oh, I don't know about training / degrees - of the folk I was at school with, that I'm aware of, many of them - good majority I'd say - studied something and now work in that field - be it broadcast, oil&gas engineering, medicine, architecture.
I'm in IT and that's what I studied. Of my former colleagues though, they came from a variety of fields, clear highlight would be my boss of many years with a near PhD in astrophysics..
clear highlight would be my boss of many years with a near PhD in astrophysics
You work for Brian May?
Chose the wrong trade tbh, the credit crunch made everyone realise that economics was as much a science as reading entrails and it makes no difference whether you employ someone with a masters, or someone with a pair of dice
Mmmmm....don't know about that. Trade deficits and inflation still exist, and while arriving at a solution is not an exact science, it's hardly random either.
Also, accountancy (where a fair number of economic grads go in my experience) is pretty exacting - double entry (quiet at the back), is the same wherever you are in the world.
I hear that new mining projects in Australia are using driverless trucks and trains.
over zealous and bitter graduates in HR who realise that 3 years of hard drinking has left them as a pen pusher in a cubicle.
it took me six years...
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Chose the wrong trade tbh, the credit crunch made everyone realise that economics was as much a science as reading entrails and it makes no difference whether you employ someone with a masters, or someone with a pair of dice.
Odd, how many economists made a lot of money understanding the build up to the crisis and [b]then profiting from it. [/b]Don't forget even the economists at the BOE were talking about the risk well before the peak. That fact people still a wanted to gorge on debt in the meantime was a different issue altogether. I am mightily glad that my training allowed me to prepare properly and even to take advantage of events.
I am mightily glad that my training allowed me to prepare properly
You weren't on NatGeo Channel's [url= http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/ ]Doomsday Preppers[/url] by any chance?
Chose the wrong trade tbh, the credit crunch made everyone realise that economics was as much a science as reading entrails and it makes no difference whether you employ someone with a masters, or someone with a pair of dice.
To be fair economists do much more that just forecast macro-economic performance for government and business - as a degree there are a lot of direct and indirect career options.
There is an ongoing debate about whether economics at UG level is too narrow though...
