Ten top tips for choosing your course 1. You do not need to pick a degree with a job name in the title in order to have a fulfilling and successful life! Of course, in order to become a medical doctor you will have to study extremely hard for a medicine degree for many years but the vast majority of jobs and careers do not require a specific degree 2. A degree can be used as a stepping stone – it shows an employer that you have a certain level of those all-important transfera