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!

I studied History of Art and am a sahm... Used to be a shop assistant/personal shopper. Hardly scaling career heights.
dh didn't have any further education but has his own business.

tamum!
I was really checking you weren't my boss - I work in what could loosely be described as genetics and she's married to the principal investigator of her own group!
(sure there's a scandalous seduced-by-PhD-student story in there...)

it was a practical......

(kidding - was on media manipulation by terrorists and the psychology of terror. so in some ways prepared me for life as a PR terrorist... OH NO! Its a press release! run for your lives.....)

Oo-err, MrsBadger, how intriguing. Trying to think of all the people I know who it might be.. any clues location-wise? :)

naturally I wear camo to the office

Me- psychology then got a job in research. I've recently set up a small business doing something completely different and am not going back to work for anyone else again (fingers crossed !)

DH - Microbiology, followed by a Masters in something like Instrumention. Currently the technical guy of company specialising in sports software for broadcasting.

oh cupcakes - I'd have loved to study history of art! I came to appreciate such things quite late - too much of a heathen as a teenager to think of doing it (so just carried on with an A-level subject with v little thought). still have dreams of going to do something along these lines -interesting course at the V & A I've got my eye on but too expensive childcare-wise for now. Shame I can't somehow make out it's vocational to justify the cost

Meowmix, I studied medieval history in Berlin. Some things were great like the field trips - they sent us off to Israel/Syria for instance (crusades), as well as a couple of other places. Where did you do your MA?

Me - Physiology and Pharmacology, then job in drug safety at Medicines Control Agency/Committee on Safety of Medicines. Now do pharma research.

Dh - no degree, Account Manager for large recruitment agency.

hmm - I did (partly) medieval history too but no field trips. Obviously went to wrong place!

I did mine in Scotland. We had a choice of 2 field trips - 1) Rome in May, 2) Orkney in Feb.

I have never been so cold and wet in my life.

hope you went for Rome then?! Or was it unseasonal weather there?
did mine in London, best course was history of medicine at Wellcome Institute - grimly fascinating!

Studied English Literature and Language. Was a copywriter and exhibition text editor for an exhibition design company until dd2. Sounds grand, paid peanuts. Leave the paid work to dh now and seethe over misused apostrophes in my odd moment of child free time.

DH abandoned his degree in second year to work in technical side of theatre and now has own business earning far more than I could ever dream of earning.

Failed to fulfill my potential and hiding behind motherhood, panicing as to what i will do to justify my existence when youngest starts school? Me?

Me Economics and Mangement Science (joint hons): Marketing

Him Computers and he's a nerd

that works then

"Failed to fulfill my potential and hiding behind motherhood, panicing as to what i will do to justify my existence when youngest starts school?"
EL - are you me?

Me - music, then music college diploma, then masters in IT
was in IT, hoping to go back to music now

DH - history & English, then masters in Arthurian Literature (!) has been in classical music retail, then classical music marketing

currently we are both unemployed - sad eh!

MrsBadger - is your boss Belgian?

tamum, it's the place that's not Cambs

and no, not Belgian, unless doing a strikingly good job of hiding it

international rels and spanish

Ah well. Wondering idly if you and dh work together...

DH - medicine - doctor
Me - medicine - doctor.

!! Very unoriginal.

Always wanted to be an archaeologist, though.

Me - degree in genetics, working in diagnostic genetics
Dh - degree in electronic engineering, Msc in same, works as a manager in a software company.

I almost applied for chartered accountancy training after my degree, and although I would probably earn more, I'm glad I stayed with genetics.

me - english deg, pgdip publishing then you guessed it worked in publishing, then pressofficer and marketing in govt

dh - psychology deg, warehouse manager, journalist, web editor now doing the Knowledge and should soon be cabbie.

my degree only really served to get me on my pubs course. apart from that and the fact that I didn't really attend or study, it did nothing for me but I wouldn't have missed it as was great fun.

I did Public Administration and am an accountant in Local Government (on maternity leave

Dp did Law and Economics and is a lawyer.