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My boss is retiring--now what?
My current boss is retiring at the end of September. I'm getting bits and pieces of info from people about the way things will be when she retires. I talked to my boss yesterday about my role after she retires and she really couldn't give me a straight answer. She basically said she was making reccomendations to her boss and he trusts those. The clincher is one of my coworkers that I'm not particularly fond of may be applying for my boss's position. I am up in arms about this. I don't know what to do. I also don't know if I should switch majors in college as I'm transferring this fall. I'm currently set for English which would help in my current job, but I'm interested in psychology and education. I can't apply for my boss's job because I don't have a four year degree. So it wouldn't do me any good to waste time with an English degree because it's going to take me awhile to get it and by then someone will have filled my boss's position. Help!!!!
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- Prof. CochiseLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The first answerer is correct about jobs and bosses - I bet he teaches English, though.
If I may be blunt:
Real degrees that enhance your ability and give you a qualification for a job include business, engineering, and education.
Degrees that only qualify you to apply to graduate school and to be a welcome conversationalist at dinner parties: English, Psychology, ancient and modern languages, and the like.
I know a young woman who has a degree in Medieval French studies. She is an excellent waitress.
I have a daughter who insisted on getting her degree in English - she now is in a two-year education certification program so she can get a teaching job. In those same two years, with an education degree, she could have gotten her Masters.
Source(s): Many, many years in academia, and still regularly astonished - CanProfLv 71 decade ago
I'd hold off switching majors it I were you. English is a surprisingly useful and flexible degree. Being able to communicate well in writing is a skill which is widely transferable and applicable. You might hedge your bets with a judicious selection of electives and, if necessarily make some course switches in January. Also, the reality is that you are unlikely to go through life getting bosses you like and who are necessarily overly fond of you. If you bail out each time you don't get a nice boss you are going to be in real trouble.
Good luck.
- 1 decade ago
let her retire you will have your own time of being a boss. Realx man let things come to you. dont crave out for 'em.
