Marketing degree

Marketing Manager

Go me :D

The bolded is my life right now. My Senior Seminar English professor told us, "You guys better be looking at graduate schools, because you won't find too many jobs with your BA in English." You could imagine how deflated I was! My Pan-African Studies degree (also under liberal arts) has actually given me more opportunities than my English degree. My master degree program is in Cultural Foundations, which has already given me more future job options because it's under the field of Education.

I was a business major. I work as a Senior Center Manager.

Small world. I was just in Xenia/Wilberforce last weekend for homecoming weekend.

When I was there, I didn't know very many Iotas. I only knew them in passing. For the very few I knew by name, I only knew them on a first name basis. I've always been bad with names, though.

Yup.

Me too.

My undergrad degree is in journalism, which I parlayed into a career in public relations. I was a stay at home mom for several years but still did freelance work. When I decided to go back to work, I took a high level marketing job in a hospital system but I decided that it wasn't something I wanted to continue doing.

I went back to school and got a masters in Health Information Management and am currently using it and am enjoying it very much :)

There are two ways to look at a college degree. Some degrees give you specific skills to do one career. Other ones give you more general skills but without the skills to do one particular thing. Both have advantages and disadvantages. I did the first one and ended up having to take more classes to change careers because that was all I knew how to do. Additionally, "they" say that 80% of today's kindergartners will have a job that doesn't even exist yet. Think about that. In 20 years, 80% will have a job that doesn't even exist yet.

Focus on your skill set- think about how you could use it. Be creative with it.

I can totally say that my current career (Information Security) did not exist when I was in college. There was nothing to secure computers from- the Internet didn't exist. You don't know what the future will bring, but I can say that excellent writing skills can take you a long way in a lot of industries.

I'm just on my Debbie Downer about my job lately, but it pays for school. While it is a HUGE blessing (and temporary) it's just a job. I'll have my degree next December, so I just have to stay the course. My skill set is all over the place. I love writing poems/stories/scripts (something I do on the side, but it doesn't pay the bills), I make pretty cool Greek gifts for people (also not enough to pay the bills). I have narrowed down my interests to higher education (to pay the bills). :D I actually have a Soror that works in campus life and her degree path has been similar to mine. I'm going to ask if I can shadow her during my free time, as she already has her Ph.D.

I have six degrees and I'm working on my 7th. All of my degrees are pretty relevant to what I am doing because they give me more relevant examples to use when teaching classes at a university. My undergraduate degrees led to my first job out of college as I worked on my first master's degree. Doing well in my first master's degree led to my second master's degree that contributed to what I was doing in my field. I'm licensed and credentialed which led to me getting accepted into a doctoral program to teach others what I have done in my particular field.

So, I would say that, "Yes," I am doing something related to my degrees. I'm also very happy to have these opportunities and I believe a big part of getting the chance to further my education is also based on where I attended school and how involved I have been with my alma maters after graduation.

That's really interesting. Any specific cars you've worked on?

On a different note, I just went to my first LA alum meeting. It was interesting meeting sisters in this market and the variety of career choices that they made. I love to explore how people arrived at their major/career decisions since my parents (well really mom) was very adamant that we have a practical major, ie. nursing, medicine, teaching, law. That's it, and the whole time I was in school my mom bugged me to go to nursing school to have something to "fall back on" if med school didn't work out. I was amazed in college that others had viable majors not on the "approved" list and they turned out just fine. The LA career scene was even more innovative and interesting. My mom's head would have exploded. ;)

Another NUPE doing what we do best. Achieving. This is good stuff, Phi. There proabably aren't very many black car designers, are there? I remember you saying you had a brother who was also a bruh. At the time, I was about to ask you where he pledged. Who was a bruh first, you or him or were y'all on line together?

I started off as a political science major, but I changed it to business. I'm a franchise owner, now. I never wanted to be in the food industry, but here I am, and it's not that bad. I actually like it. But it can be stressful at times.

I think we had the same parents. I was pre-med my freshman year but I just couldn't hack the zoology lab - had to cut the still beating heart out of a (supposedly) brain dead frog and hook it up to a machine. The poor creature was pushing the scalpel away as I was trying to cut into it and that was it for me. I walked out of that lab and over to my counselor to see what major I might be able to switch to. My parents were upset but "approved" my switch to Finance. Luckily it worked out well for me but I know a lot of people would rather be waterboarded than have to deal with numbers and accounting!

Good writing is underrated and good writers are hard to find. Don't underestimate that BA in English just yet! In the technical fields, it's really difficult to find someone who can write clearly.

While I majored in Architecture, and went to get an MS in Historic Preservation, and I happen to be an architect who specializes in historic restoration, it's not "what I went to school for." Part of college, at least at the liberal arts level, is about having a well-rounded education. I didn't take just architecture classes--I took history, poli sci, urban affairs, and Italian classes. It's the education I have that allows me to be able to talk to most people about anything. If I needed to, I have an educational and (now) professional background to go into many different things.

In my group of friends (late 20s to mid 30s) it's a real mix. I'd say about half are using their undergrad degree every day. Of the other half, they're doing what they went to grad school for, and there are maybe 25% of us who had such vague degrees that anything they do could apply. Granted, we're still relatively young and weren't hit that hard by the recession--so YMMV.

I've worked on several vehicles. But, out of those designs of different cars and trucks, I've shortlisted on four. The Lexus LF-LC being one of those shortlisted concept cars I worked on with a team of other designers, and the one I'm most proud of. http://youtu.be/QxhYPtzU0gA

I'm not sure about product designers, but with auto, the numbers are relatively small when compared to other professions. The numbers are somewhat small, but there are quite a few black auto designers in high positions.

Nope. We weren't on the same line, but we pledged the same year. He pledged and crossed at Meharry (Kappa Chapter). He crossed two months before I did, and then he came down with one of his Sands and they saw me while my line was still pledging. It was a very interesting experience LOL.