I am sure I will get hammered but I am seriously curious! Conducting an impromptu survey for a project.

Who went to college?
Where and when?
Graduate?
Degree?

I will begin...

University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH...83-86
Took a semester off after 3 years and never looked back...Been a long semester break!
No degree

Texas Tech University Bachelors degree

Wayland Baptist University MBA

FJ, similar deal here.

University of Montana

2000-2002

Dropout


Still not sure what I want to do with my life!

ITT Tech for 2 Weeks....

couldn't take the pressure...

Roane State Comm College
East TN State University
1997 - 2002
Yes
1-8 Education

Teaching 8th grade American History

WenT juSt fro tHhe girls.

ALA 8 yaers! An't goin no Moor!

I've been enrolled in 4 different colleges, I have an AS in Electronics and an AS in Computer Engineering. I need another 30 hours for my BS.

PHD, post hole digger, School of Hard Knocks.

School colours, Black, and Blue

School yell, "OCH!"

Dropout too. Didn't learn the first time and started and quit again. Still don't know what I wanna do. I think I wanna be some of you Montana guys

Southern Oregon College
Graduated in 1974
Dual Major - Political Science and History

BS Environmental Science 2002 from Mercer University in Georgia

MS Forest Resources 2010 from University of Idaho... they say don't leave until you finish but when the money runs out you gotta go. Thus 7 years for a 2 year degree.

Oklahoma Christian College
Edmond OK
1971
Flunked out

Freed-Hardemon College
Henderson TN
1976
Transfered

Oklahoma State University
Stillwater OK
1977-1980
BS Wildlife Ecology

SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
Bachelors in 1975, Masters in 1980
Dual Major - Education & History ( spent 35 years teaching History)

MIT '32 Ph.D.

Cybernetics
High Pressure, low temperature, LN2 production

Inventor of the heat-seeking, moisture-missile.

1990-1994
UW-Stevens Point
BS Biology/BS Natural Resources

1999-2001
Colorado State University
MS Student Affairs in Higher Ed

and I work at University of Alaska Anchorage

I got them suckers - now they pay me!

Northwestern - Oklahoma state university
BS Wildlife Bioloy

School of hard Knocks East KY!!!!!!!!!Bachelors Degree.....

Michigan State - BS Forestry 1999

Central Michigan - Masters Public Administration 2004

College of St Joseph (very small local school)
Started 1992
Graduated 2005 (took a few long breaks)

BS Computer Information Systems

Berry College
BS Industrial Arts Education 1980
Masters 1988

Taught HS Industrial Arts 1980-1993 when it was phased out and replaced with Technology Education. Retired May 2010.

66-70 West.MI.Univ. BS Tech/Ind.Arts Education
75-76 East.MI.Univ. MA Educational Admin.
31 years retired, Teacher & School Admin.

Yep, BS in Sociology, BS in Psychology and Associate Degree in Retail Management from NYU.

Frankly, I left the universities feeling that I was not an educated person, so I spent fully thirty more years trying to educate myself. All I learned was that there is so much to know and life is very short.

I never needed the education or the degrees for my business.

kd

University of Georgia
BS Econ 1979
Masters Econ 1981

Go Dawgs!

SUNY Morrisville
1981 Journalism (almost ashamed to admit that)
Worked briefly in the field but realized I wasn't going to succeed in that liberal, agenda driven arena.

When asked how I got into corrections from journalism I tell people that being around inmates allowed me to associate with a better class of people than my journalistic peers.

SWTSU (now Texas State). Dropped out after one month work for 6 months and then joined the Marine Corps.

No regrets!

Eastern Michigan University. Bachelor's in Technical Writing and Psychology.

That said, I can't work in an office environment without killing someone or multiple people. I am also a Journeyman Carpenter and Millwright. It (normally) takes 4 years of apprenticeship to obtain Journeyman status for each trade, respectively...........

Eastern KY University
1973-1978
Graduated - Biology major , Chemistry minor
BS In Biology

Tech school
Lake Superior College 95-99
2 degrees
Fire Fighting and
Civil engineering technician

Edited to add...currently attending U of MN For construction management.

B.A., Zoology, University of Texas, M.S. and Ph.D., Wildlife Ecology, Texas A&M University.

University Of Cincinnati- Criminal Justice
Mountain State University- Bachelor Administration in Criminal Justice

Two bachelor degrees - Animal Science- Minor in Chemistry & Biology & Minor in Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
BS - Electrical Engineering Technology 1994
MS - Information Technology (finish all course work but drop out and thus did not do my thesis ... 7 years past and it's all gone!)

That is what happens when you meet a pretty girl!

Misc. OK state colleges(juvenile delinquent) 92-93
Manuel labor in a copper plant(refocus..) 93-94
Oklahoma State University 95-97

B.S. Mechanical Engineering Technology

wish I would have been kicked in the butt in H.S., went to trade school and been a Machinist/Tool Die Mkr.

University of Idaho-BS in Wildlife Resources
University of Montana-BA in Organismal Biology and Ecology

Currently in Oregon State's Online Masters of Natural Resources Program getting a Master's Degree

Never even considered it.

Although, looking back I wish I did because I would love to be a lawyer.



Travis

I'd put my degree down, but I swear it looks like we have too many people on the Campfire with a BS in Biology already�

BS in Mechanical Engineering.

Me too on the lawyer part...

BS, Texas A&M University, Wildlife & Fisheries Science

Wilkes Community College, AAS
Appalachian State University, BA, MA History with minors in Political Science and Religion
University of Arkansas, Post Graduate PHd. studies in History.

Started at Penn State in 1979, booted out for poor scholarship in 1983. Went back part time in 1992, graduated in 1994 (made Dean's List my last semester) with a BS in Agronomy.

Looking back, I should have worked a couple of years or went military right after high school, I needed to gain some maturity.

Dale

SWTSU BS Anthropology
UT Austin MA Anthropology

Thought about perusing my PhD in Biological Anthropology but decided a life in academia wasn't my cup of tea.

Went into the IT field and obtained a slew of certifications (CompTIA, Novell, Microsoft, Cisco) and have been quite content.

Currently enrolled at University of Alabama at Huntsville.

Computer Science Major/ Math minor

Elim Bible Institute 1996, Major - The Bible

BS, Business Education, Texas Tech Univ.

MA, Educational Administration, Univ. of Texas Permian Basin

Spent one lost semester at the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University) in 1972. Got bored and joined the Navy. After retiring from the Navy, the GI Bill paid for my degree at the University of San Diego, BA Biology (1997).

Personally, I needed to grow up and UNH was not the place...winters are long and the drinking was legendary to the point of always making some silly top 10 list...I did my part to bolster the reputation....

....I regret not having joined the military after HS...I really needed to grow up.

University of Mississippi, graduated with a BA in Psychology of all things in '72. Got an NROTC scholarship my sophomore year and the next thing you know I spent 21 years as a Navy fighter pilot.

University of Wyoming
1983-1985
Comparative Anatomy

University of Wyoming
1988-1991
B.S. Coldbrewsology

Psychology to a fighter pilot? Man! I thought all pilots were math/science guys...you must have had the science gene buried!

Go Rebs!

as for me....BS in Pharmacy, 1974, Ole Miss by damn......

I have been a great starter...not a great finisher...never finished my Bachelors...moons later I was 2 classes shy of AS in Fire Science and Admin. After that I went through all the hoops of getting accepted to a pretty selective Nursing program with the thought of working per diem as an RN on days off from FireFighting...would have been a huge help as I stare down my 2 kids getting ready for college.....never enrolled...sonofabitch!

PHD. Plain Highschool Diploma. Joined the Marine Corps at 17 and graduated bootcamp on my 18th birthday, almost 25 years ago now and still going.

Same as some of you, wondering what to do when I grow up.

BA Political Science, Minor in History
Univ of West Georgia
After 5 yrs in the Army and worked full time all the way through on the 3/4 time student schedule which took 5 yrs instead of 4.

Mike

Hmmm

1997 - UW-Oshkosh went for 6 weeks. Poly-sci. Hated the school and got the little woman knocked up. Went to work.

2002 - Defense Language Institute Monterey - Navy language school, conferred a pile of credits to me

2008 - ITT for Software Engineering - loved the classes, hated the school and expense. Realized it didn't have a great rep in the area

2013 - September to now. Concordia University. 24 credits a semester while working full time. Love the school and program. Business Management

BS in Biology and Geology. AS in computer sci.

I'm decent in math but no expert and I like to show our flight students different ways they can use Trig in some situations. I've got them fooled 'cause most of them think I'm a math whiz...little do they know. Once in a while one of my students will ask what my major was and the look at me like "you must be kidding"! There are a few Liberal Arts types around; we have to balance out all engineers somehow!

Westminster College: BS Business with a chem minor.

University of Pittsburgh let me in their Pharmacy program starting with the third year of a five year program only because of the recommendation of a Korean War vet who became a Pharmacist and was a big contributor. Wouldn't happen today.

It's been a fun ride.

Kansas State University
Fall of '98 to spring of '03
BS in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Now I build cheese plants.

My wife's degree is in business mgt. She runs a surgery dept. at a local hospital......

Northwester Oklahoma State Universtity. Graduated 1998.

Buisness Administration.

Accounting Minor.

Went to play baseball, left with a degree.
.

GI bill, mid 1970s.

Community college in Md. Major: staying awake after working all day listening to the same stuff I listened to in high school. Minor: bong.

The big um.... the U. Of Md. Major: pre forestry. Minor: divorce, coeds, disolute living.

Years later, Not A University. NAU, Flagstaff, Az. Major: just finish with a damn lib. arts for the piece of paper.

Didn't graduate. Lacked 15 hrs. credits.
Wife #2 and I started our own business and family. Got too busy to go back.

That business and another we started set up our two kids in their lives.

Mount San Antonio Junior College, 1966. Didn't accomplish a thing. Didn't even manage to party much. Dropped out after two months.

USMC 1967 - 1971, RVN 1970 - 1971

Phoenix Community College, January 1972 - June 1973
Arizona State University College of Architecture, September 1973 - June 1976, Bachelor of Architecture
(5 year degree - 183 semester credits)

KC

Took courses in Geology and computer science,no degree.

Working on my bs in oldfartadutde.4.0 so far

Where did you play HS ball?

Michigan Tech
BS, Mechanical Engineering 2009
MS, Mechanical Engineering 2011


Yep, I'm a youngin'

Now I build cheese plants.


Cheese grows on shrubs? Who knew?

Community College, AS Criminal Justice 1992
Small Private College, BA Paralegal Studies 1994

Delta community college, 1988-1990 for mechanical engineering. Went part time while working full-time in construction, never even got close to graduating.

Don't know if it applies here, but I've also apprenticed as an HVAC installer and technician, but haven't pursued the State test for licensing. During the same time period I apprenticed as a plumber at which I became a journeyman in about 2000 and later a Master and finally, a plumbing contractor.

Ex Brother in Law and a great guy, went to college for music. Then played trombone in some symphony. Smart guy who leaned Russian along the way and the government grabbed him to interpret intercepted messages. He would translate and report directly to the Pentagon.

Did that for quite a few years and finally had enough. Married a girl from Maryland whose family has a truck farm. Which is what he does now.

Started at Arizona State in 1988. Transferred to the University of South Dakota, graduating in December of '92. Law degree from USD in '96.

Graduated HS at 16 and went to work the next Monday. Driven by lots of colleges since but never spent a day in one on business. Interesting in that every job I ever held, required a college degree.

Northern Arizona University BS Biology 2005
University of Arizona PharmD 2011

School Of Hard Knocks

I did.
Youngstown State University-Youngstown, Ohio
1983
No

Private college. Dual majors in Education and Bible with a concentration in History and a Math minor.

Taught HS math for a few years. Liked teaching and the kids for the most part. Other stuff drove me away and I haven't been back. Work in construction now.

Between keeping an academic scholarship and work study (plus never less than 19+ credits a semester) didn't have time for any fun. In retrospect, would've been just as well off going to a party school!

frat house sold my soul

Some college....Barrington College, then Boston Conservatory. No degree...pregnant girlfriend. Still had a career as a professional singer. Turned out ok - except for the marriage - shoulda married the girl BEFORE that! Might yet do that...

La Tech University - 2.5 years. Was invited not to come back because they had some sort of academic standards they had to uphold.

Texas A&I University - BAS History with Ag. Science Minor.

University of Houston/Victoria - MEd Education Mid-Mgt.

The above spanned the years from 1973 - 1989. I received many degrees in "Hard Knock" schools interspersed in those years. It was all worth it.

In my next life I will be an orthodontist.

Alan

High Point (NC) College (now university) 1966-1970
BA History
never used it

2/3 of a BA in Communications at Weber State University in Ogden, UT, left at end of junior year. 16ish years later, went to Pima Medical Institute in Denver, CO and received an Associates of Occupational Sciences in Radiography.

Five years university.

All in all, a well educated bunch of hayseeds we all all seem to be! Bring this question to the " outside" world away from like minded individuals (sportsmen) such as is the norm here and my guess is they (them...outside world) profiled our lot as uneducated, backwoods fools....interesting....keep it rolling....

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1978 University of Arizona, go Arizona Basketball!

UCLA
82-87
BA History (business economics just didn't work out)
An awesome time and place.

University of Idaho BS in Natural Resource Management circa 1996

Five and a half years of unregulated wildness, interrupted only occasionally by class.

Dave

CU Boulder 95-99 BS mechanical engineering.
Was the 2nd oldest in the graduating class. CU being a liberal socialist institute of higher learning provided endless entertainment.

Nope, straight out of HS and into the Army.

BBA's in Accounting and Business Management from Fort Hays State University
MPA from Wichita State University

Loved college, couldn't get enough of it. Beats the hell out of working for a living.

My 'degree' says DD 214!

And I ain't never been broke!

Rankin Collage graduated in 83

Princeton's Ground Water School in 95

Harvard Class 91"
BA History and Anthropology.
UAF Secondary Licensure.
I should finish up a MA in Ed but it doesn't really make a huge difference in pay.

I was going to be an Engineer then one day I walked by the Peabody and there were a bunch of graduate students dressed in fur clothing, drinking beer from a keg and throwing spears at a dead circus elephant. They let me throw spears and drink too. They sure knew how to recruit.

I can retire after next year but I probably will go five more years after that to get full medical insurance and a cola for my retirement.

1989 - OU - BBA in management
1996 - OSU - MS in org behavior
1997 - OU - MBA
2005 - OCU - JD

Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
BS Accounting 1975

University of South Dakota School of Law
JD 1984

(Got one of those DD 214 degrees too.)

I am what's known as an educated redneck.

BS in Art Ed and Elem Ed - Delta State College 1971
MS in Art Ed and School Admin - Delta State University 1977
(Delta State had graduated to University status)

Worked my way thru school, working in grocery stores, drilling water wells, building towboats, and in pharmarceutical manufacturing and spent 6 yrs in ARNG

University if Arizona, BA, Political Science/History '93
Chapman University, MA, Special Education '99
Northern Arizona University, M.Ed, Education Administration '05

I've been attending or working in schools all my life!

2009-2011
University of Montana
BA Communicative Sciences and Disorders

In the process of trying to get into a Graduate Program to get my Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology

YMCA Night School. Third from the bottom of my class. Don't [bleep] with a man of my intellect.

CSU Fresno, BA 1965. UCLA, MA 1975. Still don't know much about things that are really important. Some of the wisest people I've ever met never bothered with much formal education. Some of the dumbest people I've ever known were very well educated. Go figure.

Jr. College
University of Saigon, School of Demolition PHD; Applied Science
University of Southern California; School of Aerospace Safety
Florida Inst. of Technology; Air Commerce Technology
Federal Aviation Administration; School of Telling Pilots Where to Go PHD of Vectors, Speed Control and Ultra Cool Death Defying Poker

I graduated in High School in 1986. Later that year I started riding motocross and supercross professionally.
My two best friends were getting ready for college and I razzed them mercilessly about eating ramen noodles and canned ravioli.
I was going to be the next Bob Hanna or Brock Glover(I eventually raced both and beat them in different races). I also had baseball to fall back on if motorcycles didn't work out but that's a different story.
Both of my friends are very successful now,one's a doctor and one is a home builder.
The dumbest decision I've ever made was not going,and finishing college.
I did put some of the money I made to good use though. I paid off the home I grew up in as well as bought a motor home and enclosed motorcycle trailer.
Regrets... You bet...
Would I change the path I chose... Hell no!!!

East tennnessee state 1993-2004 (way to much fishing
masters in education LMU 18 months

Ever race Damon Bradshaw?

La. Tech
'70-'73
No Degree

Right up there with my diploma from Vermont Polytechnic institute of court reporting and gunsmithing

1970-71 U of Florida

Left in middle of my sophomore year to join the Army as an 11B (light weapons Infantry), three years of which prepared me more for life than anything I learned in college. Went back anyway.

1975-78 Utah State University, BS in Forest Management.

Never worked a day in Forestry. No jobs available and what there were didn't pay squat. Used the last of my GI bill to attend a 6 month vocational school for computer programming, got a job as a programmer and have doing that for 33 years come this September.

Graduated high school - Scobey, MT (1970)
San Francisco College of Mortuary Science - Funeral director/Embalmer
Pacific Lutheran U - BA, majors - Biology, Philosophy, German
U of Wash - Doctor of Dental Surg.
Loma Linda U - MS, Orthodontics

Wayne State University, Bachelors
Webster University, MS
Naval Postgraduate School, MBA

Court reporting and gunsmithing. Love it!

Graduated from Penn State in '71 with a degree in biology and a minor in education.

Didn't really use the degree, but it allowed me to have a very good career in the steel industry.

donsm70

University of West Georgia
81 - 85
YES
BFA-GRAPHIC DESIGN
BFA-ILLUSTRATION

Jim:

I was at Utah State during the same time frame. They had a good forestry school. Did you enjoy it there? May I ask whereabouts in Idaho you are?

Jordan

University of Hard Knocks with a PhD in General Studies. Started out at a business school and dropped it to attend college to be an architect. The lady at the draft board had other ideas for me in 1968. Took a ton of college math classes when I was in the AF because I decided I wanted to be an EnGunEar. Never worked out so now just work for a bunch of them. Truthfully have never looked back. Do not owe anybody a dime. Retiring in June, wife will in July.

Nyenrode business University -- learned how to write somewhat clearly

University of Oregon (B.A.) -- learned you can grow pot in your dorm room window.

Texas A&M (M. Sc. Ag. Econ) learned how to analyze and execute research.

Real world honorary degree: learned wimmen's is nutz.....

MS State, class of '93, Accounting
Ole Miss, class of '97, JD

High School 1975
Community College, AS Criminal Justice 1977

Police Academy 1978

Two degrees from two colleges:
University of Colorado, Boulder - BS Chemical Engineering
Southern Methodist University, MBA

I did enjoy my time there and liked the field of study and really liked Logan. But they were graduating far more foresters than could be decently employed. A friend who also graduated with a BS in Forestry in 1978 couldn't find work that paid a livable wage and went to a vocational school to become an electrical contractor.

Currently living in Boise which isn't a bad city as cities go, but I miss small town Fruitland on the ID-OR border where I lived for about 13 years.

Me as a Mountain Man forestry student somewhere north of Logan, UT, that's US89 down at the bottom of that mountain in the background.

University of Florida '88
B. S. Criminology

Colorado School of Mines
BS - Geological Engineering, 1985

University of Washington
BS Civil Engineering 1986

At 53, still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up - maybe when I retire?

been to several different colleges, for basketball and football games.

but that's it for me.

I had friends attending the Milwaukee School of Engineering and my best friend attended Marquette.

Had some epic Milwaukee weekends with them.

I went to several colleges, MSU, Utah State, U of M, ASU and several more I can't think of right now...

T,

Are you suggesting that engineering students are all hard partying drunks soon as they close their fluid mechanics textbooks??

UW (Wyoming) wildlife management, got a job turning wrenches. Collage was the biggest waste of 5 years of my life. Other than meeting my wife I gained no knowledge, 0 experience, and wasted several thousand dollars. There were so many guys in my field of study it took two years to get a spot in one class. Then all the cultural, brainwashing BS was almost nauseating, why did I need to learn about African American studies to get a degree in deer accounting? I hope my boys want to have real, usefull jobs, like plumbers or welder, none of this university BS.

Now I keep getting all this crap wanting me to donate to their alumni crap, didn't they steal enough money and give me enough empty promises for one life time?

Rant off, I just really hate higher education.

Mississippi State College
BS 1956

College girls couldn't even keep me in school. Left after a time. All I wanted to do was go to work. Started my first business at 23, sold the business and house at 35 and traveled the western US for a year.
Then started over, broke, thanks to an ex-wife! Been building back slowly.

Choices?
Yeah, there's big ones in life. Choose wisely young men. Most of the worst decisions involve women. The best ones can be with or w/o a woman in the picture. Think that one over.

I'm saying the two engineering students I partied with, one I went to highschool with and we're still good friends. The other I went to grade school, high school and later college with (he transferred to UW-O for MIS studies) and we're still friends.

I'd say those two were good party guys who happened to be studying engineering, not necessarily partying engineers if that makes sense.

My friend who went to Marquette happens to be female and I spend a lot of time in her dorm area at Schroeder hall. Was a great place to be.

I generally REALLY like Milwaukee as a town.

My favorite fluid mechanics class was Wild Turkey 101.

Yes, but I was in between him and guys like Ron Lechien and Jeff Ward. He was about 4 or 5 year younger than me.
He was one fast bastage though..
I also dipped my toe in the Formula Two road racing circuit. Yamaha wanted to know if I was capable of keeping two wheels under me.
I signed three contracts

Wednesday was dollar Heineken (pre-craftbrew availability) night at a local joint, so we tried not to schedule Thursday morning classes.

I went to a local college a few times in 2007 to pickup my daughter from classes...

Yup. You were definitely a forestry major. Nice picture. You must have had all the girls you wanted. Logan canyon is nice. How did a guy make a living in Fruitland?

89-91 Henderson State University
91-95 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

PharmD

Two degrees, Business Mgt. & Econ.

Shrapnel, when were you at Utah State?

My favorites were always Jeff Stanton, McGrath and Doug Henry. Jeff Emig was good too.

I remember watching Bradshaw a lot before I got into it. First ride was a 1980 CR 125 Elsinore that was a rocket, went from that to an 87 CR125 and then a 93 KX125

I could like a nice 350cc sized 4 stroke woods blaster but I'm too old these days to contemplate writing the check.

Humboldt State University
BS - Finance
Class of '91

Hey.. Didn't you star in the TV show Grizzly Adams?

Graduated in 1985 from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a BS in mechanical engineering.

NDSU- Bottineau Branch AS Wildlife Management 1968
UAF BS Biological Science 1972/ minor in Ed.
UAF Secondary Teacher's certificate 1973
UAA Primary Certificate circa 1992

None of it took... But I enjoyed the hell out of it.

I'm pretty sure I'm overqualified as a blue collar worker.... or not.

Some very smart people on the Fire whether they graduated from college or not.

RPI- 1963 (Yea I'm that old)
BS- Electrical Engineering

Worked for most of the major electrical power equipment manufacturers including GE & Westinghouse. Started my own small electrical design & sales business 15 years ago.

Been fortunate enough to hunt & fish most of US, Canada, UK, & S.A.

Local Community College - General Studies, got bored and quit
Hospital based paramedic course - 1991.
Did that gig for a long time in an ambulance and a then a helicopter along with Community College Fire, Rescue training, certs, became a state Fire Academy Instructor.

Indiana U of Pa - Certificate in Vocational Education - Taught Public Safety at a Vocational High School.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Nursing School 2010 - Have worked in several emergency departments.

Wish I would have gone to Vo-Tech in high school for machinist training.....

Loved my time in EMS, not a long term career. You can't un-see some of what I've seen.

Eastern Michigan University, BA in. History and Education, minors in Chemistry, Psych and Military Science. A few credits away from a MEd from UVA.

Got accepted to Law School at home in Virginia...but before starting, a little soul searching convinced me I wouldn't make a good lawyer.. I believe in ethics, and have morals....

only thing I regret about not becoming an attorney, is when I got divorced, and dealing with my ex ever since that time...

BS, Electrical Engineering, Cornell
Ph.D., Mathematics, U Penn
MBA, Stanford
Some other degree/program from MIT and another from BU, I'm pretty sure. The degrees have always been jammed in the back of a drawer in a desk in the office, so it's hard to say as far as dates.

Wait, that's my old man. The younger of his dumb kids has a B.A. in English, with a minor in Soc. I am shamed.

Asbury College, Kentucky, transferred 1964

University of Florida
1965 to 1969
BA ADV
BS Marketing
BA minor was TV Broadcast
BS minor was history

Started MBA, did most, dropped out. Kid on the way, needed to go to work.

5 colleges in 3 states and no degree, though I'm sure I could have an AA in there somewhere.

I couldn't even tell you how many hours I have. Lots of random course work.

Rochester Institute of Technology 2002-2006
B.S. in Information Technology
- Had a job a month after graduating after turning down a few offers because the start date interfered with deer season and boy do I love my job 7 years later.

BA in Biology, Jersey City State College, 1980
MS in Marine Biology, Long Island University, 1986

Attended NJIT Graduate School for two years in their Environmental Engineering Program, man do I hate engineering!

29 years working for the loved and often misunderstood US EPA.

Purdue University
B.S. in Agriculture. 1973.

Been working in Ag, ever since.



maddog

did 30yrs at School of Hard Knocks/Boilermaker. At 50 decided to go back to college. Graduated from Mississippi State and have been teaching HS ever since.

Tennessee Wesleyan College
BS in Health/Physical Education

Lincoln Memorial University
MS in Education Administration and Curriculum

Tennessee Tech
Ed.S. Educational Administration

Univ. of WI. River Falls, '69-'75.. One or two classes short of degree in Horticulture... No need to go back and finish..

Brenau University, Bachelor of Business Administration

"You're an M.A., a B.A. and a B.M.F. besides, so tell us, Bob, what have you been doing with all this knowledge?"
"...making candles, man...."
"Ma-king can-dles..."
"yeah, man.... you pour wax on a table."
"Yes?"
"and you set it on fire, man."
"Well isn't that far out, solid and right on?"

You would have made "The perfect" lawyer. For all the right reasons.

Associates Fire Science

Associates Paramedic

Bachelors Nursing (RN)

Did that last stent while working full time. Thinking of maybe going back for nurse prac when I retire in a few years.

Depends on what Obammy sets my pay rate at during his 5th term.

BS Criminology & Minor in Sociology from Ohio State in 2001


Been working in the Banking/IT industry ever since....go figure.

BS Natural resources management U of MN

BA in Fine Arts - '75 Oregon State (Yeah that's right ... painting and dating nude models )

MBA Gonzaga Univ '78.

Spent the rest of my life testing and perfecting Ironbender's invention (The heat-seeking moisture missile).

B.S.from Northeast Missouri State in 1984 in Biology.
I've been working in the conservation field ever since. I am also the first person in my family to ever get a degree.

Whatsamatter U.

University of Maryland - BS - Business Administration - 1964
University of Maryland - MS - Economics 1966
University of Maryland - worked on PhD, never finished due to marriage, kids, job changes, moves and, and lack of gumption! - just got tired of it all.

AA 90 Fulton-Montgomery CC
BS Microbiology 1992 SUNY Plattsburgh
Ph.D Biology 2001 Dartmouth College


I have another degree too... It says DD214 at the bottom

"I miss small town Fruitland "

Jim, at the intersection of I-84 and US-95, there used to be a tank parked in a yard just across US-95 and the gas station; it might have been an M-60(?). Is it still there?

CPCC & UNCC...Business, machine shop, drinking and BS'in

When I drove by there last year it was. The guy that owns it runs a surplus military vehicle lot, with jeeps and a bunch of old deuce and a half's and I think a Humvee or three and other odds and ends. If it's the same fellow I'm thinking of he was in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam.

To Rob's previous question - I was the "computer guy" for May Trucking in Payette, then when they moved all operations to Salem, OR I went to N.A.C.A trucking, then when they went out of business I worked for Catholic Health Initiatives which owned Holy Rosary hospital in Ontario and Mercy Medical in Nampa, among a bunch of others. Then CHI consolidated all of their IT operations in Littleton, CO, so I had to move to Boise to find work.

Me: BS - SUNY Oswego MS - St. Lawrence University

wife: BS-Clarkson U; MBA-Clarkson; PhD - Carlton U. (Ottawa)

Easy to see who's got the real brains in the family (not to mention the good looks.)

No Frets Blake...

you have a college guys dream job... Brewing beer!

you need an AA 'degree'? attend Alcoholics Anonymous for 30 days, there ya go.. you can call yourself an AA Graduate...
sort of like the guys who claim they went to and graduated from Penn State, when in reality they are really alumni of the State Penn...

most of we campfire regulars have a "BS" degree.. from either BSU or FU...anyway...

and you still have what many campfire members would still consider the ideal dream job... brewing beer...

how's fatherhood coming along, by the way?

Don't need no degree from college to be a lawyer.

University Of Maryland
Bachelors Degree

Best four years of my life ( so far )

University of Northern Iowa
Bachelors, Management
1962-1984

Yes, I was a bit slow but managed to get my military duty in, raise a family and hold a full time job all the way.

Who went to college?
Yep
Where and when?
UofH 1973
Graduate?
Nope
Degree?
Micro Bio

1985 Texas Tech Univ
BBA Marketing/Finance

I'm sure you attended UCSB during those years, too..

Damn.. What a good time that was.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1977
Bachelor degree Industrial Engineering/Logistics

GI Bill - thanks Uncle Sam

und williston 95-97, diesel tech diploma.

Beulah Heights Bible College in Atlanta 1980 - 1981 no degree.
Wyoming Technical Institute 1991 - 1992 Associates Degree
PHD from the School of Hard Knocks
Also hold a degree from the USN that says DD214.

i dropped out but i went to Montana Tech in Butte for a degree in Geological Engineering for awhile....prolly woulda stuck it out if it wasnt for all the liberal arts classes i had to take....was paying for college out of my own pocket as my parents didnt have any money.....all the core classes pertaining to my degree i was doing fine in but it got to me that i was actually paying people to lecture me bout chit that would have nothing to do with my degree or had anything to do with life after college....i loved all the science and math stuff though...

Hmmm.

WVU: graduated in 1995 with a BSME
Wisconsin: Graduated in 1997 with a MSME and in 2007 with a Ph.D.

Worked from 1997 to 1999 and from 2003 onward. Finished my dissertation while working. Kind of a convoluted path wasn't it?

Will

Well, haven't read all of the replies, but your survey is gathering a lot of reponses fast. Nice.
Here's mine:
Went to three colleges before earning the BA at Westchester Univerity (PA)
MM at Arizona State University
PhD at University of Arizona

I did mine via night school starting in my mid 20's.

AS is science from a Community College 1999
BS in IT University if Phoenix 2002

Graduated
WVa - BS Foresty and Wildlife Management
Oregon State U - MS & PhD Rangeland Management

Thank God for the GI Bill

AS HVAC/R

Perish the thought of receiving an education..

didnt say i necessarily made the right decision.....but sitting in a class your told you have to take listening to the professor go on bout how your a bad guy cause you were born white and male gets hard to stomach.....especially while sitting in said class you start adding up how many hours your stuck in a hot kitchen washing dishes to pay for to enjoy the privilege of being told your one of the worlds evil people i made my decission, and as such im making alot less than i would if i had that degree in my pocket......also wouldnt have met my wife had i stuck it out.....

dont claim i made the right decission.....dont claim that i might not change it if i could go in a time machine and try again......its just why i quit and when i did quit i had plans of figuring out somewhere else to go to get a degree of some sort, was just planning on busting my arse for awhile so i didnt have to worry bout working full time and going to school at the same time.....thats just not how it turned out...

A paper degree is no gurantee of an education. I know plenty of people without a paper degree that are highly educated, know plenty with a degree that I consider poorly educated.

Graduated over 20 years ago with my BS and while I now can appreciate the value of a complete education (non core classes), I didn't at the time I was in school and honestly I'd say my education in those areas occured after I'd graduated.

I would be highly suprised if any college student formed their moral foundation based on a class in ethics, and doubt any student lacking ethics before taking such a class gained any in the process of taking the class. Psycology, sure knowing who's the crazy one, who's likely to stab you in the back and who's going to take credit for your work is a valuable skill to have in the workplace, but I didn't gain those skills in psych class.

University of Maine at Fort Kent
BS in Environmental Science

Looking back, I really wish I had attended the maritime academy like I wanted to.

Certainly won't debate how "educated" one gets or doesn't get from a college education, particularly some of the general ed requirements, but I did notice some trends.

In those areas directly related to my field of study I thought the courses were certainly useful and even interesting - botany, soil science, dendrology, etc. Sometimes I wished they'd tell us just why they were useful since a lot of times you wondered why you were studying the stuff.

But what I really noted was the difference in the professors who had some professional background vs. those who had been in college since their freshman year. Those who had engaged in business or "the real world" were able to impart some real practical knowledge or as I mentioned above, could relate to us the importance or the application of what we were studying. Those that hadn't, treated everything as a dry academic subject and incidentally were usually, not always but usually, the biggest pricks for grading or just overall treatment of their students.

Like much of life, college is what you make it.

Montana State, BS in 1983 and another in 86 after taking two years in the post-Reagan world of ditch digging. Basically added marketing to my management degree. Was a quarter short in both American History and Economics but the economy was improving.
Still haven't used my degree to actually get a job, but it helps.

University of Tennessee BS Wildlife and Fisheries Science 93
University of Tennessee MS Coldwater Fisheries Science 97

tzone, you attend LSSC with my youngest son, he played BBall for them 97-02
Great school

Graduating in December of 2014
with my BS in Ag studies and Agronomy
Iowa State University

1985 Millikin University
BS in Accounting

California State University, Chico
Graduated in '02
BS in Mechanical Engineering

Cool. What did he go to school for?

BS Mechanical Engineering from The University of Maine
MS Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

BS University of Wisconson, College of Agriculture, degree in Ag Extension, 1967. Worked in Ag sales for 25+ years and then 15 years as a Real Estate Appraiser in my own business. Now retired 7 years!

+1, especially the second paragraph.

Forestry/Survey Engineering......University of Maine

Graduation date: TBD....still got 2.5 years to go.

Shenandoah University, VA, 2010 M.Ed.
Hunter College, City University of New York, 1977 BA
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, 1974 AA

Thirty three years between degrees. I really liked going back.

Fort Hays State University, BA History Minor in Political Science,1991.
Masters in Teaching Friends University, 2005
Middle School Social Studies Teacher 23 years. Time flies when you're havin fun.

AA Mesa Community College 1985
BS Arizona State University 1988

PH.D School of hard knocks 2000-2004

Dr. Penguin?

I knew as much.

University of Central Arkansas
Jan. 2000-May 2005
Took a vacation in Iraq during the spring & fall of 2003.
BSE in Secondary Social Studies
Coaching license.

I'm a DD--double dropout, both from high school and college. Though I probably do have enough credits for an associate (2-year) degree from the U. of Montana in biology.

What Jim in Idaho said about continuing education if correct. All a formal education does is provide the basics. Both my parents had Ph.D's, but continued to learn throughout their lives. I wasn't cut our for formal education--high school bored the snot out of me, and after my sophomore years I decided to go out and see the world for a while.

Started college at 24 and took whatever seemed interesting. Dropped out of college when I had the choice of writing a history term paper or writing my first book for actual money. Money won--but haven't stopped learning.

Being schooled is not the same as being learned. Being learned is the goal.

Sounds like you knew the difference between bullschit and beef tenderloin. And, I know you are a devoted self educator. I'm not saying degrees do not matter, but their absence does not equal being ignorant.

There is going to be a big higher education shakeout in the near future and schools offering expensive degrees in fluffy bullschitt are going to go by the boards. People are starting to know the difference between an education and expensive used toilet paper.

Colleges and Universities are pricing themselves out of business. 40 Grand a year is average....NH gives no sweet instate discount to home slices either...no broad based taxes...no money for education...equals the 3rd highest instate tuition in the land....

I am staring at about 40G's a year to start for my son in the fall...and I thought the 5G's per I got bagged for in the early 80's was an ass raping! Sonofabitch!


***** that 40 for my son is out of state too...[bleep] NH!

Did you have a class from Pete Knudsen? He used to teach Geostatistics there.

Sycamore

Cleaning out a bunch of boxes I have saved over the years ( being divorced from the bitch from Hell.. in one of the more wacko liberal counties in the nation.. to CYA...) and found paperwork battling the Dept of Education over student loans...

I had to pay my student loans off twice... did it first time in the early 1980s in full.. and then in the late 90s. the Dept of Ed harassed me again, and demanded that I show them the receipt from the early 1980s when I paid them off... of which I didn't keep.. as who thought the Dept of Ed would try to harass me again, 15 years later...

We negotiated that figure out second time...

Fist time I paid off my student loans of $3500.

second time we negotiated for $1250...

considering the amounts vs today's tuition... I really don't have much to complain about in ratio...

95-97 Forestry - University of Maine Orono
97-98 Fire Science - SMCC

Chased after a woman (now wife), became an electrician and didn't finish. Wish I had just to say I did and to justify the money spent.

BA and JD.

BSME 1999
Montana State University

I'm sure you heard of this girl in college, that is paying her tuition by working as a porn star because her parents can't afford to pay. Makes her parents proud ?
You want to know why college is so expensive ? Look at the pay of teachers and ADMINISTRAITORS. Kollege presidents make as much as some CEO's ?!
College is unaffordable for working class stiffs. Why go and listen to a bunch of BS from liberal douchbhaggs?
I admire just a couple of Universities, one that I've heard about, it's in Southern Michigan - Heritage University that prides itself on teaching the Constitution to every student; the other is Franciscan University that teaches Religion mainly.
You can keep all those sports mills that glorify and prepare thugs for professional franchises that millions of Americans waste their time in front of the boob tube getting stupider and making them richer.
It might be cheaper if they got "Liberals" out of "liberal education" and replaced it with Conservative education?

"Small Private College", that names a brilliant marketing strategy on their part if ya ask me

For my own part I went to SUNY Geneseo, didn't know anything about college, neither did my family, chose it because my cousin had gone there. Got there and found it was 70% female

Incredibly, I left there to finish my B.S. at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (90% male at the time, quite a let-down ). BS Forest Biology/Entomology '79

Worked in the field for a few months, quickly got tired of looking at trees. Skipped out to New Mexico after a failed romance, did day labor for nearly a year. From there went to the Peace Corps, wanted to go to the Phillipines, so did everybody else, ended up in West Africa. Three years in the West African sticks; teacher and vaccination team member. It rocked, we had a military coup and everything.

Came back, got rehired by the forestry school. Left a year later for Texas A&M, thought to get a degree in Agriculture and take it back overseas. Ag research turned out to be excruciatingly boring, but I hate to quit anything so stuck it out through three seasons of field research, plus another 30 hours of free tuition for courses needed to teach all HS sciences, all while living in a shack on a deer lease and living on a paltry graduate teaching assistant stipend (fortunately, I could afford a motorcycle). Egad! The women were awesome. MS Entomology '89.

Wanted to go and teach in inner-city Hell, came to San Antonio to chase Mexican girls. Married one, and found that this place is so durned friendly that the San Antonio version of inner-city Hell is lukewarm at best Twenty-five years and counting now.

Biggest regret: I did the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Program (??) at Quantico two summers in college, was cleared for aviation. Seemed to me back them tho that killing folks was serious business and that I might not always agree with the CinC, so opted for the Peace Corps for my "combat" experience instead. If I had it to do over I coulda done all the above AND put in four years in the military, enlisted would have been fine, long as it was something difficult.

Birdwatcher

Three Rivers CC on and off for over 20 years

PSU for mechanical engineering. 1.5 years didn't finish(should have)
auto tech school finished with degree

I believe we have enough smart and credible people here to start a new Congress and run this country like it was supposed to be..

LOL - Good thing I didn't major in English

Kansas State University
BS in Agricultural Mechanization
1973

Yep, my older brother lived there at the time. I was broke, he was loaded. Fished the Channel Islands, chased shows at the Arlington Theater (GT and the Destroyers, John Sebastian, James Brown and others), played on State Street , drank at the Elephant Bar and wrapped it up with tacos the morning after at Rose Cafe. A bowl of chili and a beer on the return to SLO via Cold Spring Tavern on 154 was killer. When I retire I will go back and do that routine once more, at least. Short of the biotch of the engineering school crunch, life (and future wife) was grand. Used to shoot in pin matches with Aaron Hogue in Atascadero and still have a pair of his Dad's original grips. I remember watching Aaron hand checker grips back then. I had a job offer to work at Diablo Canyon and thought, man that's dangerous schit. Instead I went to work in a refinery where a "boom" occured three weeks later...

BS Biology (Botany) 1974. Cumberland College, now University of the Cumberlands

MS Biology (Plant Ecology) Eastern KY University, 1978

Spent my career acquiring wildlife habitat for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and writing hook and bullet articles for regional publications.

In retirement I am a tour guide for the Kentucky Governor's Mansion and Buffalo Trace Distillery.

A good life so far.

University of Nebraska
BA Broadcast Journalism
1992

That's as good a place to put a distillery as any, considering it's Kentucky, but I'm guessing the governor has no idea what the hell he's signing into law.

Fatjack34: I graduated in 1969 from USR (the University of Skid Road - the original!) out in Seattle, Washington!
I majored in putting criminals in prison and minored in identifying turd like peoples and [bleep] with them!
College degrees, in my opinion, are GROSSLY over-rated anymore. Especially those obtained in the last 20 years.
I mean who wants a brain-washed liberal/socialist coming to work for them or beside them?
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BS Civil Engineering
2001

Auburn University
'74-'78, Civil Engineering,
dropped out Senior year (Yeah, not real smart, but I didn't have anybody to mentor or advise me otherwise.)

University of Alabama, Huntsville
'79-'80, Electrical Engineering, while working full time and going to night school. Went to work for a Gov't contractor in Huntsville, AL. They picked up my school tab and redirected things and I got Engineering Certifications in Nuclear Environmental Qualification Test Engineering and Seismic Test Engineering in 1981.

Went to work for NASA in 1984 and they sent me back to school and I got additional Engineering Certifications in Flight Electrical Systems (NASA's version of Electrical Engineering), Flight Hardware Engineering (NASA's version of Aerospace Engineering), Life Support Systems, and Command & Data Management Systems. It didn't matter to NASA if you already had a PHD in Engineering - to work in some positions you HAD to take and pass their courses. Then went through the process to be approved as a Mission Control Console Engineer. I had a great career with NASA and the Army Missile Command, and with the exception of a few notable incidents, I would have paid them to get to do what I did.

Went to a bunch of Colleges, even got a couple of degrees.
Masters of music from North Texas University.
B.Med from Angelo State University.
Have hours from;
West Texas State
Midwestern State
Navarro Jr. College and probably a couple more that I was too drunk to remember.

RufusG, the governor is a lawyer so unfortunately he does know what he is signing into law.

If course evaluations were to be believed when I was teaching university math, none of my students were like you guys. No way were they out partying, chasing women/men, and generally slacking off. They were dedicated, studying long and hard, really getting after it. But mean old Dr. Mathman was so tough!

NMU 94, BS comparative physiology/chemistry
MSU CVM 98, DVM

Yep.

Oregon State University, BS in Computer Science, 1987.

It has turned out well. I still don't know what I want to do with my life (despite what I've been doing for 26 years) but I have a good job I couldn't have gotten without the degree and I have choices open to me I wouldn't have without the degree.

A degree isn't a guarantee. Not having one isn't a guarantee, either. Having one just improves your odds a very great deal ... but they're still "odds."

Tom

Tell 'em they need to start runnin' off pure corn White Dog,...no sugar,..no rye,..about 120 proof.

It'll sell better than single batch.

Charge what you have to for it.

The way I look at a degree is that it shows an employer you have the ability to learn how to do the job in whatever field you gained the degree, but the degree in and of itself does not mean you have any job skills in whatever field you go into.

The funny thing is even though I have a BSME I've never really worked as a mechanical engineer and the one class that could be said to be helpful was an EE class, circuits. But I'd taken an electronics class in high school which had already given me the understanding of basic circuits and ohms law.

In my time at my current college, I've had one professor that was obviously left. She was incredibly professional about it, it NEVER came up in class but she and I would talk quite a bit out of class. Good looking and my age so it was natural.

I am not a lefty and it was obvious where I lay in the class and she graded me very fairly and made me a better writer in the process. I had 2 classes with her, she even offered to write me a letter of recommendation for grad school - when that comes.

My other instructors have been rather right leaning, particularly my Human Resources Management instructor and my Macroeconomics professor too.

Most of the students are older, returning adults. Out of all of them I can identify only 2 commies, the rest have been rather conservative.

The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
2009-2013
B.S. wildlife and fisheries science

Montana State University
BS in Construction Engineering Technology, 1997

Go Bobcats!

FTG!!!!!!!!! (the Bobcat and Griz fans will get this one! )

Montana State University
BS in Biology, Fish and Wildlife Management Option

Texas A&M-Kingsville
Range and Wildlife Science, 2.5 years, did not finish masters

Georgia State University

1967 BBA Accounting
1977 MBA Finance

it was worth it to me, I was able to semi retire at 50 & completely retire at 57.

Read through all these posts. There are a lot of pharmacists on here...

Anyway...

Davidson College; BA in History. I use it every day and I'm not a history teacher.

Campbell Univ.; MBA.

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
BS in Civil Engineering
Graduated in 2010

University of Wisconsin Madison 84-88
BS Mechanical Engineering

University of Wisconsin Madison 88-91
MS Engineering Mechanics

Tool and Die Apprenticeship 88-92

Rockford College 93-95
Certification Business Law

Engineers, Foresters, Wildlife Biologists and Pharmacists....seems to be the norm....what is the correlation with being a sportsmen and outdoors enthusiast and engineering?

BS, Chemical Engineering, 1979.
Texas A&M, home of the original 12th Man

South Dakota State. Graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering in 94

A few people have noted that college wasn't/isn't worth is. I guess it depends on the school, but typically I would disagree with the sentiment.

My college roommates/neighbors remain to this day my closest friends. We were all in each other's weddings and we get together twice a year. Once in early summer at the beach and once in the fall for a hunting trip. No exceptions; all 10 of us.

Could the education be a bit more applicable? Yes, of course. But the people you meet and "out of class" living/decisions makes for a a great 4 years. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I can't speak to the liberal nature of things; Davidson was much more conservative than other colleges/universities.

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
1991-1995
BS, History w/ Secondary Ed. Cert.

UNC-Pembroke
2006-2008
MSA

SUNY Geneseo- political science
University of Phoenix- MBA

If I could do it again, I would have grown up first, then become a lawyer specializing in water law. Would do a PhD. if I could figure out a way to pay for it w/o starving. Between me, my wife, and kids- I will have student loans until I am 64! Still worth it.

Don't forget us Historians .

I went to Harvard,







One night.
The OSU, without enrolling. I majored in High St. And pantie raids.

Finally phd from hard knocks... last year.

im horrible with names(especially those i havent thought of in more than a decade) and had to go look at his pic, apparently he is still at Tech but no i didnt have a class with him while i was there.....

Pharmacy has been very good to me. Lived in Dillingham and Kodiak Alaska and did a lot of hunting. Now living in Arkansas, but only work every other week. I can hunt a lot of stuff when I have 26+ weeks off a year.

I just looked him up too. Wow, he's the Dean! He was just finishing his PhD (or maybe a post-doc) when I had a class from him (in Tucson).

He was a geostatistics wizard, back in the day.

Sycamore

I had a few false starts, though I ultimately earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. I was a month shy of my fortieth birthday when I walked the stage at The Lloyd Noble and the -- apparently -- oldest undergrad in the CoE that year. It sucked getting there, but I'm glad I did it now.

Oregon State BS Civil Eng 2004

I started back at college when I was 21. Three years in construction helped my straighten up and figure it out.

Glad I did it, glad I didnt go on to get an MS either even though they told me it was really necessary for career wise. Didnt turn out to be true.

I enrolled in Pick And Shovel University 55 years back..

Boise State, BS - Biology, 97

Colorado School of Mines (2 yrs) thought about petroleum and mining eningeering.

BS Civil Engineering - U of W 1985
Professional Engineer license in AK 1990



Shooting and reloading are natural attractions for engineers. Chemistry, thermo, physics, metallurgy, etc. - it doesn't get much better.

Another thing I have noticed is a high correlation of Engineer-Nurse couples, myself included. Anyone else here on the fire?

Same here.

B.S. Natural science; chemistry, social studies minor.
B.S.N. Nursing
B.S anesthesiology
M.S. Anesthesiology
Special Credentialing: three years post graduate study American Academy of
Pain Management (FAAPM)

BA Economics, from a top 30 program.
I'll be back to being a Masters this fall.

In my case........I was very much into hunting and shooting as a small kid......looooong before I even thought about being a Hogshead.

Working as a civil engineer has allowed me all kinds of job opportunities and decent money and to be able to live in rural areas in the Rocky Mtn West such as Casper and Grand Junction where terrific, uncrowded hunting and limitless public land access is within a short drive.

AAS in 2005 from Jamestown Community College
BS in 2008 from The College at Brockport (SUNY)
MA in 2010 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

I now work at a college. I have been on a college campus since April 2003.

BS Architectural Studies

University of Nebraska

1970 to 1974

Worked in a production plant with the engineering group out of college, worked for and with engineers, contractors and architects until 2005. I now have own design company and am the only employee. I stay busier than I really want to be but that has allowed us to get us out of debt except for house mortgage, and we've paid off 20% of that in the last year.

Nope, Engineer/Engineer here. Although at least we are different disciplines.

Makes for some fantastic dinner conversation

Went to SUNY Oswego at age 17 and didn't have a clue what I was doing at the time. Attended 1968-72 got BS in Industrial Arts.

Moved to Tucson Az in fall of 72 and began teaching in 73. Took well over 100 hrs in technical and education classes to move up pay scale. Hated college, community college's auto program was more fun.

Best high school job a teacher could have teaching auto. Kids were great. Where else can you get paid to work on your own vehicle?

Retired in 2003. Still substitute for other shop teachers from time to time.

BA and MS in Science Education (secondary level)
Have taught hs biology, env. science, and A&P for 29 years.
Coach xc and track.

Yep! Lots in my family worked way too hard for way too little, so decided I'd be the first college grad in the family (parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc).

University of Arkansas, BS Chemical Engineering '95

Wife is a dance teacher.

B.S. environmental science

The University of Alabama
B.S Marketing, but I worked in ETV studio and my career went that way.
Class of... well, let's just say i saw Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin,etc.

That's three ChemE's on the fire by my count.

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Civil Engineering degree and Army ROTC commission 1994
(My lovely wife is a ChemE from the same fine institution. She's way smarter than me.)

As do many on here, I have the luxury of having a degreed job that still gets me outside and my boots muddy from time to time. Although each year I head toward more and more desk time as I manage more and engineer less.

Personally, I think we're in the middle of a real shift in the "standard" way to get post-high school education. Not sure how many other Mike Rowe readers/followers are out there, but he consistently makes great points about the American worker and blue collar jobs being dismissed.

With the state of the recent economy, there is a glut of people with degrees they haven't used for years. But a person just blindly adding themselves to that pool isn't a recipe for success for most young folks these days. Ridiculous college costs, education debt, and schools pricing themselves into irrelevance are worth their own conversation.

There are some real opportunities in trades or jobs that seem like "trade" work that 95% of the country is pretty quick to just write off. I'm always curious what advice other parents are giving their teens.

Arizona State University- dropped out and when to flight school. 1974-75. Didn't like College much. Ended up a Bush pilot. I should be returning back to Alaska in the Spring I hope.

Ah ha - A pilot at the Bush Co. Gotta check out all those landing strips!!! Great job!

AB econ, San Jose State. JD at a night school and passed the bar first try. Would have liked to have been a doctor, but I was too weak in math. Things work out though, and now I donate to a medical school to support research.

Haven't read the entire thread, but I think Superdave hit the nail on the head. Was just talking to my youngest son last night. Both he and his wife did 6 years as officers in the AF. His wife is now in med school at the Mayo Clinic. Both really smart kids. She's looking at getting into dermatology - really good pay and manageable work hours. Son Chris never even went through pilot testing while at the AF Academy - thought that life was counterintuitive to starting a family.

Point is, there needs to be a balance between work and life and your education and job choice/path influences that heavily.

I did both my degrees (BA - Wayland Baptist U at and a Masters - Univ of OK) while on active duty in the Air Force. Got a Master's Certificate and Project Management Professional certification.

I think the happiest guys in life are those who work in a highly sought after technical field, by the hour, or salary + overtime.

Started WCSU 1979, finished with a BA Webster U. St.Louis 1986... yeah, with a little time off in between.

Graduated from Colorado State University in 1968, with a BS degree in Geology.
I have spent the past 45 years in the oil and gas industry as an exploration geologist- a more rewarding and enjoyable career would be hard to imagine, IMO.

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, KY.
1990-1994
BS degree in Police Administration

'Twas a pretty good time. I made a couple of real friends while I was there, and several pals.

Turned out, the Marines couldn't use me on account of a slow thyroid gland. College was the next best option for me.

I tried it a few times.

,..actually put together a pretty nice cumulative GPA after I decided to be serious about it.

But I decided to start kickin' around machine shops along the way to make pocket money, and got bit by the Bridgeport bug.

That,...and the fact that the people I met working in the machine shops seemed to have a lot more in common with me than the people I met in college.

No regrets.

I didn't get rich,..but I learned how to operate a lot of fun toys.

Given my disposition and interests, I don't think a college degree could have made me any happier.