 Wojak wants to be a famous artist so he goes to school to get a modern art degree. He's an emotional wreck and constantly worries that he might be wasting four years of his life and a hundred thousand dollars on a useless piece of paper that won't actually help him achieve his goals but he keeps doing it because that's what everyone else is doing too. But then one day Elon comes to town and he destroys Wojak's arguments with facts and logic and he gives Wojak the secret golden advice that changes his life. With his newfound confidence Wojak finally has the courage to drop out and start taking action to actually get a job as an artist. It's not easy but a few years later Wojak has his dream job working as an artist and he's built up an amazing portfolio and he's also started his own business on the side. Wojak looks back on his friends who went on to get art degrees and none of them are working as artists. They're all working minimum wage jobs that have nothing to do with art. So as somebody who went all the way through the university system and got a doctorate I know from firsthand experience that a lot of degrees are really useless and they lead to high unemployment rates. So in today's video I'm going to be talking about the top 10 college degrees with the highest unemployment rates and we're going to start with number 10 which is philosophy and religious studies at 7.2% unemployment. One of Rome's greatest emperors Tiberius was once quoted as saying a good shepherd shears his sheep. He does not flay them. And this statement was directed towards the generals and the elites that oversaw the regions of Rome and it was meant as a warning to not excessively tax or treat the people in those regions unfairly and it worked under Tiberius Rome prospered and everybody from the peasants to the elites benefited from the situation but it didn't last because just a short time after Tiberius' death and as Rome devolved the rich got richer and the poor got nothing for all the hard work and they were basically being directly or indirectly enslaved and this is the situation that is happening in the modern world as well. Although we don't often see direct slavery anymore what we do see is indirect slavery in the form of debt and the worst type of debt slavery is student loan debt because you can take out a ton of money at a young age and you can't default on it. Now society has programmed you to believe that the only way to be successful is to get educated and I actually agree with that but not in the same way that colleges mean. You see colleges convinced you that the only way to get educated beyond high school was to go to college which to be fair for a very long time was a great investment then they made college ridiculously expensive they created a bunch of useless majors and they incentivized people to get bachelor's degrees where they wouldn't be able to get a job and therefore they'd have to go back to college and get a master's or a doctorate which conveniently leads them to making double the amount of money and this is exactly what's happened with philosophy and religious studies and many of the degrees on this list. You absolutely do not need to go to college to study these things. There are hundreds of options out there to study philosophy for free or at a fraction of the price. For instance the best colleges in the world offer a lot of their curriculum completely free like MIT OpenCourseWare. There's also an abundance of free or cheap resources online like YouTube, Google, Udemy, Skillshare, etc. and you can literally hire people that have doctorates in philosophy for one-on-one coaching at a fraction of the price. If you watch this video and really pay attention to what I'm talking about you're going to have an unfair advantage over most of the people who don't do their research and this is why 95% of people are not passionate about their jobs and I'm sorry if I seem so serious about this but I really do want to make an impression because this is an incredibly important choice that you're making at such a young age. Number nine is going to be film, video and photography arts and this one has a 7.3% unemployment rate. Now let's face it for every Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese there's a hundred film graduates that are working at Starbucks. So this is an example of a degree that tries to teach you something that you can only learn by experience, only learn by actually doing it. Now I told this story on my channel before but a friend of mine immigrated to the United States from Lebanon and he did it in his mid 30s and he completely changed his career from pharmacy technician to photographer and he ended up getting an award for being the number one photographer in Las Vegas which is a very competitive market. So he went from zero knowledge in photography in his mid to late 30s and completely broke as an immigrant to making six figures as a top tier photographer and he did all of it within just a few years. Now do you think he went and got a photography degree? No of course not he just looked up the best wedding photographers and then he tried to recreate their photos then he got to the point where he was good enough to actually do some weddings he did some for free and then after he did some free ones he had a good portfolio built up he started charging for them and for the film side of things I hear this story all the time of people who actually will try to create their own personal brand on YouTube and other social media platforms in order to try to break into Hollywood. So this is what Key and Peele did for instance and to be honest with you this kind of blows my mind a little bit because Hollywood is kind of a dying industry and the creator economy is on the up and up. So I was on vacation a few weeks ago on this nice little surfing island called Siargao and I actually ran into two people who had been working in Hollywood for over 20 years and they told me that if they were going to do things over again today they would actually start by creating their own personal brands online and then they might try to break into Hollywood but chances are they would probably just stick to the personal brand because there's more opportunity there right so Hollywood has a ton of gatekeeping there's ton of politics as well there's a lot of shady stuff going on and then you have people like Mr. Beast that just got offered a billion dollars for his brand who launches hundred million dollar companies like Beast Burger or Feastables with a single video and they also told me that a lot of people in the lower and mid-level positions in Hollywood are really tired of all the woke BS that constantly gets crammed down their throats but they're too afraid to say anything right because if they said anything they'd probably lose their job and they wouldn't get hired again so this is why you need to go where the opportunity is that is the slogan of the channel because most people just go into a career because they saw it on TV or because their friend said it was cool or because they happened to know somebody in the career or because their family wants them to or something like that instead of going into the career for the right reasons and doing the proper research and that is just going to lead to a ton of anxiety and unneeded stress that's completely avoidable number eight on the list is going to be fine arts at 7.4 percent okay so art is something that is constantly changing art that was considered good 50 years ago isn't necessarily what is considered good today and all you have to do is look at just about any type of art from movies music to fashion now another thing you want to notice is typically the people who make the best art tend to be under 35 years old this is probably because young people tend to have what's known as fluid intelligence whereas older people have crystallized intelligence and that basically just means that young people tend to be more creative so if you want to be successful as an artist if you want to do art as a career probably the worst possible thing that you could do is go to art school for four years and spend a hundred thousand dollars because by the time you get to pay back that student loan debt and actually start your life you're probably going to be around 40 years old like seriously i think that getting a useless degree might be the single thing that has killed the most hopes and dreams of artists so getting a useless degree is probably the worst thing you could possibly do as an artist and i don't have time in this video to go over it in detail but definitely check out the book steel like an artist by austin clion i was a little worried when i first read this book because i thought it was just going to give you the typical you know follow your passion advice that you hear parroted by everybody but it was actually refreshingly practical so this book gives you practical actionable advice on how you can actually make money as an artist and the author of the book agrees with me that typically college is not going to be the right answer if you want to see an example of this just look at ashley who was an artist that i interviewed who went through the college system and had a terrible experience and then she was able to land a digital marketing job and start her art company on the side and the reason she was able to launch her business on the side is because digital marketing is an in-demand skill that gave her the time money and flexibility that she needed to do that so yeah you can definitely check that video out it's a great interview number seven on the list is going to be a liberal arts degree at seven point six percent unemployment all right so liberal arts is really interesting and my personal favorite subject might be history and i absolutely love reading books from authors like james mitchner and leon urus i also love listening to dan carlin's hardcore history podcast and he talks about things like the fall of the roman empire as well as the rise of jengus con but does that mean that i would get a history degree in order to study this stuff absolutely not well during college for a brief period i actually thought about doing this so what did i do i took some history classes and what i found is it sort of ruined my passion for history so they made me read and write essays on parts of history that i don't particularly care about they also made me do really tedious things like memorizing dates and all this stuff can be looked up in five seconds so it seems pointless to me to just try to memorize it because you're just going to forget it two weeks later and on top of that i could tell that many of the professors were extremely biased and yes they were teaching history but they were really teaching their version of history which didn't necessarily align with reality so i quickly figured out that i didn't want to actually major in history because it would kind of ruin something that i really enjoyed doing as a hobby but ironically by not majoring in history i started this youtube channel and i get to include historical anecdotes like i did in this video so i definitely would not get a history degree and i think the same thing goes for like 99.9 of people out there and with a liberal arts degree you'll have time to ponder the deep existential questions like do you want fries with that no really do you want fries with that but all joking aside if you know any friends or family members that could use this type of advice that needs some practical advice like this definitely send this video to them i get a ton of comments from people who actually found my channel because a friend or a family member sent it to them when i was making this channel i wanted to make the resource that i wish i had when i was 18 all right so number six and five are going to be a tie and that is going to be studio art at eight percent and commercial art and graphic design at eight point one percent unemployment rate so typically especially with degrees like this university is going to teach you the bare minimum that you need to know in order to do the job right so it's just going to give you an overview of a bunch of different things it's essentially teaching you how to be a generalist and the thing about that is you can access all of that type of information completely free online now there are some college degrees that actually teach you how to be a specialist and of course we're not talking about those in this video and i cannot emphasize how important it is for you to be a specialist because there are plenty of talented artists all over the world for instance there are people in the philippines who are really talented artists and they can do the same type of generalist type work for a fraction of the cost and the funny thing is even with the degrees that are relatively specific for instance there's universities out there that will literally let you create your own degree it's almost like the bill to bear workshop of degrees like for instance there's universities out there that will let you do a youtube studies degree for instance and spend a hundred thousand dollars on that but i want to ask you a question who do you think is going to be more successful somebody who goes to college for four years and studies a youtube studies degree or somebody who just spends four years making youtube videos i absolutely guarantee you that the person who's taking action making youtube videos for four years is going to know way more about youtube than the person who does a youtube studies degree because as a professional artist whether you like it or not your value is based on the opinion of other people so the only way for you to get better is to put your art back there make sure to get feedback from it and then make it better the next time passively consuming information or even studying information in a university is not going to make you an expert on the subject and an art degree is a great way for you to turn your love of art into deep deep debt and no time for enjoyment because you're working two minimum wage jobs trying to pay off your student loans number four on the list is going to be general social sciences at eight point two percent unemployment now one thing i didn't include on this list that is extremely important is under employment so unemployment is really important but under employment is something you should look at as well and that basically includes people who are employed technically but they're not doing anything that is anywhere near related to what they actually went to school for and in many cases they're working minimum wage or close to minimum wage type jobs so one degree that leads to a ton of under employment is psychology there's a hundred and twenty seven thousand psychology graduates per year and i think the main reason for it is because psychology is really interesting i mean i love psychology i think it is super interesting i even took extra classes in psychology but do you think there's a hundred and twenty seven entry level jobs available especially at the bachelor's level definitely not and so this is why many of these people end up unemployed or underemployed and the people who do end up getting jobs of course have to go to graduate school and remember half of student loan debt comes from grad school so it's essentially just an upsell so for most people getting a psychology degree or a social science degree is kind of like going to a restaurant paying first and then you get to see the food but you never get to actually eat it number three on the list is going to be an international business degree at eight point five percent unemployment so i was slightly surprised to see this one on the list because the statistics for it are relatively decent but i think one of the big reasons for this one is simply because people don't plan ahead enough so if you're going to do international business you need to be a specialist it's incredibly important right so you probably want to be a specialist between two different countries or cultures so for instance you could be somebody who is an expert in international business between the united states and Mexico this of course would require you to know how to speak both English and Spanish but you'd also have to be familiar with the countries cultures business laws etc and most people simply do not think this far ahead they just study international business because they think it's interesting they get the degree and then they aren't able to get a job number two on the list is going to be linguistics and comparative literature at 10.2 percent unemployment so this is another one where it is fairly interesting but there is simply no jobs for this skill set if you want to make money writing for instance you do not need to go to school and become an academic technical writer in order to make money because the truth is the people that are going to pay you your audience typically they're not going to be professionals they're not going to be academics they're not going to be professors they're going to be normal people those are going to be the people who are consuming your content and by the way i believe artists and creators are going to absolutely dominate in the next 10 to 20 years but it's not because they went to college in fact i think you're going to have a massive advantage as an artist if you don't there's never been a better time to either be a creator or work for a creator and working for a creator that's already successful is basically like getting paid to have a mentor so if you want to learn how to be an effective communicator again it all comes down to either working for a creator or just start creating on your own and make yourself a portfolio there's basically no barrier to entry here anybody can just start writing online releasing it and start getting feedback number one on the list is going to be an architecture degree at 10.6 unemployment and an architecture degree is a perfect way to learn how to design buildings that are too expensive for anyone to actually build so this is another one that probably surprises you a little bit and i think it kind of falls under the same category as psychology where it's just inherently an extremely interesting subject i mean who wouldn't want to design a building and then see that project come to life so this combined with the fact that you're probably going to have to get a graduate degree leads to a supply and demand imbalance architecture degrees are also extremely challenging and there's a lot of talented architects out there but unfortunately there's not that many businesses hiring and this is why it's so important for 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