heh, just realized, in my case, I should have probably taken courses called 'emailing managing directors', 'scheduling meetings in obsolete Lotus Notes versions

heh, just realized, in my case, I should have probably taken courses called 'emailing managing directors', 'scheduling meetings in obsolete Lotus Notes versions', 'using that one goofed-up sharepoint where you have to click through six unintuitive links to find the files that anyone actually uses'. (Yeah, I know, my current assignment is pretty lame, sorry-- my snark is directed at it, not you). Of course, I actually did learn this kind of stuff in college. You do similar stuff in the courses and it applies to the job in unpredictable ways. The point is that you learn to learn, and if you (with the college's help) do it right, you pick up the specific job skills much sooner. I know (from experience) this can be a painfully hard sell with HR at a lot of places, but saving a few months of learning-curve time for your employer or your clients adds value to the economy, especially in an economy where technology, tasks and jobs change so often.