Student runs "Illegal Library" from School Locker

[LMNO]

Hold on... People go to college/university for a better career?  I thought you went to learn cool stuff, and then got a job in something entirely unrelated to what you majored in.

[Cain]

There's a reason we decided, as a society, that leaving the education of children to religion was not a good idea.

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" - St. Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits.

Of course, our technocratic whimsies insist there is nothing that can ever be learnt from history and that memory is the enemy, so no doubt we have, as a society, forgotten this is exactly why a bunch of ne'er-do-wells, radical philosophers and satirists first started advocating the overthrow of religious institutions and regimes.

[Suu]

True story, I actually worked in my degree field! Then I realized I hated it, and got laid off anyway.

There's actually a market for textile and costume studies. I swear the MFA is always looking for someone.

[Luna]

I was a psych major.  I work in payroll.

I DID work in the field for two positions before I realized it was the WRONG field for me.  Burnout city.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

My degrees are in business and math.  I work in customer service.  I used to use my degree daily till I moved to St. Louis and took the only job I could find.  I love business, it fascinates me.  Math was only because I had all the classes I need and said why not. 

Any time I questioned a schedule for the next sememster I filled in blank time with math classes.  What started as filler classes I knew I could pass turned into a degree.

Be that as it may, I'm too old to start pursuing my dream job now.  I need to feed, clothe and shelter too many people.

[Suu]

As much as I detest math, I understand it's necessity and have taken my fair share of classes as well. However, actually devoting myself into majoring in it..

I have to take a lot of intermediate/advanced chemistry in the next couple of semesters. I'm okay with this and all the formulae I get to play with, but raw math is rough for me.

[Cain]

I could run a world class library from my hard drive.

But that's called "illegal file-sharing" I believe.

[Jenne]

I'm one of the few people I know (besides all the engineers, doctors and lawyers) who is in the field I chose as my degree.  Though I'm no longer teaching, it's an offshoot, and it's comfortable.  I'm really lucky to do something lucrative that uses both my degrees every day, and I still enjoy the hell out of it.

[Freeky]

I could run a world class library from my hard drive.

But that's called "illegal file-sharing" I believe.

[Phox]

Hold on... People go to college/university for a better career?  I thought you went to learn cool stuff, and then got a job in something entirely unrelated to what you majored in.

Nah, my plan is to get paid to sit around and write papers about books written in dead languages. [/dream]

Phox,
Knows her skills.

[Cain]

My collection has gotten to the point I'm not actually ordering any dead-tree format book under £50 and under 20 years old.  I want the obscure and hard to find stuff.

I'm currently deciding whether to spend my next paycheck on Toynbee's A Study of History (the unabridged version, all volumes if possible) or tracking down and getting translated some of the works of Rudolf Kjellen.

[PopeTom]

I found out in 2005 that technically I didn't graduate high school.

I have a job that pays all my bills, doesn't require a lot of effort, and gives me a three day weekend.

[Suu]

I think I'm just going to go to school for the rest of my life and live off of university and government grants like I do now.

[Doktor Howl]

I think I'm just going to go to school for the rest of my life and live off of university and government grants like I do now.

Sure.  Nobody else needs that funding.

[Suu]

I think I'm just going to go to school for the rest of my life and live off of university and government grants like I do now.

Sure.  Nobody else needs that funding.

Like funds are going where they need to be anyway.

Actually, what I SHOULD do is just win Powerball, then I can buy 3 more trailers and 16 new pickup trucks. That is, after all, the true American Dream™.