Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

I'm talking about things you learned in the actual class part of college, not drinking, girls, etc. In your career, what skills or other things you learned in college had a direct impact in your job?

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

English (communications) classes helped a lot and I work in IT.

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

How to write.
How to think.
How to learn.

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

understanding what inductive and deductive logic are, and ways to apply them to problem solving, have been extraordinarily helpful. also, basic microeconomics.

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

1st time:
how to build scenery
how to move scenery
how to design scenery - no impact
how to stage manage
how to design lights - no impact
how to build props

2nd time:
MS Office
JCL
COBOL
IMS - no impact
DB2
SQL
C - no impact
C++ no impact

What I didn't learn in school that has had an impact
SOX crap
Paper work

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

Negotiation Skills.


fyc

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

Negotiation, accounting, microeconomics, financial analysis.

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

Time management and typography. Oh I learned about coke also...

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

The difference between Husserl's and Levinas' respective phenomenologies, although I think it probably fell out of my brain a while ago

Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college
 

How to play poker [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]