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Re: Shameful
Well this might be the right moment to ask this one:
Is it anyway possible to start a professional career in paleontology
(starting with a PhD) for someone who has no degree in biology or
earth sciences (but a degree in an applied field of life sciences)
but who is dedicated enough to get his basic knowledge (and more)
from self-study?
Just a question.
Pieter Depuydt
> > I'd like to know how this working outside their field of study thing
> works.
> > Is a degree in chemistry aplicable to software design? Is a sociology
> > degree good enough to get a RN's job? See what I mean! Specialized
> > education, specialized jobs to match.
>
> In my experience, very few people will actually seek such specialised,
> subject-limited jobs. I graduated this June from an English university,
> where the degrees are much more specialised than those in the U.S.A. So
> far, my contemporaries who have found jobs include:
>
> A Maths graduate now working in advertising.
> A Chemical Engineering graduate now working as a management consultant.
> An English graduate and a Politics and Economics graduate now working in
> journalism.
> An English graduate and a Politics and Economics graduate now working in
> accountancy.
> An English graduate and a History graduate now working in teaching.
> A Politics and Philosophy graduate now working in publishing.
> An English graduate now working in a pressure group.
> A Politics and Economics graduate now working as a solicitor.
>
>
> Yours extremely off-topically,
> Avis
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