Who has a degree and doesn't use for their job?

How many people have done this? For my job I don't need a degree but I have it any way, I have several friends who don't use their degree either! The only downside is repaying my student loan, doh!

So who else is the same?

I did my BSc in Maths, Stats and Operational Reseach and my Masters in Applied Mathematics

Do I use it in my job? LOL BIG NOOOOOOOO

Got a degree in Aerospace Engineering. (doing a placement year, but I've only got about 3-4months left to get my masters) but no way in hell do I want to be an engineer. It's not worth being one at all. I'd rather work behind a bar

[the_lone_wolf]

dizzy, why do you not want to be an engineer? they're like scientists with social skills...

little known fact of the day - the_lone_wolf BSc has a degree in physics, but realised in his last year he should have done marine engineering, i now work as a civil engineer and enjoy it, but highly doubt it'll be what i'm doing when i retire

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

dizzy, why do you not want to be an engineer? they're like scientists with social skills...

little known fact of the day - the_lone_wolf BSc has a degree in physics, but realised in his last year he should have done marine engineering, i now work as a civil engineer and enjoy it, but highly doubt it'll be what i'm doing when i retire

There's no ladder, where you start you just sit for the rest of your life. Little ****s with management degrees become your boss as there's no benefit in companies promoting people with technical knowledge, they need it somewhere it can be applied. Civil & chemical engineering seems different though.

(I'm just being a miserable git too atm)

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

(I'm just being a miserable git too atm)

you hide it so well

Hehe. Well I do try

I use my 3 degrees at full blast when mincing around with my hoover? Does that count?

[timwilky]

Mine is Mech Eng. Got out of it and into IT back in 83.

Engineers in this country are treated poorly. Joe Public thinks Engineers are the guys who fix their bust washing machines.

We had one director stupidly talking about my departments salary bill say "We are an engineering company, we pay engineering rates". To which I said you are attempting to use IT to achieve business advantage, For that you need to employ and pay for IT specialists with Engineering knowhow" That costs even more than straight IT types.

As an IT dept, we employed mechanical, electrical chemical engineers, reactor control specialists, mathematicians and physicists. Although we did have one guy with a degree in fine art

Originally Posted by timwilky

Mine is Mech Eng. Got out of it and into IT back in 83.

Engineers in this country are treated poorly. Joe Public thinks Engineers are the guys who fix their bust washing machines.

We had one director stupidly talking about my departments salary bill say "We are an engineering company, we pay engineering rates". To which I said you are attempting to use IT to achieve business advantage, For that you need to employ and pay for IT specialists with Engineering knowhow" That costs even more than straight IT types.

As an IT dept, we employed mechanical, electrical chemical engineers, reactor control specialists, mathematicians and physicists. Although we did have one guy with a degree in fine art

Mines aerospace, so pretty much identical to mech eng.

I know someone who is doing as well as he could. Started at 22 as a MEng engineer earning 25k with a massive company (you will know them), now he's the manager of perhaps 200 people with a turnover in the multi millions and he's on 28k....after 8 years. That's why I don't like engineering. It's not about the money, it's about them not taking the ****.