Erbswurst's question about how you make money from the "profession" of bushcraft got me thinking. If most people are like me, when we here of a bushcraft degree, we think about what you can do directly with the knowledge learned in that degree and how you would take that to earn money. Usually the assumption is that one would go and teach, as many do who have taken a load of bushcraft courses from the various schools.
However, with this degree, I am not sure that it isn't like any other field. Since I studied mechanical engineering and have worked in aerospace engineering, I will take that as an example.
The vast majority of what I studied, the actual subjects that made up my course, have had no direct application to the work that I did in industry. I did not use my course knowledge of calculating steam expansion in turbines, or flow around blades, or my modelling of heat transfer in Fortran to earn money. I would not expect that the half year team project in off-shore wind turbines would be all that much use in designing real wind turbines. I think that my degree gave me a bit of a frame work to hang new information from and gave a visible measure of my aptitude for absorbing and working with that type of information. It shows that I can jump through widely recognised hoops.
The connection with work is up to each individual, and the person hiring. For instance, I have worked with a number of people with physics degrees, doing everything from electronics design to reliability analysis, all in aerospace. None of those jobs are really clear options when you are choosing or completing a physics degree.
I would never have imagined that there was paying work scouting sites in the jungle for corporate retreats for executives to meditate and become centered, but that is something my friend has done, and was something where they wanted to know his qualifications.
