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Offline PJ_Godzilla

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« Reply #195 on: June 03, 2014, 05:10:53 AM »
Actually, I like this one better, though it's the same source of research (Georgetown). That median data doesn't tell the whole story, since there's a lot of scatter by subcategory. For example, check out the social sciences and you'll see that sociology is on the low end, econ on the high end:  http://cew.georgetown.edu/whatsitworth

As for the link above, per usual, I want more data behind the metrics. As you note, Brooke, they offer little/no explanation. THat's why I went to the GT site to begin; to try to understand what was behind the report. They don't  make clear, and citing the fact that it's based on census data doesn't help, whether the grads of "the field" cited, are actually wokring in the field they studied. Consider, for example, that my sister works in management at Sears holdings. She has a couple of grad degrees ( UM/Boston, IIRC) in Music, meow, meow, for god's sake. She was a concert violinist and left that field long ago because it doesn't pay. So how would that show on the survey?
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« Reply #196 on: June 03, 2014, 05:53:36 AM »
Sr. Large Loss Property Adjuster for a major insurance company
 
Prior to that I did residential and commercial consulting/reconstruction of structures from insured losses ( fires, floods,tornados,hurricanes etc etc )

Took mr 15yrs to realize it's easier to give the money away than collect it  :)

In all seriousness it's a great job. I get to work from home and make my own schedule. Most importantly,  I get to help people when things are at their worst and get to do it for a company that actually really cares about their policyholders.  (Something that is missing in the insurance world now a days )
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Re: Your profession?
« Reply #197 on: June 03, 2014, 06:40:18 AM »
<-- Software Business Analyst  (holding a degree in Computer Science & Software engineering, MBA in Management of IT Technologies & E-Business )...
basically I take your Business Idea an turn it into a money making software solution & / Or improve your companies Business Processes....


boring stuff....
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« Reply #198 on: June 03, 2014, 10:32:32 AM »
<-- Software Business Analyst  (holding a degree in Computer Science & Software engineering, MBA in Management of IT Technologies & E-Business )...
basically I take your Business Idea an turn it into a money making software solution & / Or improve your companies Business Processes....


boring stuff....

Not at all... Indeed, turning business processes into proto software tools is, imj, one of the purest forms of logic problems we have.

The funniest thing here:  We've got IT people who will now actually go out to find out what prot software we code in excel/vba in a quest to be more "relevant"
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« Reply #199 on: June 03, 2014, 10:42:24 AM »
Aerospace Engineer

Over the past 35 yrs I've worked on
F-111
F-16 (got a funny story about the F-16XL rollout)
A-7
NASA F8U variant
Space Shuttle
International Space Station
Several missile programs
And a few programs I can't talk about  :cool:

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« Reply #200 on: June 03, 2014, 10:51:33 AM »
Dishwasher, paratrooper, ditch digger, cab driver, police officer/ crash rescue firefighter, security officer, jump pilot, warbirds pilot, Emergency Room clerk and now sailing vessel captain.


The more fun ones pay the least. ;)
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« Reply #201 on: June 03, 2014, 11:50:49 AM »
Dishwasher, paratrooper, ditch digger, cab driver, police officer/ crash rescue firefighter, security officer, jump pilot, warbirds pilot, Emergency Room clerk and now sailing vessel captain.


The more fun ones pay the least. ;)

Go with "Renaissance Man". You've earned it.  :salute
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« Reply #202 on: June 03, 2014, 01:09:33 PM »
<---- Software Engineer.
Actually, these days, I lead a small team of them, but I still get to do some coding myself too. As for the debate about STEM fields, it depends on the STEM field and the job you choose to do. I have friends who have PHDs from Berkeley in Bio-Chemistry and they don't make that much money, but then again, they are doing research at a university....

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« Reply #203 on: June 03, 2014, 02:11:54 PM »
Talking about art history, take a look at this Ph. D., Specialist of Art Markets. Being one of our leading experts in her branch I believe "unemployed" doesn't belong to her vocabulary...
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« Reply #204 on: June 03, 2014, 03:25:11 PM »
If you think being a full time student is a cushy life of screwing around, you didn't take college very seriously.

It depends on the quality of the HS you went too. I went to public school and I was surprised when I went to university at the discrepancy between the students. Personally, I felt the first two years of university were easy and the last two were very hard. I will say that within the engineering program I was in, many students dropped out/switched majors (most to biz) within the first two years. Usually, it was because they found business school to be easier (I'm guessing it was the math classes that were the issue).
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« Reply #205 on: June 03, 2014, 03:33:16 PM »

She has a couple of grad degrees ( UM/Boston, IIRC) in Music, meow, meow, for god's sake. She was a concert violinist and left that field long ago because it doesn't pay. So how would that show on the survey?

What does "meow, meow, for god's sake" mean?
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« Reply #206 on: June 03, 2014, 03:42:57 PM »
Hilarious. I wondered if anybody would notice that.  :aok - for you, Pembquist.

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Perhaps the radio DJ Mike "ButtMike" Clark..?
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« Reply #207 on: June 03, 2014, 03:45:55 PM »
Paramedic for last 26 yrs looking to get out hey Del how did ya get involved with what you do?
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« Reply #208 on: June 03, 2014, 03:47:33 PM »
It depends on the quality of the HS you went too. I went to public school and I was surprised when I went to university at the discrepancy between the students. Personally, I felt the first two years of university were easy and the last two were very hard. I will say that within the engineering program I was in, many students dropped out/switched majors (most to biz) within the first two years. Usually, it was because they found business school to be easier (I'm guessing it was the math classes that were the issue).


I agree. The attrition rate in the engineering curriculum was brutal. The last two years especially. I think we all experienced the same shock though. It's one thing to be one of the smart kids in your high school. The eye opener comes when you realize that ALL of your peers in college were the smart kids in THEIR high schools. It's an instant reality check.
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« Reply #209 on: June 03, 2014, 03:51:30 PM »
I agree. The attrition rate in the engineering curriculum was brutal. The last two years especially. I think we all experienced the same shock though. It's one thing to be one of the smart kids in your high school. The eye opener comes when you realize that ALL of your peers in college were the smart kids in THEIR high schools. It's an instant reality check.

Funny... My experience was that Grad school in Eng was hard and so was sophomore year, but, in the last two of undergrad, I had an eerie (it pissed off my study buddy no end) ability to perform so-so right up until the final. There, I'd rack something perfect or near-perfect.
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