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just for fun - your original degree?

Posted: Jun 13, 2014

did anyone receive a totally unrelated degree/certificate, before you ended up as an MT? My degree was a bachelor's in music -- not only that, but biological science/chemistry were my worst subjects all the way thru high school -- go figure! LOL

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Bachelor's in education - ZvilleMT

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with minors in English lit and history and I got about halfway through to my master's in education. The branch college I went to was on the same campus with a tech school and if you were a full-time student at the college, you got a free course each semester at the tech school, so over the four years I was in college, I also got my paralegal degree from the tech school. It wasn't until I was married, working full-time, and pregnant that I decided to take classes for MT, so I had nothing in my background to prepare me for medical terminology :)

AA in Art. Not worth the paper it's written on. - 2 L8 2 go back 2 school,

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since I can collect SS in 1.5 years. For now I'm just treading water and trying to keep my head above it.

BA ~ History - Cluny (nm)

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High School LOL ;-) - some college

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I went right from HS into trade school (about 30 years ago) and until recently my pay exceeded most of my friends/family who had degrees. Just the way things went. Of course it is different now. But back then trade school, luck, persistence, and hard work made it all work financially.

Currently I don't have anyone to support per se, so I'm okay with a little downgrade in pay. I did take a couple courses in college when I was in my 20s but was working at the time so it just was too overwhelming with a kid too, so I just let it go...

anyhow, that's my story!

BS/math; MS/Industrial engineering; former technical writer - L&L

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I forgot what it was I liked about doing this job, other than the fact that I really hate actually being around people.

BA in English - NDMT

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Should have gotten a teaching credential but wanted to finish school so bad--told myself I'd go back to take the extra courses--but didn't. I thought my degree would be a great help when I started transcription--I should have majored in Punjabi instead!

BA in English, writing, - journalism...

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and every day doing this any more has just become agony.

BA in psychology, minor in health education...sm - ks

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...was "supposed" to go back and get teaching credential or possibly into nursing, but needed a break from school. In in the interim, I ended up working with head-injured people for a few years, and then realized I really wasn't as much a people person as a word person (had always been a voracious reader and dabbled in journalism with some technical writing training). I went back for MT training, instead.

Over 20 years later, I have been mostly a QA in this field, but still working on dreams of getting out (technical writing being just one goal).

B.S. in H.I.M., now M.A in Professional Writing. No longer an MT!!! - Feather Tuscadero

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Bachelor of Business in Hospitality & Tourism Mgmt - MT

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Then I married a teacher so went into motor insurance claims for a few years until we had kids.

School of Hard Knocks - Jill of Some Trades, Mistress of None

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24 months til RETIREMENT

BS Zoology - Rita,CHDS

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Most people think this is WAY unrelated to the MT field, but that's how I learned anatomy, chemistry, cell biology, physiology, etc... all of it relatable to human biology. I couldn't convince any interviewers of this, though (in the human medical field). Three years of biochemistry on top of everthing else. Nearly killed me, but in retrospect I treasure it!

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