I was in FFA three years and served as the Chapter secretary during my senior year. Went to school at Michigan State University and have what might be the last, or at least one of the last Dairy Science Degrees they awarded. I worked on a few dairy farms after I got out of college, taking a pay cut to do so, because the last three years I was in college I worked as a turfgrass mechanic for a local country club. I made more pulling wrenches than pulling teats. I graduated about the time President Reagan figured out it was cheaper to pay folks not to milk cows rather than buying up all the surplus milk to keep the prices up. After about a year and a half I joined the Air Force, the college degree and the leadership skills I developed in FFA helped me be a successful Air Force Officer (4054B). But then peace broke out and they didn't need airpower as a deterrence so they laid a lot of us off (cut my position while I was serving in Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield). In the 22 years I've been out of the Air Force 12 of that has been in agricultural fields (rendering plants and egg processors). My course of study at Michigan State would now be called Animal Science, in that vein I would say I'm working in my career field, but as a Maintenance Manager an engineering degree would probably have served me better. While at MSU I kept trying to take business courses and kept getting bounced out of them as I was not a business major and they were over enrolled. Could never understand why good old MSU, one of the nation's pioneer land grant institutions couldn't figure out that farming is a business, and if you don't have business sense or education you won't be successful as a farmer, or won't be able to last long enough to learn the business side of farming from the school of hard knocks. Of course watching some of the "educated" people I've worked with struggle with basic business requirements of their jobs (budget, travel vouchers, expense accounts, and business purchasing) I strongly feel colleges should require a core of business classes for any degree as most graduates will be working in some kind of a business.
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