Best Degrees with Transferable Skills?

[justoffal]

Thanks.

I know one person with a bachelors in Mathematics, she drives a school bus for a living

Ahhh....too bad.....she could easily branch out into Chemistry, biology, physics...A BA in math is a valuable skill.

 

[justoffal]

I don't wanna hear dat.
My Oldest is working on his postDoc in theoretical mathematics. Fortunately during his doctorate he was paid by The Man more than my salary. His wife is the smart one and works for an engineering and design company.

Theoretical Math.... Big bucks as an actuary....

 

[Zincwarrior]

Theoretical Math.... Big bucks as an actuary....

Nah he's professor boy, but could have a nice side business. He likes money.

 

[Woodznutz]

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[BULLDOG]

Worked for you for a month or so.

Yes, I remember you working for me until I fired your goofy ass. You sucked, but not in a good way.

 

[Leo123]

I was pondering again for a potential student what would be some of the best college majors they could choose from. Given that most people change jobs and careers often out of either choice or forced by economic circumstances it seems majoring in something in college that gives you transferable skills that can be applied to many different jobs and career paths is ideal.

Majors I was thinking of

MBA
Mathematics
Accounting/ Finance
Engineering
Health Care
Biology
Chemistry
Social Services
Technology

What are your ideas?

Maybe technology but, learn a trade too.

 

[westwall]

Yes, I remember you working for me until I fired your goofy ass. You sucked, but not in a good way.

Nah, you have me confused with someone else. You're too stupid to run a business.

You have ditch digger, whore, written all over you.

 

[BULLDOG]

Nah, you have me confused with someone else. You're too stupid to run a business.

You have ditch digger, whore, written all over you.

I forgot. You seem to think you know more about me than I do. All those conspiracy theories have disrupted the normal function of your brain.

 

[westwall]

I forgot. You seem to think you know more about me than I do. All those conspiracy theories have disrupted the normal function of your brain.

Because I do. You're not very self aware.

 

[BULLDOG]

Because I do. You're not very self aware.

Yep. You are still an idiot. My first interaction with you, you were bragging about how smart you were. I immediately saw you were a blowhard fool, and you haven't improved a bit. You're still a blowhard fool.

 

[westwall]

Yep. You are still an idiot. My first interaction with you, you were bragging about how smart you were. I immediately saw you were a blowhard fool, and you haven't improved a bit. You're still a blowhard fool.

Thanks for noticing!

 

[ScorpioRising007]

When I was going back for my Masters I looked into doing an MBA or an MS. Got accepted to both at different universities and choose the MS. The more research I did on MBAs the more I found they were becoming a dime a dozen and were losing their luster.

I use to think that too and I have heard people say they are a dime a dozen, but I have had relatives and friends who got one and the MBA really helped them. Not all MBA's are created equal and I think it depends what you do with it.

One of my relatives got an MBA from a top business school and did an internship overseas in Germany learning international business. The MBA was very expensive but he claimed worth every penny to him. He touted how great the MBA was and encouraged me to get one. He said it taught him how to open his own business and make a lot of money on his own. He now has two houses and makes like 400k+ a year working out of his home running his own business. He swears by the MBA and said it was the best investment he ever made. Now he always was a very talented individual that was considered a gifted student and was labeled a brain. I never pursued the MBA because there is no way I could get the GMAT score did, he scored like in the IVY league range on his GMAT.

I know other people who got MBA's from much less prestigous schools and it seemed to have helped them a lot. I knew one older gentlemen who origionally got his bachelors in Education and tried to be a school teacher, but couldn't manage a classroom and got fired as a teacher. He went back to school and got an MBA from a non ranked school that wasn't that hard to get into. He went on to making a 6 figure salary the rest of his life working in the business sector.

I know another relative who got an MBA from the University of Phoenix for a very cheap price compared to other schools. The MBA enabled her to move into HR. She had her undegrad in like psychology. She now works as an HR manager making 100k+ a year.

On the other hand I also know a guy who got an MBA from a top business school and he works as a truck driver. He used the MBA to work in finance for many years...but after he found out he could work as a truck driver making the same salary or more than he did working in finance... he choose truck driving instead. He said truck driving was much less stress and a much easier job for the same pay. He makes over 6 figures doing over the road truck driving and loves it.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I use to think that too and I have heard people say they are a dime a dozen, but I have had relatives and friends who got one and the MBA really helped them. Not all MBA's are created equal and I think it depends what you do with it.

One of my relatives got an MBA from a top business school and did an internship overseas in Germany learning international business. The MBA was very expensive but he claimed worth every penny to him. He touted how great the MBA was and encouraged me to get one. He said it taught him how to open his own business and make a lot of money on his own. He now has two houses and makes like 400k+ a year working out of his home running his own business. He swears by the MBA and said it was the best investment he ever made. Now he always was a very talented individual that was considered a gifted student and was labeled a brain. I never pursued the MBA because there is no way I could get the GMAT score did, he scored like in the IVY league range on his GMAT.

I know other people who got MBA's from much less prestigous schools and it seemed to have helped them a lot. I knew one older gentlemen who origionally got his bachelors in Education and tried to be a school teacher, but couldn't manage a classroom and got fired as a teacher. He went back to school and got an MBA from a non ranked school that wasn't that hard to get into. He went on to making a 6 figure salary the rest of his life working in the business sector.

I know another relative who got an MBA from the University of Phoenix for a very cheap price compared to other schools. The MBA enabled her to move into HR. She had her undegrad in like psychology. She now works as an HR manager making 100k+ a year.

On the other hand I also know a guy who got an MBA from a top business school and he works as a truck driver. He used the MBA to work in finance for many years...but after he found out he could work as a truck driver making the same salary or more than he did working in finance... he choose truck driving instead. He said truck driving was much less stress and a much easier job for the same pay. He makes over 6 figures doing over the road truck driving and loves it.

You may well be correct, all I have to go on is the research I did while choosing which path to take. I was looking for something different that make me stand out from the crowd.

I found a program that was just started and I was in the first class to go through it. Initially the degree was a Masters in Organizational Informatics. Being brand new was both a boon and a curse. It was great at career fairs where you could explain what it was to a recruiter. It sucked on a resume as nobody knew what it was. Before we had finished they changed the name of the program to Applied Analytics.

Those of us that started with the old name were given the choice of which we wanted in our diploma. I choose the new name to help with job hunting, but now that I have had the job for a decade wish I had stuck with the old name as it was more unique.

But my Masters coupled with a PMP are enough to bring in well more than 100k so I have no complaints, especially not with the life work balance that it gives me.

 

[sparky]

Your chances of becoming "wealthy" no matter how you define it are best if you start a successful small business. And you don't need any degree at all to do that.

Yes one can DG

~S~

 

[sparky]

What are your ideas?

Doing one thing well does have it's constraints

~S~

 

[ScorpioRising007]

You may well be correct, all I have to go on is the research I did while choosing which path to take. I was looking for something different that make me stand out from the crowd.

I found a program that was just started and I was in the first class to go through it. Initially the degree was a Masters in Organizational Informatics. Being brand new was both a boon and a curse. It was great at career fairs where you could explain what it was to a recruiter. It sucked on a resume as nobody knew what it was. Before we had finished they changed the name of the program to Applied Analytics.

Those of us that started with the old name were given the choice of which we wanted in our diploma. I choose the new name to help with job hunting, but now that I have had the job for a decade wish I had stuck with the old name as it was more unique.

But my Masters coupled with a PMP are enough to bring in well more than 100k so I have no complaints, especially not with the life work balance that it gives me.

I guess it also depends how much money you want that MBA to get you. For a cheap MBA that is like only 10k and from an online school... if that can open doors to possible jobs that even pay just 50k a year...to me that is not a bad investment.

Years ago I debated about getting an MBA or getting or getting a Masters in Education with teaching license. I choose the Masters in ED with teaching license over the MBA route, but sometimes I think I made the wrong decision. For one all the degree is good for is teaching jobs in Education and in the field of Education you specialized in and it only qualifies you for the state you live in. That is a very limited scope. You can use the MBA for many different fields and it is just as good in one state as it is in another. I went on so many interviews and couldn't get hired as a teacher and so I was applying to other jobs instead and I was finding the Education degree was seen as pretty much worthless to most employers. I had one hiring manager mock me in the interview saying "You got a Master's in Education and you want to work for this company?". Obviously I didn't get that job, the interview was nothing but mocking my degree in Education the whole time. I learned to take off of my resume my Master's in Education and just leave on my Bachelor's in Business for some jobs I was applying to. For my current job in healthcare it was my Bachelor's in Business that got me this job. I make at my current job in healthcare a little more than what teachers get paid in my state. I am renewing my teaching license though one last time and will take a stab at trying to land that teaching job, I might try to convert it to a Florida license since there is more a demand for teachers down there than in my home state.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I guess it also depends how much money you want that MBA to get you. For a cheap MBA that is like only 10k and from an online school... if that can open doors to possible jobs that even pay just 50k a year...to me that is not a bad investment.

Years ago I debated about getting an MBA or getting or getting a Masters in Education with teaching license. I choose the Masters in ED with teaching license over the MBA route, but sometimes I think I made the wrong decision. For one all the degree is good for is teaching jobs in Education and in the field of Education you specialized in and it only qualifies you for the state you live in. That is a very limited scope. You can use the MBA for many different fields and it is just as good in one state as it is in another. I went on so many interviews and couldn't get hired as a teacher and so I was applying to other jobs instead and I was finding the Education degree was seen as pretty much worthless to most employers. I had one hiring manager mock me in the interview saying "You got a Master's in Education and you want to work for this company?". Obviously I didn't get that job, the interview was nothing but mocking my degree in Education the whole time. I learned to take off of my resume my Master's in Education and just leave on my Bachelor's in Business for some jobs I was applying to. For my current job in healthcare it was my Bachelor's in Business that got me this job. I make at my current job in healthcare a little more than what teachers get paid in my state. I am renewing my teaching license though one last time and will take a stab at trying to land that teaching job, I might try to convert it to a Florida license since there is more a demand for teachers down there than in my home state.

I can see how a degree in Education would be limiting. Most masters are far more focused than an MBA, which is why I went the Masters route.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I can see how a degree in Education would be limiting. Most masters are far more focused than an MBA, which is why I went the Masters route.

AN MBA is
1. technically its to provide business expertise on top of your minor, so you take advantage of that and manage a department, entity/company.

2. It shows you are serious.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

Maybe technology but, learn a trade too.

Yeah I just see how people these days have to change job to job and career to career just to get ahead. You need more degrees and skills that transfer from one completely different job and career to the next.

Along with my Bachelors and Master's I learned also kinda of a trade-> I got a CDL and worked as truck driver for a while.

 

[Unkotare]

Let's see: I've been a letter carrier, manager, business owner, tech support for a large medical research company, writer, curriculum developer, and just about every kind of teacher you can think of. I'm probably forgetting a few.