I noticed alot of engineering majors have popped up in here.  How many have gone on to get the PE, or is it unecessary in your field.  I know for me in Civil, it was a must. 

There were a huge number of careers in electronics that did not require a P.E. when I graduated, so I never pursued it.  Those careers were digital design and microprocessor design and/or programming. 

 

Civil Engineering was hot stuff after the Clean Water Act (1970?) because of the new water works and sewer plants that were required.  Ohio could use more secondary wastewater plants.  Columbus just built one.

I noticed alot of engineering majors have popped up in here. How many have gone on to get the PE, or is it unecessary in your field. I know for me in Civil, it was a must.

 

I've found PE's to be very rare in mechanical engineering.  I did take and pass the FE test, but I have no plans on taking the PE test when eligible in a couple years.  It's just not necessary in any of my potential career paths.

B.S. in Telecommunications from Scripps. I also completed a Corollary in Film (between a major and a minor) and Minor in Sociology. Sociology was actually my favorite concentration. I liked most of the kids I had class with, which I couldn't say as easily about Tcom. I was only three courses short of the Sociology major, but didn't want to go back to school for another year (each course was in a seperate quarter- gotta love how OU schedules to maximize revenue!). Plus everybody was saying there were no jobs in it unless you went on to grad school. I also took some higher-level courses in Oceanography, English, Journalism, Geography, and Statistics. For non-major courses, I never took any fluff. I figured my family and I were paying a sh!t ton of money, I might as well challenge myself. Those tough electives hurt my GPA, but I think it was worth it. I learned more in those classes than I did in most of my major courses. I also came up a course or two short of a Spanish minor. That's something I might want to finish in the future. There is a lot of growth in Spanish-language television right now. Knowing Spanish is huge. I think it will be required in the future. I've got a feeling if you don't know Spanish, it's adios muchachos!

 

I I actually started to get pretty good at college before I left, and I wouldn't mind knocking out a few more majors and minors (or grad school). College is great- the greatest bubble of them all.

I added an option for those in my boat - attended college, but no degree. I left Kent State before finishing my degree - several reasons, but the biggest was that I had to take a break after a close friend was killed in a horrible car accident. It had been a stressful semester regardless, but when that happened I realized I needed to give it a break and if the time came, I'd go back to finish. I was also seeing my debts mounting from student loans so I started working shortly after - and have kept working since. I'm probably about a year's worth of classes from finishing but some of the classes I'd need are only offered every other year, usually during regular working hours, and then being an hour-ish commute (each way) on top of that - it's just never been practical for me. I wouldn't want to transfer credits to a closer school, and most colleges won't permit it if you have a certain amount already invested. It's easy for people to say "go back and finish!!!". Live my life and then realize it's not that simple.

 

Sure if the situation was ideal, I'd go back in a heartbeat and finish but not having my degree hasn't been *that* big of a detriment. I don't lie on my resume, I simply say I've completed ___ amount of credit hours. Employers have asked, I've explained the situation and none saw it as a huge issue. I can't complain - I've been gainfully employed in a field that I love for 17 years, I've been able to do some really fun creative freelance work in design and photography, I've become a published author, and had one of my photos used on a TV show that's been seen by 33 million people around the world. Yeah, it'd be nice to have the degree, but there are plenty of people who need to go back and finish more than I do :-)

 

In creative fields, I don't think it ever matters. I never once have been asked about college in interviews (unless it was about Halloween and Palmerfest), and I know just as many people without degrees working in my field as people with degrees. There is no difference. All that matters is your work and skillset, which I'm sure you already know. Most employers will hire you before they hire "Suzy Just Graduated from State U" with no experience.

 

And the reasons you have for not finishing are perfectly understandable. Anyone who would hold that against you is an asshole you probably don't want to work for anyway.

B.A. History, B.A. Political Science - University of Toledo, M.A. History University of Cincinnati - PhD. History University of Cincinnati - 20th century American cities and religion, w/ a minor in modern European history. All those and dollar will get you just about a pack of gum.

 

Well, for what it's worth, based on your posts, you learned a lot. Maybe it does just get you a pack of gum, but a really fancy pack of gum.:wink: Did you ever work in one of those fields?

B.S. in Computer Engineering from UD and will be working on getting an Electrical Engineering degree from CSU.

B.S. in Telecommunications from Scripps. I also completed a Corollary in Film (between a major and a minor) and Minor in Sociology. Sociology was actually my favorite concentration. I liked most of the kids I had class with, which I couldn't say as easily about Tcom. I was only three courses short of the Sociology major, but didn't want to go back to school for another year (each course was in a seperate quarter- gotta love how OU schedules to maximize revenue!). Plus everybody was saying there were no jobs in it unless you went on to grad school. I also took some higher-level courses in Oceanography, English, Journalism, Geography, and Statistics. For non-major courses, I never took any fluff. I figured my family and I were paying a sh!t ton of money, I might as well challenge myself. Those tough electives hurt my GPA, but I think it was worth it. I learned more in those classes than I did in most of my major courses. I also came up a course or two short of a Spanish minor. That's something I might want to finish in the future. There is a lot of growth in Spanish-language television right now. Knowing Spanish is huge. I think it will be required in the future. I've got a feeling if you don't know Spanish, it's adios muchachos!

I I actually started to get pretty good at college before I left, and I wouldn't mind knocking out a few more majors and minors (or grad school). College is great- the greatest bubble of them all.

 

I've been saying that for years!

^And rightly so. :wink: I'm seeing more and more of the good job ads saying "Spanish preferred" or "Spanish required."

BA psychology

 

JD (passed OH bar)

 

Masters (urban planning)

 

and for C-Dawg---fluent in Spanish due to 3.5 years in latin america

 

 

 

Next question, how many of the numerous JD's out there are practicing law?

Hah!  I'd guess that most of us are.  There are always some people willing to hang up the degree, but I'm guessing most are still using it.  I certainly am, and fully expect to use it for my entire working life (though of course, life tends to throw the unexpected in people's path--life seems to find this funny sometimes).

B.S. in Computer Engineering from UD and will be working on getting an Electrical Engineering degree from CSU.

I would recommend taking electives in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management.  The courses cover bills of materials and quality systems.  Those skills are key if you go to work in a company that manufactures products (and that is most Ohio engineering jobs).

I'm not practicing law. I chose to go into banking instead.

i'm one of those non-jd doctors

 

ba bio/chem cwru

md toledo

pathology resident at metrohealth now, i'll do your autopsy

i'm one of those non-jd doctors

 

ba bio/chem cwru

md toledo

pathology resident at metrohealth now, i'll do your autopsy

 

My brother-in-law is a UT med school pathologist and now is one of the Coroners in Phoenix. However he did his residency in Miami-Dade and the stories he had and some of the pictures he showed us blew my mind. Crime is really no joke down.

there.

 

Lopsided are you going to look for a coroner job or are you more into disease pathology?

 

My brother-in-law is a UT med school pathologist and now is one of the Coroners in Phoenix. However he did his residency in Miami-Dade and the stories he had and some of the pictures he showed us blew my mind. Crime is really no joke down.

there.

 

 

lol. I take it your brother was not in any chamber of commerce commercials...

i'll probably end up doing surgical path, not sure of what organ system to focus on yet, fellowship is 2.5 years away.

 

as residents we are required to complete 50 autopsies, most pathologists want nothing to do with it after getting their 50, 'cept for those forensics folks.

 

one of my co-residents wants to do forensics, she went to med school in ft lauderdale. i'll ask if she spent any time at the coroner's office in miami.

i'm one of those non-jd doctors

 

ba bio/chem cwru

md toledo

pathology resident at metrohealth now, i'll do your autopsy

I'm largely uneducated in the formal sense. I have a high school diploma and an assortment of random credits from Purdue and IU from courses I took when I found a need for them in my work. I learned the machinist-toolmaker's trade through an apprenticeship and learned arc and MIG welding through night courses at a community vocational school, and used those skills for several years in three different shops, acquired some college credit and learned accounting and some rudimentary computer skills through OJT during my four years' active duty in the USAF, worked in manufacturing cost analysis for sixteen years and in material control and production planning for five years at GE, and did PC and network tech support at Lincoln Financial for nine years before being outsourced to IBM, where I put up with the corporate crap for two years while trying not to choke on it. I retired in 2001.

 

I'm glad I got my education out of the way many years ago, before there was so much stuff to learn  :wink:. That said, I can't forget how my aunt, who earned her MD in 1939 as the only woman in her class at IU, and practiced for almost forty years, repeatedly told me in my teen years that I'd never amount to anything without a degree. Now that I'm 71 and have learned to somewhat manage my ADHD, sometimes I think about pulling together all my credits and work experience and talking to a counselor at IPFW, the local IU-Purdue joint campus, to see what I still need to get a diploma of some sort. When my end comes, I'd hate passing on without ever having amounted to anything. :-D

I started out at Youngstown State majoring in accounting. Then when i was 20 i got hired at Delphi Packard Electric in Warren (made wiring harnesses for GM vehicles). After about a year of working my "real" job, i quit school after i achieved junior standing. I was making more than double my minimum wage earning friends, bought a house, and was on afternoon shift. Everyone kept telling me that i needed to finish school and i always said i would when i could hold day turn.

 

When i was 26 i decided i was going to go back part time, but i was not going back to YSU. The advisers in the business school were complete biyatches. I found YSU wasn't very accommodating to me having a "real" job and they scolded me for not taking bridge classes (which i didn't know about) when they switched from quarters to semesters. I was told i would have to take all of my Econ and Stats courses over again (forget that crap!).

 

So long story short i enrolled at Kent Trumbull, transferred just about all my credits from YSU to Kent (about 60 when all was said and done) and graduated in 2008 (at the age of 29) with my Bachelor's of Business Administration in Management. Not once did i have to go to the main campus to get my degree, i had professors who had actually worked out in the real world, and I had plenty of great life/work experiences to share in class. After working in manufacturing it was much easier to understand TQM, lean, operations management, etc.

I can't believe there aren't any other theater people on here! We need some more folks involved with that side of the arts on this board to round it out IMO.

OompaLoompa is in theater.

BA in Criminal Justice from NKU.

Next question, how many of the numerous JD's out there are practicing law?

 

I don't practice. By the time I was in my third year of law school, I had decided to go the urban planning route.

OompaLoompa is in theater.

 

Thx! Yay!

I can't believe there aren't any other theater people on here! We need some more folks involved with that side of the arts on this board to round it out IMO.

 

A few of our forumers, even though they didn't major in theater, are very much into drama.  :-D

A few?  More like half.

A few?  More like half.

 

^one of the best graphics ever posted here!

A few? More like half.

 

 

Don't get your feelings hurt, Sosa.

^one of the best graphics ever posted here!

and used so appropriately.  :wink:

AA in General Studies because I still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up.

BS Molecular Biology (THE Otterbein College), MD (THE University of Cincinnati), Emergency Medicine Residency (THE Vanderbilt University).

I agree, great graphic!

B.A. Sociology, from THE Bowling Green State University.

Bachelor of Science degree.  Major in Computer Science, minor in Mathematics. 

 

I worked for a little over twelve years in the IT department of a property/casualty insurance company.  I resigned last month to become a stay-at-home mom for at least a couple of years.  When the time comes for me to reenter the work force, I will either need to take some classes to catch up with the technology, or I may decide to go into another field.