[CarolinaDG]

Ok, first of all I think we got off track of what the original posting was. My advise there is pretty much the same as everyone else's has been... try to find something related to education somehow. If nothing else, intern.


On the off-track sub-thread that we've created:

The job market is just FRUSTRATING right now to say the least. I got a degree in music. Not exactly a high market for music majors, but if you consider the fact that most music majors (in fact, all except me at my school) become music majors to perform or teach, it would seem that someone like me would have a fairly easy time finding a job. Here's why:

1-I want to go into arts administration. Most job postings look for someone with an arts-related degree and some sort of background in whatever particular job (public relations, fundraising, volunteers, whatever).

2-In college, I busted my ASS. I held two different offices in my sorority, three different offices in other organizations, did public relations for three organizations, was a member of innumerable organizations, organized a (very successful) fundraising campaign, graduated top 50 out of 6000 for contributions to the campus community, etc, etc, etc....

3-I held a business minor. Basically, while I earned my music degree, I was about 2 courses shy of a second major in economics, which I could always go back and get.

I have heard stories from educations majors, sports broadcasting majors, public relations majors (and the public relations major that I heard from was on the number 2 undergraduate public relations team in the country and graduated top 20 out of 6,000 for contributions to the campus community) and of course the accounting majors. Of these, only the accounting majors have jobs (at least, jobs that they like). And one of the two accounting majors that I've talked to did very little in college, didn't intern or anything. My question, particularly for DeltAlum since you are an ex-hiring manager who says majors are very important, is why would companies rather have someone with the "right" major than someone who may be a couple of classes short of the "right" major who is obviously hard-working, dedicated, motivated, and PROBABLY easily trained? In other words, I took an accounting class, too, and I know about journal entries and general ledgers (and to stick up for the accounting major, it's not much math... some calculator usage, but not much math). You could always train ME to fill in where the gaps in my education left off, instead of counting on the person with the "right degree" who might not have even shown up to class and has forgotten all of it, anyway. I'm not trying to get anyone mad with this post, I just SERIOUSLY would like to know, because it seems a little ridiculous to me. But that's just my entry-level, $27,000/year-making, mind talking.