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Originally Posted by snowy
BA in English...
I'm currently treading water working for an inpatient drug/alcohol rehab center doing office work and occasional childcare.
I hope to start work on my Master's in Teaching this summer/fall.
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Funny to look back and see where I was. I should have said I was working on a BA in English, because it took me a while longer to finish it than I thought I would (damn you, terrible advisor).
After that job, I worked as a nanny. I fell in love with working with young children and decided to pursue a degree in Human Development and Family Science (Early Childhood Development and Education) after I finished the English degree. I'm now about two terms shy of completing a B.S. in HDFS/ECDE after taking a year off to work in early childhood. ECDE barely pays the bills, so now I'm finally getting back to looking at that Master's in Teaching.
However, in terms of work, I use what I learned in my HDFS coursework every day, and as for the English degree, I use that too--my coworkers are constantly turning to me to make sense of stuff for them. For example, when we got new benefits at my place of work, I had to spend a significant amount of time parsing apart the language of the various contracts/benefit statements for everyone. I'm also the resident dictionary.
I'm pretty sure we have another thread floating around here like this one (and more recent too), but I thought it was interesting to see where we'd been.