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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
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i dont see why people just dont pick a field of trade?!  im in a program to get my aircraft/powerplant cert and its only a 2 year program that im guaranteed a job once im done and on top of that i can be picky and start at 60k+  with a extra semester i receive a associates in aeronautical science..  and im only another 2 years from a bachelor degree if i want..  i just dont get it..  why the fuck would you wanna do any of those things?  i know girls around here fucking flock to the film classes and production and performing art classes..  those classes are always full to the brim instantly and useless as fuck..  and i have a friend thats in psycology WTF  is that good for?  being a psychologist?  i just picked the short route and took a trade related subject that pays..


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
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lol. luckily for me, I finished gen eds years ago. I'm 26 and-- in the most technical sense-- a junior in college. :smile:


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: frith]
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Yes, but certs are in one particular area of expertise. One concentration.
Whereas a computer science degree encompasses many concepts.

And I still use things that I learned almost 10 years ago.
To say that the information becomes obsolete is just plain wrong.

e.g.:
Object-oriented programming hasn't changed one bit since I took the class.
I can still program in Java, C, C++, C#, etc.
Sure, new commands have been added, but that does not invalidate the knowledge.

Just one example.

Technologies typically evolve; they don't just radically change.
No more time to continue this discussion as I'm late for... class. :laugh:


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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reeferaddict69 said:
Any of you guys in one of these majors?


No, but often times I feel like my major could have been up there.  I love what I learned, but being unmarketable with debt sucks.

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: ifoundwaldo]
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Quote:
Why do you say this?

A doctor has to be one of the most rewarding jobs on the planet.
Why would you rather kill yourself?


Well, maybe a doctor wouldn't be so bad, but science-y stuff just bores the shit out of me for the most part. Sure, I'm really good at learning science and math when I apply myself, but I don't find any joy in it. Just saying I'd probably rather be dead (not really though) than work in a job I hated for 40+ years. Take my mom for example. She's a medical technologist and makes about 80k a year. So decent pay, 8 weeks paid vacation a year.... but I'd still rather make half that being a teacher than doing her boring ass job.



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BlueJayWay was the one who'd rather kill herself than major in something productive.


I consider psychology to be productive, considering our minds are what create the world around us, so...

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: DieCommie]
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Nope, multimedia programming for me (basically HTML, making websites, etc.). Microdoses of LSA have helped me out pretty nicely in that class. :hehehe:

The dude smoking out of his N64 controller is a fucking genius. :lolsy: I am now looking around my house for random shit to turn into a bong. My Xbox maybe?


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
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SamuelLJackson said:
ifoundwaldo said:
But yeah, gen eds are fun.


be careful making that assumption.

i took "the history of science" this semester because i figured a history course related to what i actually have interest in (as opposed to actual history) would be at least half decent and all i can think of now is how much i want to shoot myself over it.

the professor takes her job wayyyyyy too seriously and i honestly think she thinks the people who took the class took it because they actually care about what early scientists thought.

sometimes i just want to run up to the front of the class and beat her old ass down. its that annoying.

im probably going to fail because she expects us to write deep intellectual papers about people who had completely wrong theories, and i just cant do it. when i hear "and they thought the solar system was geocentric" i dont have anything stimulating pop in my mind. the only thing that pops in my mind is "wow, they sound like christians"

and when i turn that in (because i have to, i cant even pretend to give a shit about this stuff, its that horrible) she gives me barely passing/failing grades.

:rant:

sorry. i had to rant.


I couldn't agree more. If I hear the name Freud again in class...

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: wow]
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wow said:
i dont see why people just dont pick a field of trade?!  im in a program to get my aircraft/powerplant cert and its only a 2 year program that im guaranteed a job once im done and on top of that i can be picky and start at 60k+  with a extra semester i receive a associates in aeronautical science..  and im only another 2 years from a bachelor degree if i want..  i just dont get it..  why the fuck would you wanna do any of those things?  i know girls around here fucking flock to the film classes and production and performing art classes..  those classes are always full to the brim instantly and useless as fuck..  and i have a friend thats in psycology WTF  is that good for?  being a psychologist?  i just picked the short route and took a trade related subject that pays..


I don't really understand this either, vocational schools are very successful at getting people decent-paying jobs but everybody seems to aim for some fruity flower-scented college degree.

I'm going to college now, but it's because I've spent serious time thinking about what I want to do with myself as an adult, and my family can afford to support me comfortably while I study.

That said, my dad went to vocational school to get a job with his first employer as a computer technician, and he's still with them today as a software engineer for particle colliders and other such completely insane devices of exploration of the universe. Vocational schools cost money up front but they will fucking get you places.


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: sunset_mission]
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Kinesiology woot.

field is supposed to grow 27% thanks to the baby boomers trying to stave off death

Health fitness instructor FTW, never be rich but won't blow my brains out at 40.


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: RonaldFuckingPaul]
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Pretty sure mine belongs on that list.

Sports and Leisure studies. Fuck yeah :awesome:


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: PreparationH]
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Quote:
never be rich but won't blow my brains out at 40


See and that's what it's all about.
What I really wish I could do is just have enough money to buy like 3 houses and rent them out for eternal lazy person income. Then do whatever the fuck I want

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
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Tchan909 said:
I don't really understand this either, vocational schools are very successful at getting people decent-paying jobs but everybody seems to aim for some fruity flower-scented college degree.



I blame a lot of this on high schools.  They have this ridiculous expectation that most of their students are going to go to college and get college degrees.  And accordingly, they have a largely irrelevant curriculum that is not tailored at all for immediate employment or vocational schools.  Then the students get unreasonable expectations of their college degree as being a kind of 'get employed for free card', which it isn't.

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: DieCommie]
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It's true.

I actually read a funny article about this the other day, I saved it- Study Says College Isn't For Everyone

My favorite quote is at the end: "Higher ed policy analyst Sandy Baum told the AP the idea is to enhance opportunities for everyone. 'What we'd like is a system where people of all backgrounds could choose to be plumbers or to be philosophers,' Baum added. 'Those options are not open. But we certainly need plumbers so it's wrong to think we should be nervous about directing people in that route.'"


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
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One of my majors is philosophy, and yeah, I'd have to agree it's basically useless in terms of career opportunities afterwards unless you want to become a lawyer or teach philosophy, and there's so much competition in both these areas that you'll probably just end up working at Starbucks anyway.  I'm majoring in it because I find the subject material interesting, however, and not because I expect to land a career with it.  That's what one of my other majors is for: mathematics.  :yesnod:


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: deCypher]
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What type of career do you think studying mathematics will land you in?

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: DieCommie]
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I plan to teach at either the high school or community college level for a bit; primarily because I find it entertaining and for the free time inherent in summers off so I can write and try to get something published on the side.  :shrug:


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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: deCypher] * 2
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Sounds like a good plan.  :thumbup:

Working at a community college is sort of my dream job.  :lol:

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: DieCommie]
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DieCommie said:
What type of career do you think studying mathematics will land you in?


employers love mathematics majors. math can be applied to most anything in business, many business decisions are based off the numbers.

im in business management got like 7 classes left.

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: Beanhead]
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Beanhead said:
Yeah anything in science basically means MONEY (but a lot of studying/long time working)



Not with just a BS.  I've interviewed and hired tons of science majors to start under 30k.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: Top 10 Most worthless college majors [Re: badchad]
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do they have the opportunity through your company to have their masters paid for??


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