate on this as it's something I think about a lot lately. After my fashion degree I felt unemployable and went on to do a bachelor and masters in Architecture which I assumed to be a good balance between creativity and mathematics which to some extent it has been but i just never felt I had the same connection with the built environment that most of my fellow students and eventually colleagues had. I do have a strong bond with fashion and clothing and style now but I felt my degree was too broad and I never really specialised in anything for long enough to be employable in any particular area although I may have been too scared to really try in that industry as it intimidated me so much

Law. And HELL yes.

Felix I see it as a really practical course, i can even lay carpet thanks to my pattern cutting skills A lot of what you learn is transferable to so many other things.. There are really quiet months of the year, so i work p/t in an antique/restoration shop where my employer also uses my skills, and i'm learning new things all the time!

Enjoy your course and the creative adventures to follow!

No did psychology has made me piece together many situations

Yes, I did Chemistry and have never used it, though looking back a rudely rejected a PhD that was probably a good opportunity and good private funding too.

Wish I had done a degree with a clear career such as pharmacy (though friends tell me it isn't that great) or something like radiography or not been a lazy twat at A-levels and pushed myself for medicine.

Threads like this always make me a bit sad

I totally would. I did computer science, but should've done Nutrition. I wish I could go back in time to change just that one little thing...

If I knew what I knew now I would have got a job and bought as many houses as I could have instead of doing any degree. It was the late 90s and property was still cheap.

I am so chuffed to see so many people regretting not doing a language at University. I wish I could show my students your posts!
I did my degree in German with Spanish and have been a teacher for the past 21 years. I wish I had done different A levels (still German though) and I wish I'd had a year out, either before University or after I graduated, but at the time I was very shy and it wasn't as common as now.

Ok, I won't read the thread as it will make me biased!

I did English Lit, and on the whole, no, I wouldn't do a different degree. It is necessary to my current job and I do absolutely love it.

However, I do wish I'd been encouraged more to consider non-degree subjects and non-traditional degrees.

thisis indeed!

I did arts, media degree. They are ten a penny, I think the presence of it on my CV actually puts people off as they have a certain idea of failed media types. Wish I had done a work based degree, my best friend did nursing degree and has workwd all over the UK, she is quite high up and very well paid now.

I started a degree in Software Engineering but due to a crisis of confidence I switched to computing (more web design based) was a mistake as my grade for my two different modules proved (was a common first year the only difference was web design and visual programming in place of games programming and a more robust and useful programming language). I regret not sticking with the SE and left after that year. I'm studying again now doing Physics - I officially stay in two weeks (though have started prep work) and really excited for the future now.

History, and no. I absolutely adored it with a dark passion, though I wasn't particularly good at it. On my deathbed I will remember beng tucked into a tiny desk on the Xth floor of the university library, reading, reading, thinking, connecting. Also had the luck of working with original texts from the 16th century - handling something that you can see was written on by somebody else's hands 500 years ago gives you the hot feels, as Shakespeare no doubt said. I even had some ideas. Like, for example, I read many books and articles about James I and how he was enthusiastic and active in policy in the first half of his reign, and lethargic and withdrawn in the second. All sorts of reasons were advanced for this. I was amazed to find out that at that time, they didn't seem to notice that his eldest son died halfway through the reign. I mean, they noticed, they just didn't seem to see that this is something that would affect anybody. Very odd.

I wouldn't do a different one, but I'd love to do another one. Biochemistry as a youngster (loved it), did Psychology as a grown up because I thought it would be interesting (it was), now fancy maybe Maths? Or History?

I'm not sure. I hated studying but getting a law degree helped me get a graduate training opportunity (not in law though). Mostly it was incredibly boring. I'm not sure I'd do a degree at all because I am a terrible student. If I did, I'd pick something I was passionate about. I find certain types of history interesting, maybe I'd study that. Or English Literature. The only parts of my degree I found interesting were Criminal Law and Law and Medical Ethics.

I would definitely not do dentistry.

Chemistry degree maybe then work in industry. Anything but dentisting.

Did Biology, would have done something more like Computer Science if I'd known a bit more about it as an option.

I did English & if I had my time again I'd do either law, or maybe modern languages.

No, but I would have done it at a different time. Rather than going straight to uni from A Levels I should have got a job, got to grips with my mental and got the motivation and commitment that doing uni well requires. When I went back to do an MA in my thirties I worked so much harder, achieved so much more consistently and really wanted to be doing the course. First time round I was there because I thought I had to be and I almost drowned, not just because the academic requirement was beyond me but because I was mentally and emotionally such a mess.

I did English. I loved it and would do it again in a heartbeat. I agree that it's not a useful degree; I ended up doing a law conversion a few years later.

I don't know. If I got another go now as me I'd do something different for a change, but it's been an interesting life so far and my degree ensures I'm financially independent so I don't regret what I've done and how my life is. I'm just a bit bored of it now and fancy a change, but not enough to give up my income and pension......