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!

Me - i studied medical materials science and engineering and the a PhD and am now a postdoc researcher

Dh - History and Philosphy - then a PGCE and is now a teacher of history and classics

Me - Dentistry. Went on to do........ Dentistry.
DH - Economics and Accounting. Went on to do Law.

me - philosophy and psychology. then psychology phd. now am psychology academic.

DP - physics. then physics phd. now is IT software engineer. (as are most of his friends from his physics course)

I studied English, had a series of retail management positions, now SAHM.

DH has no degree but a levels in French and economics and somehting else, now in IT.

English, postgrad one year librarianship course - librarian
Dh - English and History, same post grad course -librarian

anchovies - i rarely meet fellow materials scientist other than at work!

me - ba hons in structured textile design (weaving & embroidery), worked as a needlecraft designer for 11 yrs, now a temporary sahm in process of setting up as freelance to be a wahm

dh - ba hons illustration, now a portrait painter/university lecturer

history, so now do..absolutely nothing to do with subject area, currently SAHM possibly back to mgmt position soonish
dh - IT via MBA

Me - the dreaded English > book publishing.(Freelance now though so not doing anyone else's admin. Sadly nobody's doing mine either.)
dh - Artificial Intelligence > reporter.

Compo! Forgot to mention dh and my postgrad librarianship courses, that's where we met too :)

Dh took American Studies/History and is in IT
I got my degree in Fine Arts majoring in Ceramics and before being a SAHM I worked in an art gallery and did admin.
BUT someday when i have more time and more money I'm going to MAKE stuff again!!

Aeronautical engineering and now I am studying midwifry and peadiaticris! though i think i should be doing english cause i still never spell the damn word the same twice!

European Law

I'm a translator. I like to think I specialise in law but hardly ever get any legal work - am currently translating a brochure for a company making toilet cubicles. BAH!

I did a teaching degree in Business Education. I then went on to teach IT and Business for 9 years. Now left and do advise to prisoners Need my teaching qualification for this though.

DH studied law and is now a solicitor, and loves it.

wow hula there's something you don't hear often

Me -Education but went on to work in social work and housing fields (SAHM at the moment)

DP -Languages but now is a builder/carpenter

me: English and German, DPhil in German, briefest of stints in personnel marketing, now lecturing in English (language/cultural studies/translation)
dh: psychology, now doing PhD on history of psychology

Ooh, FIT, I did English and German too. Now an editor/production editor. DH did computing, and now works, surprise, surprise, in computers.

Me - degree & PhD chemistry, worked as research polymer chemist, moved into business development and sales for same company, now working on projects to develop complex systems as a system engineer as this fits in with my part-time status.

DH - degree & PhD chemistry, worked as an organic synthetic chemist (same organisation as me), became project manager, then programme manager and then moved to new science and technology organisation to become business development manager. He is also studying for an MBA via the OU.

DH did a Music BA and is a development manager for a charity.

I did a Chemistry BSc and then a primary PGCE.
I was a primary school teacher for just over a year and am now an accountant.

gosh - feel quite the dunce with a mere BA (& couple of postgrad diplomas, seeing as we're counting)! So many of you have Phds!

Dh did something with Chemistry and some other Science.
He now works with children with Special Needs.

God, this thread is utterly fascinating.

CD you mean DH loving his work as a solicitor? I get that impression on MN a fair bit that many people on here haven't liked it. But DH does truely love his job. He is now a partner. He specialises in an area of law he is really interested in and he is prettay ambitious and it is paying off for him now. He wanted to be a solicitor right from I when I met him, age 16. He must have chosen well I guess!

I did a BA in English, then an MA in English, then I did various slightly half-arsed lefty things, and now I'm a journalist.

DP did a degree in geography and then MAs in various things the details of which I cannot exactly remember and now he doshes out huge amounts of money to environmental organisations.

My English degree doesn't seem to have done me that badly, frankly, and I very much enjoyed doing it and the fact that I am not absolutely rolling in money now is more the result of the career choices I have subsequently made than the subject itself. (And I like what I do now.)