What major did you graduate with and what's your job now?
I want to know how common is it to get a job in what you went to school for.
22-25, F
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OldBrit · 61-69, M
I left school at 18 and became a trainee computer programmer on a three year training course with a local firm (today it would be called an apprenticeship but in the early 1980s that seemed a word rarely used).
I completed the course with an hnd with distinctions. Equivalent to a level 5 (foundation degree) today. I continued to work for the company that trained me as a software engineer.
I moved company 6 times after that and swapped sectors a bit too, defence, publishing, financial services, financial regulation, pharmaceutical r&d and finally higher education.
Always in work until I took early retirement on health grounds at 57.
I completed the course with an hnd with distinctions. Equivalent to a level 5 (foundation degree) today. I continued to work for the company that trained me as a software engineer.
I moved company 6 times after that and swapped sectors a bit too, defence, publishing, financial services, financial regulation, pharmaceutical r&d and finally higher education.
Always in work until I took early retirement on health grounds at 57.