Just curious to know but how many of you ended up in a career you actually intended to enter and received a degree in? I'll go...I have an industrial engineering degree but work in a chemical plant as a project manager. I use minimal parts of my degree on a daily basis.

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I ended up in my career on accident but I love what I do. Its definitely not what I thought I was going to be doing with my degree though, I will say that much.

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