A question a day. From science to sports, literature to leisure, God to groceries. As two 19 year old college students from Ronkonkoma, NY we know less than we think. This is to get us thinking.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Question 36
Sorry its been a week. How do you think school (college in particular) will prepare you for the working world?
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I think that school only prepares you in a theoretical sort of way for your real job. There is nothing like actually going out, being on your own and doing a job. School can prepare you to think a certain way, but you will never have the actual expereience until you are there, doing the work yourself. I know for myself, my first job after here will use 0 electrical engineering. I wll have to be a personnel manager, and a leader of people on a boat. I will have to relearn a lot of stuff about boat engineering, and that will be a new challenege for me, but not one that any class can really prepare me for.
But yeah I totally agree. I think that there is only so much theory you can learn. You never know until you're out there. I think that I've learned so much this year through being an RA and so much of it is just real life experience. We got trained in the beginning of the year but you don't learn until you actually do it firsthand in real time. Leadership has so much to do with interpersonal skills, communicating, and handling people. Thats the kind of stuff you really need firsthand experience to best learn. Theory only takes you so far. Not to mention all the stuff besides working like relationships, being a good father and husband, managing your house and finances, theres so much more to be learned.
I literally just wrote a really wrong comment here but the website crashed and it was not saved. Ill try to remember what I typed.
ReplyDeleteI think that school only prepares you in a theoretical sort of way for your real job. There is nothing like actually going out, being on your own and doing a job. School can prepare you to think a certain way, but you will never have the actual expereience until you are there, doing the work yourself. I know for myself, my first job after here will use 0 electrical engineering. I wll have to be a personnel manager, and a leader of people on a boat. I will have to relearn a lot of stuff about boat engineering, and that will be a new challenege for me, but not one that any class can really prepare me for.
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ReplyDeleteBut yeah I totally agree. I think that there is only so much theory you can learn. You never know until you're out there. I think that I've learned so much this year through being an RA and so much of it is just real life experience. We got trained in the beginning of the year but you don't learn until you actually do it firsthand in real time. Leadership has so much to do with interpersonal skills, communicating, and handling people. Thats the kind of stuff you really need firsthand experience to best learn. Theory only takes you so far. Not to mention all the stuff besides working like relationships, being a good father and husband, managing your house and finances, theres so much more to be learned.