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Honestly very little. I work in IT as an administrator for financial applications. It's useful background info to understand what end users are doing but not truly relevant day to day
MIS class taught me the basics of SQL so that was helpful. Of course most of your ladder climbing means having to build upon things yourself too. Truth be told, like most other IT pros, we google stuff all the time.
Also as a result of having to go to college for years, I gained a lot of IT skills that don't directly affect my job but support my ability to do it. I need not have to mention social skills too.
Yes. I'm a lawyer who majored in Linguistics as an undergraduate. It was just a couple of months ago that I used something I learned about aphasia in a mental health case I was working on.
No. Not a single thing. In my new job I won't be using a single thing either. For the latter, I don't mind because the pay is satisfactory to me. Additionally, it is the kind of job I will "enjoy" a hell of a lot more than I have many other things in the past. Even if I don't like it outright, the pay is good enough I am willingly to stay long-term. Besides, the position allows transition to other sectors within the organization. Still, I do kind of wish I'd have used my education...unfortunately, I never did land a job in my field...Sometimes all you can do is move on.
Formal public speaking, critical thinking, physics, chemistry, math, business writing, statistical analysis, computer literacy.....
And my degree has nothing to do with my trade.
An education should benefit you a lot more than just providing job skills.
Undergrad, not really. Grad, yes. But (although mine wasn't one of them) there are many majors who use what they learned.
And although I don't use much of what I learned in undergrad in a direct way, it helped me (so I use it) in an indirect way. And that indirect way can be much more valuable.
also for me, defect analysis/triaging/learning various integrated development environments/linux kernal and shell programming(fifo sjf fcfs resource management)/matlab/knowing how to do exception handling/learning how to diagnose race conditions and deadlocks/ethereal-wireshark/ping/traceroute/ssh/scp/sftp/httpd/html/pmd/tech writing/systemview/soldering/circuit analysis/...
in a nutshell, learning to be adaptable. some of my co-workers become very inefficient when we change from something like ms-access database to an rdbms like sqlite3.
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