My degree... not so helpful - the experience I got in my year out - a lot more so. To be fair - my university learning contributed to my overall skill set and also helped on my placement year. I did a computer science related degree with a business aspect. Things I've learnt I know I apply.. not necessarily information - but concepts.
I graduated in Philosophy and Religious Studies. So yeah, if I ever get a job, I'll let you know. I'd bet good money my job won't use or relate to my degree in any way, though. Humanities are profoundly useless unless you go on to teach what you studied.
I did a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and now I design lightning conductors. Truth be told though, I hardly use any of the stuff I studied although I am hoping to change that by getting more into the surge protection side of lightning protection.
I got a BS in Computer Science, and took graduate courses in computer graphics. I'm now a graphics programmer in the games industry. As far as the game industry goes, degrees themselves don't matter much. But the skills you learn at university will are beneficial. The game industry looks for experience more so than qualifications. What got me my job was developing demos on my own time and creating a graphics programming blog to teach others. Getting your name out there is very beneficial. Do you want to be a level designer or an environmental artist? It sounds like, with your degree in architecture, environmental artist would better suit you ( modeling buildings and what not ). Level designers some times do modeling, but for the most part design the general layout of a level and work with gameplay to iterate on the flow of a level and combat spaces. Either way the best way to gain experience is to work on a mod or an indie project.
I got a degree in "graphical industry" and specialised in "commercial management". I've had two employers and 6 jobs so far, all of them required my degree or comparable experience. I've been lucky enough to get promoted every 1-2 year and got new opportunities/challenges (and a raise) each time. At the moment I'm project manager at a major printing company and so far I love it. Every few weeks/months I get a new project and get to learn something new and get work with new people. I did had a pretty good idea about what kind of jobs I could be doing with sed degree though, at least for the first 5 years. After that, experience becomes more important at finding jobs. Good luck.
I did History, with a disertation on Naval intelligence in WW1; Originally the plan was to join the Intelligence services, but woman got in the way. It taught me how to write analytical and (sometimes) entertaining words. It got me my job @ bit-tech. Worth it I'd say.
Degree in Telecommunications and Computer Network Engineering. I'm now employed as a Principal Network Infrastructure Officer in Local Government. So I'm using my degree. The actual certificate itself got left in a rented flat when I moved out unfortunately.
You don't, so many people have degrees and qualifications in completely different areas to what they do on a day to day basis.
The point is the writing skills attained through his history degree are now in use at bit-tech and also it is unlikely he'd of got an interview without either a degree or some kind of past experience in journalism.
I graduated - Bsc in creative music and sound technology, but now I work as a Junior IT Consultant. My degree was quite techie, though it didnt teach me any of the fundamentals of any of the stuff I do on a daily basis now; but I chose to take that degree because i loved the subject. I decided before I went to uni that music was a hobby and computers where going to be my profession, and i thought the best way to excel at uni would be to do something that I really really loved!
Is say, unless your going into academia and are using it as a launchpad or you're deadset on a job in a relayed field, the nest thing about an undergrad degree is it shows application. Or at least it did: when I first attempted one in the late 90's, there were no lecture note handouts, you were expected to learn the material and speak to the tutors about any issues you had with it. Tried again as a mature student a couple of years ago, and it was awful: PowerPoint note handouts, students expecting to be lead buy the hand, being taught basic maths (for a chemistry degree! They should know it already!) I got so bored I dropped out again, wasn't worth the debt, in my mind.
Qualified as a graphic designer and later as a computer artist (specialised in environmental modelling) and currently work as a fleet manager for a large retail company. Sadly I got hit badly with RSI whilst working in my industry, and now its so bad I cannot work using computers all day long so had to jump ship and got this instead. Still causes issues, but no where near as bad.
Degree in economics then did a few odd jobs for a while (night shift at DHL, rollout engineer at Siemens Business Services etc). Then got a job @ bit-tech on the commercial team, 4 1/2 years and one buyout later ended up working for another small internet business (Channel Flip). Everything I have learned to get me my current position (Ad Operations Manager) has come from experience of actually working in the job. I learned more at my time working for bit-tech than years spent at uni. Although to be fair the industry I'm in has virtually no formal qualifications, etc and I was incredibly lucky to "fall in" a career. There isn't a real barrier to entry and from what I can gather a lot of it comes down to who you know and being in the right place at the right time.
Degree in Psychology; Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology with a side order of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Guess what my job is?
