Education effected your life

[Grandma Helen]

How has the education you received changed your life?

[Steven Robkoff]

For me it didn't change my life at all. By the time I'd finished and gotten my college degree I was already working for the U.S.P,Service. I could have moved up into a supervisory position but I already had a great route and I didn't want to lose it. I probably would have been transferred to another station too, and I was very happy where I was. Anyway, I'd done more than enough changing stations as it was. 

[PartTimeBrewer]

Since I never pursued a career in my college major, it never helped me find employment. In fact, I would say my degree hindered my job search in my geographic region because I was considered overqualified and likely to move on. It also led employers to place me in supervisory roles that were not a good fit for my personality style. On the the other hand, I am still grateful for the wide exposure to liberal arts subjects I never would have had otherwise.

[OneEyedDiva]

I was an average student in school and high school didn't really prepare me for a career. I did not go to college straight out.  My mother convinced me to take a clerical course. That changed my life by opening the doors to office rather than retail work. I met my son's father at the tech school I attended for the classes. He became my first husband. After a few years as a clerk/typist (I worked for G.E., Western Union and a city agency, I was hired at a place that wound up becoming my work home.

Although I moved up from secretary to public health rep for the city, then the state (after two years of college courses majoring in Health Sciences), I feel I probably wouldn't have had those opportunities if I hadn't taken that clerical course. 

[MTwoman]

I'm a registered nurse, so that education provided opportunities beyond just bedside nursing, and a good living.

[officerripley]

I received some "education" by working for years as an office worker at a university. It taught me--and the other non-degreed workers there--that no matter how we tried to educate ourselves that it would never be as good as a university degree in the eyes of the professors that worked there. As it was put to me, "No matter how much you learn on your own--by attending a community college, reading library books on a subject, etc.--about a subject, it's not good enough. That kind of knowledge just means you've learned what to think; a college degree will teach you how to think."