Do you ever use your degree?

Yes. Point of learning is to do 

I went to school for mechanical engineering and now work in finance. Therefore, I should never use my degree. However, it's constantly applicable in understanding the operations of companies and requirements in building. 

For finance majors, I see my friends use basic bond math and discounting cash flows. Simple, but you need to learn it somewhere. Also, writing papers in school is useful in learning to structure thoughts and ideas for pitches at work. 

You’re not going to use everything you learned in school, but there’s more applicable than you think.

I use it to an extent, but what I have learned on the job is far more valuable and relevant.

IMO almost all the value of a business degree (this includes finance) doesn’t come from the coursework but from things such as alumni networking, professional development seminars, OCR, and the various business/finance organizations you can join for extracurriculars. Only a handful of roles I ever applied to asked for a transcript pre-offer. 

Have literally never used a single thing I learnt in my degree (and have thankfully forgotten most of it). But I was a STEM major and went into finance so that’s probably why.

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I use my foreign language minor more than my major

A degree for the vast majority of white collar workers is just a right of passage (access to a network, experiencing independent living, access to career paths, personal challenge, extracurricular opportunities etc), most people don’t end up using their degree unless they’re in a licensed field or are an academic / teacher. 

Yes. I studied math. Advanced undergraduate level math or not-so-advanced graduate level math teaches you to think very abstractly about problems and gives you the ability to "model the world" using certain assumptions and hypotheses. On the other hand, the same old modeling caveat applies: garbage in, garbage out. Trying not to be that garbage math student. 

My co-workers studied physics, med, business, economics (double majored in econ), mechanical engineering, art history, computer science and all others. Sometimes people don't understand what "real logical thinking is" since there are basically classes as a math major that teaches you how to think logically. A lot of people don't understand this so they say hey this is not logical. Ironically, the reverse is usually true.

The few people that I know are good logical thinkers tend to be math, physics and computer science majors. The worst tend to be arrogant finance majors.

I'm not saying "finance majors", but arrogant finance majors. Sad thing is a lot of finance people are arrogant. I guess I am pretty arrogant too sometimes. Hope I could be aware of that. 

Absolutely. I did a Finance degree with a heavy focus on private equity. That gives me the ability to understand multiple sides of a deal and what sponsors like to see. Also, it gave me a great appreciation for living the good life :D 

As a finance student, I would say that extracurriculars are the place where you learn most of your knowledge while your professors supplement that knowledge with their expertise and experience. Definitely don’t discount the value of your degree as long as you have really good professors, who are able to offer you even a little tiny tidbit of knowledge that you prob would have never known if you just studied by yourself. And that tidbit could prob deepen your understanding of the field into a more holistic manner.

Of course, the purpose of the degree isn’t to make someone an expert, but rather build a solid foundation for a student to pursue expertise within the field they want. Therefore, the ultimate learning does come straight from the job or in grad school, but you won’t learn as much as you could if you didn’t build a solid foundation straight out of college.