“But since you’re in your early 20’s and full of raging hormones, you’re not hearing a word I’m saying, you’re just thinking about the after ceremony party.”
If everyone got one of those “marketable” degrees, then there would be a lot of unemployed people with “marketable” degrees. And, of course, there are already a lot of people who worked their way through college and still came out with debt because it takes a much higher proportion of one’s salary today than it did even 30 years ago.
Now if you lived in a Communist country, you’d still have to live with your parents, but you’d have a job and not enough money to buy enough food to be obese. Two out of three aren’t bad.
Actually, liberal-arts majors are doing fairly well in the current job market. Smart companies have learned that they’re often better at solving real-world problems than people with “marketable” degrees who have only memorized “how-to” books that will be obsolete in five years.
Okay—let me ask: What is a marketable degree anyway? I went to a liberal arts college, and took Comp Info Sys, and am sitting at my work desk typing this. Don’t worry, it’s my lunchtime. And @wbbh—what types are you actually hiring? Are you an HR person? Do you have a company? Or are we all just conjecturing here? I want a pickle. goes to get a dill
Go to a community college to get a skill. If you want an education, go to a university. If you want to be a teacher or a doctor, that can only be done at a university. A liberal arts education is not for the purpose of getting a job. It is to be challenged in your thinking, finding out what you don’t know, in other words to learn the wisdom of the ages. And believe it or not, that can help you in many more ways than simple skills
Night-Gaunt, I don’t know. I used to teach English as a second language to people from all over the world. When they found out that the US didn’t pay for college, they couldn’t believe it! They would look at me like I was crazy. Every stinking little country in the world pays for college…Yet the richest country of all, the US, doesn’t I’m sure it puts us at a disadvantage…
The Nihilist almost 12 years ago
Brewster… ever the optimist.
firedome almost 12 years ago
so there IS a silver lining to that cloud…
V-Beast almost 12 years ago
“But since you’re in your early 20’s and full of raging hormones, you’re not hearing a word I’m saying, you’re just thinking about the after ceremony party.”
Rakkav almost 12 years ago
And unless we really face what’s happening back down on Earth and act accordingly, all that is just the warmup act.
Varnes almost 12 years ago
I’ve got bad news and bad news….which do you want to hear first?
cdward almost 12 years ago
If everyone got one of those “marketable” degrees, then there would be a lot of unemployed people with “marketable” degrees. And, of course, there are already a lot of people who worked their way through college and still came out with debt because it takes a much higher proportion of one’s salary today than it did even 30 years ago.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Now if you lived in a Communist country, you’d still have to live with your parents, but you’d have a job and not enough money to buy enough food to be obese. Two out of three aren’t bad.
Ermine Notyours almost 12 years ago
There weren’t any fat women in the Soviet Union?
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Actually, liberal-arts majors are doing fairly well in the current job market. Smart companies have learned that they’re often better at solving real-world problems than people with “marketable” degrees who have only memorized “how-to” books that will be obsolete in five years.
Dragoncat almost 12 years ago
The worst part is… He’s telling it like it is!
madvirgo almost 12 years ago
Okay—let me ask: What is a marketable degree anyway? I went to a liberal arts college, and took Comp Info Sys, and am sitting at my work desk typing this. Don’t worry, it’s my lunchtime. And @wbbh—what types are you actually hiring? Are you an HR person? Do you have a company? Or are we all just conjecturing here? I want a pickle. goes to get a dill
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Go to a community college to get a skill. If you want an education, go to a university. If you want to be a teacher or a doctor, that can only be done at a university. A liberal arts education is not for the purpose of getting a job. It is to be challenged in your thinking, finding out what you don’t know, in other words to learn the wisdom of the ages. And believe it or not, that can help you in many more ways than simple skills
rvonluchen almost 12 years ago
What degrees are you hiring?
Varnes almost 12 years ago
Night-Gaunt, I don’t know. I used to teach English as a second language to people from all over the world. When they found out that the US didn’t pay for college, they couldn’t believe it! They would look at me like I was crazy. Every stinking little country in the world pays for college…Yet the richest country of all, the US, doesn’t I’m sure it puts us at a disadvantage…