A Worthless College Degree

I bet your major was useless, too.

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[jteruel671]

Nowadays, every major seems to be worthless. You have many people with engineering, law, and nursing degrees which are seen as "on-demand" but struggling to find work. Sooner or later med school grads will be fighting for limited residency positions.

[probrojeffro]

If you don't work toward your strengths, educate to your strengths, determine what YOU need you've just blown it. And you need to obtain not just knowledge but critical skills and attitudes to not only survive but thrive in today's economies.

[lordblazer]

@stebecool

yet my sister with an english degree is doing well for herself so what are you talking about?

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@Rosebunse

can get a job with mathematics. Just because it isn't matching a job description doesn't mean you can't get a job with it. Anyway people need to set goals on what they want to study and the options they have with it. I don't believe there is a useless major, just people not willing to look at all options thoroughly and be creative about their choices. I've seen too many successful people who got degrees in these so called "useless" majors for me to believe they're useless.

[lordblazer]

@markuseraccount

theater isn't too bad, can think of a few things you can do with it, but involves a lot more networking and social skills than people take for credit. lib arts majors do well, art majors do decent to. I think people need to have set goals in mind, and they are fine. I don't think the major matters all too much so goal as you set your goals objectively, and meet them, research whatever your major is, and know where to get your foot in the door afterwards.

[lordblazer]

@mochafudgetruffle

glad I did international studies in undergrad.... but hey I got a useless job working in international trade in Istanbul at a bank. but hey my major is apparently worthless. Turns out they loved to know which countries to not do business in, which banks in said countries to avoid etc etc. but hey like you said. I had a useless degree. whatever. It doesn't matter what you major in, if you go to school for a job with no goal in mind failure is your only result.

[vcdna1]

@Aceofspadezz69 I doubt you're a college grad.

[mochafudgetruffle]

Some of the most useless degrees are womens' studies, world religions, anthropology, philosophy, literature, drama/theater, government and political science. Psychology is also a bad choice. A business major is versatile and broad enough to be marketable, though. I would recommend majoring in business.

[MrPentatonicScale]

i bet her finance friend cut her salary in half after finance friend got promoted for knowing things

[HotCyberShot]

@Rosebunse Not necessarily, imagine a ladder. Someone who didnt go to college will start at the bottom and work their way up. Whereas someone with a business degree will be hired at a higher level. Now depending how good the degree is/how much experience you have, you may start at a level where your working with people math degrees etc. Or you could start even higher, or even get promotion faster than other people. The point is, business degrees are very useful in big businesses

[MrConservative608]

@markuseraccount I agree 100%. The woman in the video said she has a job in finance and works with a person who went to school & works with her in finance, yet I wonder how competent this woman is in her job. In my city, there are some very incompetent people working for employment agencies that tick me off because they don't write accurate job ads & that makes me wonder how intelligent these people are.

[markuseraccount]

Why are you guys brainwashing yourselves to think college is worthless. She has a degree in fucking theater. No shit she's not getting a job. Don't go to college and take a worthless major. Accounting, Nursing, Engineering, Physics and any degree that's actually worth something, you'll do great. Just work your ass off and don't take an easy major. It gets you nowhere.