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Originally Posted by sully_04
exactly.
employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.
Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.
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First-of-all, I'm not dropping out of college. I'm finishing it. Kicking and screaming, but I'm finishing it.
Second-of-all, the first place I worked was a place that I began volunteering at in 1998. Yes, I was 11, but the public library let me do things like straighten out books and help with stamping, etc.
That was after I worked in the school library all through elementary school.
Then when I was 16 I got a part-time job at the public library. I worked there until 19, when I quit to work at a theatre and at the library on campus.
I only quit the library on Campus to further pursue my education and career in theatre.
Follow-through is important, but I think I showed that I have it.
Third-of-all, I understand about liberal arts education being about process. I wasn't as frustrated with college until my junior year when almost everything I was being taught, I had already learned from on-the-job experience. I am one of the only theatre students at the university who is going out and working in the community.
I take my work and education very serious. Theatre is a competitive field. I know what's out there. But for me, classroom learning is not enough and, frankly, moves too slow.