I loved this article

[dancerjodi]

About a guy that started a website to support blue collar workers, and those wishing to go into blue collar work:
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Blue Collar stuff

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"i'm really happy that i landed in carpentry, even with the BA, and i'm glad i went to college too. it's weird like that..."

My Dad is a licensed and insured contractor (though he doesn't have his GC licence yet) and has found that he's been more sucessful BECAUSE he has a degree (he went to The Art Institute of Boston) and he ran a printing/graphic arts business for over 10 years after college (after PCs came out, it kind of killed a lot of what he did for people i.e. business cards, purchase orders, etc).

He's not "your average grunting working guy" so he can communicate more easier with the average paying customer (someone that's most likely gone to college and is in the white collar world).

So yeah, I think that there's lots of things you can get from a degree (other than student loan debt and a piece of paper), even if you're not in your originally chosen field :)

Congrats on the job, it sound really neat (from what Tember has said)!