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Originally Posted by eric11210
It's not that I regret it. I did enjoy being in school. I enjoyed learning and I still do. However what I learned has very little to do with what I now do for a living and the pieces of paper I have mean exactly nothing to the clients I work for who only care if my writing is good and if I can get the job done on time. The irony of it all is that when I was 8 years old I knew I wanted to be a writer. It took going through 10 years of school and 19 different jobs before I got back to what I wanted to do when I was 8 and almost none of those 10 years of school or 19 jobs was particularly relevant since I was already getting praised for my writing when I was in high school.
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Not relevant? I would think that those years would provide you with experiences to draw upon for your writing. Be it fiction or non-fiction, having those experiences should, at the very least, make it easier to connect with your audience when writing.
I have degrees in Psychology and Economics, but I'm currently working as an Accountant. Not exactly related to my studies, but my education taught me how to think, how to research, how to write, how to interact with people... and that psychology degree actually serves me well in all facets of life by giving me insight to how people think.