"Handy" Watching what is meant by the word. Actually, I'm working on a specialty, and has always worked, including in the university years. So I can not say that the basics of the profession received in high school. But over the years I have definitely become more rapid and bold, nimble, skillful, and more resourceful. Plus should understand that without the university, I would not have had access to a variety of people and activities that he gave me. So I am grateful to the university gave me much more than instruction "how to do A to get B", it is very easy to learn.
I can say this: I have not worked in the specialty for a minute, in the first semester realized that it's not mine. Five years of combined study of the strength of materials and termehu work on freelancing, it was not easy. But I have never regretted this time 🙂 Firstly, the university - it is primarily a school of life, not a place where you get a profession. Obviously, you come back quite a child, and during study learn to get out of different situations. In life, it comes in handy. And secondly, I learn a lot from different areas over five years, to communicate with different people. I still remember how our physics - seemingly absolutely simple pensioner - read scientific journals in English, a very interesting person. All this leaves a strong trace, and then somehow suddenly may occur.
My specialty - applied linguistics. English + programming basics, basics of machine translation, search engines... The part after the plus sign is outdated already time studying English for a long time :) otlozhivalsya at work (in the Russian-language publishing house) was not at all necessary, or very rarely. For myself sometimes read books in the original, so do not forget. Now - 20 years later - the main working tool. I write texts in Inglish in IT companies. A solid base is still very helpful, and vocabulary - will come with time.
I quite seriously once in a life useful to the Old Slavonic language, so that the greatness of philology is undeniable.
I studied for four years at Tourism management. Really I wanted to sit at a travel agency, and send people to travel. But my desire was quiet at the time of graduation. The travel agency I worked for a single day. And not a day had not thought about his diploma, did not even know where he is. I learned at the next harvest. I found an old bag, decided to hand over to the collection point, looked, saw the red book. I think that for... a diploma! Bag passed, and cum again somewhere.
First there was the unfinished inyaz. Handy. He worked as a translator and editor of translated literature. Especially remembered lessons on the theory and practice of translation, stylistics of the Russian language (textbook Irina Golub still always with me). Further completed the Literary Institute. Handy. After the institute immediately got on a specialty in Russian Folklore Center editor. Parallel Levachev Ghostwriter and wrote "under Pelevin." Here assisted prose theory and stuffed hand. Generally, in work and in life has always been a place of knowledge and skill to write everything in the world - and then, and more delivered from Lita.
After graduation (I'm a choreographer by training) I have not worked in the specialty for a single day. I think that the formation of use to me in the sense that the five years we have danced: classical dance, folk, modern. As a result, I have good flexibility and motor coordination. In other words, I feel my body and control it better than a person who never engaged in sports or dancing. It helps to learn new moves and feel comfortable in any kind of training.
My specialty "State and municipal management", she futility only slightly inferior to the journalism faculty. So it was not useful 😱