what's your degree in?

can't comment on your question as i'm still at uni too!

I can't think of any job that's actually related to that except

1) being a Cultural Studies lecturer
2) being on one of those highbrow discussion programmes like Newsnight Review.

so far no-one's asked me to do the second one, and I don't want to do the first. I'm happy with my job (in public sector marketing) so I don't mind.

has absolutely nothing to do with my degree. Which was in languages.

and i wanna be a journalist. Kind of wish i had done english or something now

My degree is pretty useless and I hate it.

The three people I know who are doing the best right now all left school at 18.

One works as an IFA, one has set up his own plumbing/tiling business and the other is an estate agent. All earning well over 40K and not yet out of their twenties.

if you work hard enough to move into the sphere in which you studied, you'll get there eventually.

i did Media and Film Studies with English (similar to you) and I'm working in Marketing these days. But it depends on how hard you work. When I finished uni I ended up working in an admin office and then moved into Publishing. Eventually I got bored of all the really corporate shit and decided to work for a non-profit based and work on my other interests.

It all depends on you.

or was, before the rise of vocational-orientated degrees anyway

I now work in the Marketing team for a brewery.

So, er, yeah... my degree was pretty relevant to my current job.

and I use it for my job. Which is weird, because by the time I finished it I thought I never wanted to do anything design-related again.

I guess it just comes down to the fact that I can make more money doing something I'm qualified in than not, so I've kept doing it.

pretty much nothing. however some things may come into play later in life. maybe.

because I wanted to be a science journalist. It never quite worked (I was too impatient to earn money) and I now work in science publishing as a designer and production person. So it's pretty relevant. I hate offices though and would eventually like to run my own bar or restaurant. I've been working part time for years in restaurants and feel much more at ease in that kind of working environment.

And I work as a database developer. So my degree is still very relevant to what I do. However, I tend to think that once you get more work experience that becomes more relevant to where you are headed than the degree you did.

I now work 'in politics' so I guess it's related, but not really. My education helped to strengthen my political beliefs but it terms of the stuff I actually learnt, not too much of it is relevant.

has been related to my degree, in some way or another. However my last job began to steer me in a direction I didn't want to be going - it started out design related, then it just got boring. So I quit. I think whatever you end up to doing as a career, regardless of your degree, it has to be something you feel passionate about - this is the best way to increase longevity of a career path, if that makes sense.

Sometimes it helps me to come to terms with the fact that my education has little bearing on my employment.

I plan to sit around doing nothing. So yeah, pretty reflective.

I did my degree in Chemical Engineering and now work as a Chemical Engineer. Yay!

and now I just do a generic office job.
I don't think you necessarily have to use your degree in your career; learning for it's own sake is ok.
This may be self-justification though.

Hope to go into journalism...

I'm not ruling out doing something politics related just yet though.

a Physiology degree (which is not what I originally applied for but is what I ended up doing). I graduate this summer and definitely don't want to do anything in the same area career-wise. I'm taking a year out and going to figure out how best to get into one of the fields that really interest me - e.g. journalism, international affairs and development, etc. I'm considering doing the Teach First thing for a couple of years too, or maybe applying for the Foreign Service. Either way, I can't see myself staying in science.

will be reflecting the second degree i'm doing precisely, and the first....nnnot at all

What shall I do?

and now I work with technology. The content of what I do has very little to do with what I learnt in my degree. In fact the stuff I learnt at university is probably a bit too detailed for what I'm doing now, but it certainly helps.

to do with my current, and only (since uni) employment.

But i intend to rectify that soon. One way or another.

(unemployment will be alot like my degree)

and am then doing a social work masters, so it's been pretty useful.

thats why i dont have a job at all

a fine art/art history degree
all i know is i don't want to be an artist. So i'm accumulating £3000 debt a year of tution fees for no reason, yay!
I actually have no idea what i want to do, it worries me slightly.