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Old 05-25-2007, 09:03 PM
danlux danlux is offline
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Default 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?
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Old 05-25-2007, 09:12 PM
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Default Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college

English (communications) classes helped a lot and I work in IT.
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Old 05-25-2007, 09:20 PM
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Default Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college

How to write.
How to think.
How to learn.
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Old 05-25-2007, 09:23 PM
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understanding what inductive and deductive logic are, and ways to apply them to problem solving, have been extraordinarily helpful. also, basic microeconomics.
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Old 05-25-2007, 09:29 PM
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Default 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
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Old 05-25-2007, 09:56 PM
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Default Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college

Negotiation Skills.


fyc
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Old 05-25-2007, 10:15 PM
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Default Re: Skills, ideas you learned in college

Negotiation, accounting, microeconomics, financial analysis.
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Old 05-25-2007, 10:27 PM
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Time management and typography. Oh I learned about coke also...
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Old 05-25-2007, 10:29 PM
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The difference between Husserl's and Levinas' respective phenomenologies, although I think it probably fell out of my brain a while ago
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Old 05-25-2007, 10:32 PM
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How to play poker [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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