Your Formal Education and How Relevant It Is

For those with a post-secondary education, how relevant is it to your IM? In other words, do you have a BA in political science and history, but those majors and degree is collection dust?

As I just mentioned, I have a liberal arts degree that isn't being put to use because I'm learned about something I love much more: entrepreneurship (although, if I could go to college again, I'd major in business-related subjects, but I discovered that during my senior year, which is pretty much too late). Although I ask for help, I consider my self autodidactic, which means I like to teach myself things; although right now I like to learn about things that will make me more successful financially, I love to learn for the sake of learning. That, I believe, is one of the keys to success businesses. Learn what you are doing wrong, learn what you are doing correct, learn how the improve.

My majors don't teach technical skills (seriously, how wants to be in a debate with a PS major when your points are cut-and-paste from your favorite cable news network?) useful in our industry, but they do teach research and analytical analysis. So, in that respect, they have tremendously helped me. Perhaps even more so than business, because although business teaches a lot of technical skills, I don't know what soft skills they teach (okay, I would still pick a BBA instead of a BA, but at the end of the day it may not matter).

So, what say you about your degree and what, if anything, you have applied toward the interwebz marketing?