What did you/dh study at Uni and what did you do afterwards...

[CountessDracula]

Following on from comment on last thread someone made about not wanting their kids to get into debt to the tune of £15k studying English, just to end up doing someone's admin for the next 30 years.

DH studied History and is a Lawyer

I studied Law and I am in IT

Go figure!

French & Spanish - ended up in banking
DH - electronic engineering - ended up in finance

ps did you get my email? was hoping for the baa data?

I posted on the other thread, my scanner is on the blink Am working at home today so will try and sort (sorry)

me 'psychology'only i never went and therefore learned nothing..afterwards

Industrial tribunals - London, Liverpool Leeds - within two years baby, then baby, baby,baby and oh yeah another baby.

DP Vet Science then is one!

DH & I met studying teaching - both became... wait for it... teachers! he still is, I'm a mummy now!

Law, then tried it and couldn't face a life of it. So history and languages and I have become a
(wait for it).........

SAHM!

So there you go, who says education is a waste of time? Mind you university was the best time of my life, wouldn't have missed it for anything.

Linguistics with social anthropology and I am a programmer/IT project manager.

dh didn't do a degree and is a programmer.

I do still have 10k worth of student debt, but then I don't care really. it's low interest and if I get to the age of 50 before I pay it back they write it off.

Dh studied law, is a lawyer.

I studied law, was a lawyer. Since dd, am working in knowledge management in a related capacity.

You can start out with general degrees and then still go into law (with a conversion) or banking/finance, from what I can glean in my limited sphere of the world of work.

I studied teaching and I'm a teacher and DH studied pharmacy and well, he's a pharmacist!!

dh worked (ouch!) whilst he studied. I have often wondered whether it makes a difference to how people to perceive you when you apply for jobs and you have studied 'part-time-, whether that has a positive or negative effect or whether it makes no difference

I studied catering and am a journalist

I studied English then a couple of years after a PGCE then about another 12 years after fine art and never had a proper job

exh studied environmental science rather badly while on leave from his job with the home office then fire engineering and has a very high powered science job for which he gets paid large sums of money and pays no tax as he is now overseas

Did Psychology and am a risk manager!!!
DH did a year of a business degree left when offere a FT job instead and is now self employed in music industry...

dh did English and is a journalist.
I did finance (economics, accounts, commercial law) and became an accountant.

Chemical Engineering I have been a chemical engineer forever.

In a parallel universe I would have done Marine Biology and would now be living somewhere tropical saving coral reefs, but that is another thread entirely.

Did Italian and French BA, PhD in Italian and teach Italian. (So a fairly clear progression there. Think it's fair to say that Italian was a good choice of degree for me )

Dh did Italian and Politics BA as a mature student, then an MSc in Political Theory and a PhD on Italian Politics and now works for the Immigration Service doing a job he could have got into with A'levels (except that he doesn't actually have any A'levels... )

Another rather predictable one here:

dh degree in biochemistry, PhD in biochemistry, now professor of genetics

me degree in pathobiology, PhD in genetics, now reader in genetics; how's that for a linear path!

I did microbiology and became a microbiologist
Now shifted areas slightly but am still saving the world one smelly sample at a time!

DH did a combined honours in Computing and History (with a side order of Buddhism) and now works in access control via a convoluted string of IT jobs.

Though looking at my friends it seems degree subject is very rarely a guide to career: Business Studies-> physiotherapy, Maths-> training guide dogs, French-> ski instructor, Law->academic, Psychology -> teacher, Law-> army, Geography-> call centre manager (?), Physics ->finance, PPE->journalism, History-> teacher.

But apart from one who's now a fashion designer, all my bioscience mates are still in bioscience. Hardcore, eh?

tamum I think there must be something about bioscience that draws us in and keeps us there!

(NB is your DH your boss? is it fun? )

Me Mediaeval History MA, followed by a postgrad in terrorism. I do PR for big corporations, esp technology firms. So absolutley no link.

DH - medicine, but left pre-clinical to edit medical journals, then into computer programming (incl for human genome database type things so slight link back). Now a SAHD (and very good with the calpol I must say)

Meoumix Did an MA in medieval history too (spirituality of the crusades)

Both did materials science and engineering and dh is now a health and safety manager and I'm an environmental consultant. Completely unrelated!

Dp has just finished Uni last week-Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,just needs to get a job now

me history, 1 miserable year around the magazine industry, then healthcare admin for 14 years, so the admin post is completely me!

I studied English and I'm a lawyer.

DH studied History and is a SAHD (he was a chartered accountant previously).