BS in Economics and currently work in an office for a construction company, but I'm considering going back for a tehcnical degree. Right now I'm looking at Software Engineering (my first major was Aerospace Engineering and have taken some Computer Science classes so hopefully I can hack it). It's been 10 years since I was in University so I'm gonna be the creepy old man on campus.

 

This is true...I had a gf going into college and wasn't very conscious of it. After we broke up, it was definately more apparent. I saw it sometimes as less of a destraction and when my buddies and I wanted to see girls we would go to Berkely, Davis, SF and Sonoma. But it still was lame.
The thing that really attracted me to the school was the job placement program the school had when I was applying. They had 99% job placement with average starting salaries of $70k. Of course I don't think it is that high anymore, but I was set up with an interview for my current job from that school.

 

You still have a job with a construction company? lots of people I know in that business have been laid off, mind if I ask which outfit you work for (PM me if you'd rather not post)

 

My exgf goes there. We broke up after she started attending. Job placement is very good though. One of my friends who graduated from there has a well paying job with Chevron now, but he is also feeling the effects of being on a barge for 3 months at a time.

 

That's funny haha

 

Oh its a disaster out there, this can't be understated . I'm very lucky that I work for a small family business (new home residential development) but all projects are pretty much dead. So that's why I'm using this downturn for retraining since new construction is gonna be non existant for the next year or two.

 

major: electrical engineering
now: performance analyst for an investment management firm

trying to figure out how i can round out a strong grad or b-school app.

 

Tiger Woods, Godfather, Resistance, The Force Unleashed, and a bunch of others.

 

Sounds familiar. Started at UCSC in CS/CE path (hi Leo ), then decided I wasn't into the programming side (they were still hung on non-OO stuff, then tried to switch midstream to OO, which screwed up a bunch of people in the transition period. I got sick of too much theoretical math and programming since it wasn't what I wanted to do. Went to business management/econ because I had burned enough time in the CS path already and just wanted to clear out with a business degree with an IS concentration since my technical experience was already there. I'd always done IS stuff prior to and during school, but the tech economy tanked as I was finishing up, so I took a support job and ran with it. Now, I'm a senior tech with Cisco doing unified communications/conferencing......worked out pretty well in the end.

 

Ortho's definitely has the best lifestyle of any dental specialty. Most orthodontists I know spend more time on the golf course than they do in their office. It's the most competitive specialty to get into though, only because of how popular it is. It's like the dermatology or radiology of medicine.

The going rate in the bay area for a hygienist is ~$450/day. Not bad for a 2-year degree.