# Useful college degrees vs. following your dreams

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**Created:** [January 15, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/useful-college-degrees-vs-following-your-dreams/249761 "2010-01-15T12:27:22Z")
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### Author: ![Mark355](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mark355/32/6528_2.png) [@Mark355](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mark355)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/useful-college-degrees-vs-following-your-dreams/249761/9 "2010-01-15T16:55:30Z")

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> [@wtb: DSM 2ga fenders](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-dsm-2ga-fenders/28369/2):
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> With a theater degree, they could probably use him over at a Saturn dealership so he can act excited about their products.

:lmao

I think over half of graduates end up working in fields unrelated to their major. That would kinda bother me. Four years is a long time to pour effort into something to just blow it off afterwards.

I earned my B.S. in Comp Engineering, which I guess is an IT degree on the whole but I work in telecom now as a Network Tech doing data/telephony systems. Not quite IT, but not far off. My first job out of school was in IT and only now do I realize how badly I was treated. Telecom folks are happy to have you whereas IT people think they’re doing you a favor in keeping you around.

Stay the fuck away from IT.

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