Poll: Is your 4 year degree more useless than mine?

[Genx87]

Glad my parents forced me to get a degree worth something. Though at the time they werent paying for it so I could had told them to fly a kite. Earned a BS in Management of Information Sytems with a minor in Computer Science.

None of my friends got those silly liberal arts or general studies degree's. But I imagine those are nearly useless for trying to find a job. I cant for the life of me understand why people go to big schools for those kinds of degree's. They get out with 20-50K in debt and cant get a job worth anything to pay back that debt. It should be a crime for schools to charge so much for so little.

 

[*kjm]

I never bothered to go to a 4 year school, did some courses at some community colleges a while back when I got my CCNA but that has since lapsed and I am operating on experience at this point (30 years old) and well into $100k+ a year without any formal degree or anything. I have almost thought about trying to get some joke Bachelors only so I can get an MBA but other than an MBA a bachelors wouldn't yeild anything for me now that I don't already have...

Same for me… did a two year electronics degree at a good school in electronics and the E.E.’s mentored me to their same level. Did field service that they didn’t want to do and made a mint, almost 3 figures. I got sick of travel so now have a local job making good money that is why I said he/she should have the question is my two year better than my four year.

 

[Hacp]

Same for me… did a two year electronics degree at a good school in electronics and the E.E.’s mentored me to their same level. Did field service that they didn’t want to do and made a mint, almost 3 figures. I got sick of travel so now have a local job making good money that is why I said he/she should have the question is my two year better than my four year.

3 figures, thats a hefty sum there.

 

[hanoverphist]

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 good cinematographer has to know all those things. i also had too take a bunch of courses in that same vein for my digital animation production degree. it really helped with the visualization and creating decent camera angles/ shots.

What degree do I need to be a middle manager?

my ex worked for a very large convenience store corp office. she had the knowledge and skill to be management, but was always passed over due to not having a degree. one of the shittiest bosses she had held an assoc degree in sandwich making. literally. the uppers didnt care what degree it was, just that she had committed and obtained a degree.

I got a degree in Philosophy, which was probably about the best degree I could have gotten for my field.

i read that the most common degree for CEOs was philosophy. soounds about right to me, that top echelon has to be able to think progressively as well as abstract


i have a BofA in multimedia specializing in digital animation production with a minor in game design theory. long ass name, almost too many technical classes (web programming, vb, a bit of c++ and a ton of different scripting) as well as 4 different animation programs (lightwave, 3dsmax, soft image and maya) plus all the regular multimedia progs (photoshop, after effects, premeire, avid, director, author, flash, etc). i went back to my college after a few years and they had split the program i was in in to 3 main degrees with 6 different focuses. mine is not useless at all, but i still dont see yours as useless either.

 

[dawp]

I don't see how that qualifies it as MORE useless than a degree in elective studies.

to him, it's useless and you ask how anyone could get a useless degree.

and my understanding in that field is that to get anywhere in it, you need a masters, so a bachelors is useless.