Bachelor degree — the worst

I have a degree in Business Information Technologies; we had lectures in several domains such as programming, project management, accounting, marketing, … During this time, we had a lot of group projects. At some point, we had so many projects that we skipped some lessons to focus on the deadline. Not smart, indeed. Most of those highly demanding projects where programming related. Because of that, I perceived the whole business part of our degree as secondary. I was bored when I had to go to those classes.

After some time, I started to think:

“Are those lessons relevant to our future job?”

This was legitimate for me since the school insisted a lot on those IT projects. I was lost and was unable to find the answer to my worries. Instead of speaking with a professor (or anyone else) about my fears, I decided to keep everything for me and became very judgmental regarding my university.

Meanwhile, I wasn’t convinced that the (programming) projects were valuable either; some of them weren’t exciting or used “old-school” technologies. I started to question the quality of my studies, asking myself if the skills I was learning are relevant to my future.

This mentality spread through my studies, and that’s only after my first job that I understood how wrong I was. Both the technical and business lessons I had helped me and matched the requirements of the industry. I could develop new features on a project right at the beginning of the first day. Besides, I was capable of grasping what a customer needed. Find the competitiveness of a sector or budget a project, for example.