Sadaiyappan
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- Nov 29, 2007
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I've been very happy with my 2 year degree. I knew exactly what I wanted to do after high school. Went the fast track with a two year degree and spent the other two years working doing contract jobs.
2 year degree + experience >>>>>>>>> 4 year degree + no experience
degrees are worth a crap if it gets you a job you like or at least offers you a decent lifestyle.
I just work construction with no degree, i live typical middleclass but its rather sad some of the guys i've seen work with me that have 2 and 4 year degrees in something.
I remember when the tech bubble burst in Silicon Valley there were guys with degrees that were making $150k+ starting new careers in construction making $50k. Working outdoors everyday isn't for everybody. I don't think many lasted.
One of my former students is majoring in film studies. Unless Siskel or Ebert die, I can't figure out what you would do with such a degree. "you'll study film history, theory, and criticism, as well as the basics of film production."
A friend of mine from college got this degree and he's done pretty well with it.
It's something of a nice self-sustaining cycle for some of the less-useful degrees: Most leave the program or leave the discipline, either to find better majors while still in college, or else to find crappy jobs outside of the field. The remainder are those who go on to teach the (arguably?) useless subjects to the next batch of students - such as this friend going for a Master's degree.My girlfriend’s friend got a BA in “women’s studies” which I can say I didn’t even know was a possibility. After not being able to do anything with it, she’s now working on getting her masters in it. I get in trouble with the girlfriend by saying she’s majoring in student loans.
Fun thought about history studies: the only reason they exist is because, like in too many cases of software development, people suck at documentation. If we did better documentation of daily life, just think, we could improve the efficiency of the future by (mostly) eliminating the need for historians.yea, I don't understand this either - why earn a useless degree? It cracks me up when people major in english, music, history, etc and then complain about not being able to find a good job.
may i ask what field? my degree in phil is pretty worthless right now.
Fortunately for him Siskel did die.
I was working towards Criminal Justice. My GPA wasn't good enough to get into the program and I left school with 106 credits. I returned 3 years later to finish my 120 credits and get the BES to have the degree when getting into law enforcement. I didn't get into law enforcement...so it was all for not.
One of my former students is majoring in film studies. Unless Siskel or Ebert die, I can't figure out what you would do with such a degree. "you'll study film history, theory, and criticism, as well as the basics of film production."
So the whole point of this degree is to have no specialization at all?I doubt it. I have a Bachelor of Elective Studies. It's not hard to figure out what school I went to if you search for the degree. LOL. The main requirements of the degree are:
- Completion of a minimum of 120 semester credit hours with at least a 2.0 grade point average
- At least 45 semester credit hours of upper division (300/400) level courses
- No more than 60 semester credits can be earned in any one discipline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKgSF0BNFrU&feature=relatedYou become angry that you're degree is so worthless, and then make a career out of reviewing old terrible video games.