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Whatever happened to going to college of... you know... education?

Why cant I choose something that I actually want to learn about?

  • 12.13.2012 11:45 AM PDT


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Not everyone wants to be a programmer or an engineer. Plus, I wouldn't want to get a degree in something not what I like just so I can get a good job I don't like.

I hold a different view. I care about the lifestyle I can live outside of work rather than love of the job I do.

I'd pick up poop all day barehanded if it meant a raise - and I'd strive to be the best poop picker there ever was.

I'm awake 112 hours a week - work only constitutes 40-45 hours of that. If I have to do something less enjoyable to make sure the other 60+ hours are as awesome as possible, I'll do it.
I would rather enjoy all my life and have less money, then enjoy only a part of it and have more money.
This I make 40,000 driving fork truck at 21. Sure it's good money but the flipping 12 hour shift work sucks.

  • 12.13.2012 11:46 AM PDT


Posted by: Knux NY
Whatever happened to going to college of... you know... education?

Why cant I choose something that I actually want to learn about?
Sure do that, just don't feel afterwards you wasted 2 years of your life. 2 working years living at home
Possibly no expenses.

  • 12.13.2012 11:47 AM PDT
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Completely disagree with many of you. Philosophy majors -- at least the ones who take the program and the degree serious -- tend to do extraordinarily well on the LSAT and quite often make fantastic academic-style lawyers (e.g., judges, law professors, legal scholars, and similar).

While the degree might be useless for getting a philosophy-related job, it is a superb springboard for people who want to go on to law school afterwards.

  • 12.13.2012 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: WitchDocktor
I would rather enjoy all my life and have less money, then enjoy only a part of it and have more money.

It depends on the person and how they value aspects of their life. For a lot of people, especially as they grow older, the things they want to do cost a lot of money.

World travel? Delicious food? Sports cars? Early retirement? Those things are unreachable for say, a social worker.

Now, you might value how helping someone feels more than retiring, traveling to the countryside of Sicily, eating high end cuisine while driving a Ferrari. But given a choice in our materialistic world, quite a few people would rather have the Ferrari.

[Edited on 12.13.2012 11:49 AM PST]

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Posted by: Knux NY
Whatever happened to going to college of... you know... education?

Why cant I choose something that I actually want to learn about?

Why take only what you need when they can milk you with worthless gen ed?

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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.


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Posted by: WitchDocktor
Not everyone wants to be a programmer or an engineer. Plus, I wouldn't want to get a degree in something not what I like just so I can get a good job I don't like.

I hold a different view. I care about the lifestyle I can live outside of work rather than love of the job I do.

I'd pick up poop all day barehanded if it meant a raise - and I'd strive to be the best poop picker there ever was.

I'm awake 112 hours a week - work only constitutes 40-45 hours of that. If I have to do something less enjoyable to make sure the other 60+ hours are as awesome as possible, I'll do it.
Hah. Wait til you get a job you love. You'll feel completely different :-)

  • 12.13.2012 11:49 AM PDT


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Posted by: WitchDocktor
Not everyone wants to be a programmer or an engineer. Plus, I wouldn't want to get a degree in something not what I like just so I can get a good job I don't like.

I hold a different view. I care about the lifestyle I can live outside of work rather than love of the job I do.

I'd pick up poop all day barehanded if it meant a raise - and I'd strive to be the best poop picker there ever was.

I'm awake 112 hours a week - work only constitutes 40-45 hours of that. If I have to do something less enjoyable to make sure the other 60+ hours are as awesome as possible, I'll do it.
I would rather enjoy all my life and have less money, then enjoy only a part of it and have more money.
This I make 40,000 driving fork truck at 21. Sure it's good money but the flipping 12 hour shift work sucks.
I'm confused. Do you agree with me or Troll?
I agree that was a serious post.

  • 12.13.2012 11:50 AM PDT

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Well, since our society values independent thought and creativity so much, I would have to say anything involved in Economics, Finance, Engineering or any Law or Pre-Law degree. Of those, probably the Engineering degrees, especially in software, would be the most worthless.

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Posted by: x Foman123 x
While the degree might be useless for getting a philosophy-related job, it is a superb springboard for people who want to go on to law school afterwards.

Sure - and you might base those results on Philosophy teaching you to critically think more than a lot of majors.

But I personally would have still chosen a Business related field even if I wanted to be a lawyer (which was my original plan). That gives you expertise in a specific field of law, while also giving you an undergraduate to fall back on if the market for lawyers dries up.

  • 12.13.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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Well, since our society values independent thought and creativity so much, I would have to say anything involved in Economics, Finance, Engineering or any Law or Pre-Law degree. Of those, probably the Engineering degrees, especially in software, would be the most worthless.

Maybe it's the pre-exam jitters, but I'm torn between a polite tip of the hat for the satire or a 0/10.

  • 12.13.2012 11:52 AM PDT


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Well, since our society values independent thought and creativity so much, I would have to say anything involved in Economics, Finance, Engineering or any Law or Pre-Law degree. Of those, probably the Engineering degrees, especially in software, would be the most worthless.
Trolling?

  • 12.13.2012 11:52 AM PDT

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Well, since our society values independent thought and creativity so much, I would have to say anything involved in Economics, Finance, Engineering or any Law or Pre-Law degree. Of those, probably the Engineering degrees, especially in software, would be the most worthless.
Trolling?
No, he's drunk. Haven't you seen him today going on about the end of the world and the answers to life?
The internet is srs bsns today

  • 12.13.2012 11:54 AM PDT

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It's been my experience that most degrees are worth poop. The person with the degree tries to find a job related to their degree and more times than not are still not qualified for the job, despite having a degree for that specific work!

I knew plenty of people who went into accounting and failed miserably on their accounting tests for employment despite having their fancy degrees. And while they may get first dibs on employment openings, many businesses are just finding it easier to train new than rely on graduates.

  • 12.13.2012 11:55 AM PDT

"Before you insult someone, try walking a mile in their shoes. This way, when you insult them, you are a mile away and have their shoes."

I'll take a few popular ones:

-Economics and economics studies, or whatever it's called near you (too many people doing it, too little jobs)
-Psychology (Although a beautiful field, too little access to good materials for break-ins)
-Business and Management (Everyone and their cat has this degree by now)
-Woman's studies (Seriously, just be a gynecologist and have some fun with it)
-Game design/Software theory/Entertainment design (Basically, an engineering degree without the engineering part, just take CS)
-Natural systems/societies/whatever (Studying how plants go for a single purpose... just take biology, people)

Just my views on it. I don't really find any degree useless, but I find popular or subsection degrees (those which teach a part of a bigger degree, like game design is to CS), to be fairly useless.

  • 12.13.2012 11:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: The Cheese Lady
I knew plenty of people who went into accounting and failed miserably on their accounting tests for employment despite having their fancy degrees.

I'd question the college they went to if they manage to fail a CPA exam after graduating with an Accounting degree.

Posted by: davadude
-Economics and economics studies, or whatever it's called near you (too many people doing it, too little jobs)

Dayum brah, throwing my major under the bus.

I think you'll find Econ to have an extremely low unemployment rate in comparison to others. Useful website for those interested in finding more info on majors and unemployment/salary/salary growth/etc.

I will say it is an urban job. If you want the best pay and employability, you have to work in an urban area. You probably aren't going to find an Econ job in the wheat fields of Kansas.

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  • 12.13.2012 11:57 AM PDT

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If you're at an accredited college, there really isn't a useless college degree. Everyone goes there for various reasons. What your white, male, American would define as useless, someone from an impoverished nation, or even from a completely marginalized situation would see as heaven sent.

Contrary to the wonderful logic that the flood puts forth, there are many, many places in earth where they have yet to be "westernized", where good work can be done with a degree in what some would call useless.

So no, there isn't any useless degree from an accredited school.

  • 12.13.2012 12:01 PM PDT

English, Philosophy, Linguistics, History, any foreign language, Gender studies, African-American studies...

You pretty much have to go into academia and write a book if you major in one of these.

  • 12.13.2012 12:05 PM PDT

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I knew plenty of people who went into accounting and failed miserably on their accounting tests for employment despite having their fancy degrees.

I'd question the college they went to if they manage to fail a CPA exam after graduating with an Accounting degree.


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  • 12.13.2012 12:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: quickdog93
English, Philosophy, Linguistics, History, any foreign language, Gender studies, African-American studies...

You pretty much have to go into academia and write a book if you major in one of these.

So, you're saying I could be a fantastic lawyer without a philosophy background?
Or do social work, work in a third world nation, or developmental work without a gender or cultural studies?

Again, it's so sad people actually think with such a linear thought process. There are more to it than the sciences and maths.

  • 12.13.2012 12:07 PM PDT