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Most regretted and least regretted college majors

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  • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

    I’m also a little surprised by how many are happy with their Computer & Information Sciences degrees. My understanding of the field is that many of the skills do not require a 4 year degree and by the time you graduate the skills you learned are 6 months away from being obsolete…

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    @LuFins-Dad said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

    I’m also a little surprised by how many are happy with their Computer & Information Sciences degrees. My understanding of the field is that many of the skills do not require a 4 year degree and by the time you graduate the skills you learned are 6 months away from being obsolete…

    Where I work, the knowledge of the code base and the problem domain, which one learns on the job, quickly makes established employees more valuable than new employees. The established ones can be paid to learn new technologies if need be. Funny thing is, most of the training is in procedural stuff like six sigma or scrum or agile, rather than technologies.

    Education is extremely important.

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    • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

      I am absolutely NOT surprised that Human Resource Services are happy with their fields of study… Unfortunately.

      Same with psychology…

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      @LuFins-Dad I haven’t used calculus in anger since I graduated. Or Bernoulli’s equation. Or any of it.

      We use ohm’s law quite a bit.

      Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

      I was only joking

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        @LuFins-Dad I haven’t used calculus in anger since I graduated. Or Bernoulli’s equation. Or any of it.

        We use ohm’s law quite a bit.

        Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

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        @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

        Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

        Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with MBAs that my ideas are theirs precisely because they don't know what they're doing when it comes to the area I work in.

        Please love yourself.

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          @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

          Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

          Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with MBAs that my ideas are theirs precisely because they don't know what they're doing when it comes to the area I work in.

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          @Aqua-Letifer said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

          @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

          Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

          Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with MBAs that my ideas are theirs precisely because they don't know what they're doing when it comes to the area I work in.

          I refuse to speak to people with MBA’s. I’m happy to be condescending to people with doctorates but I draw the line at MBA’s

          I was only joking

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            @Aqua-Letifer said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

            Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

            Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with MBAs that my ideas are theirs precisely because they don't know what they're doing when it comes to the area I work in.

            I refuse to speak to people with MBA’s. I’m happy to be condescending to people with doctorates but I draw the line at MBA’s

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            @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

            @Aqua-Letifer said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

            @Doctor-Phibes said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:

            Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with PhD’s that they don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to the area I work in.

            Probably the biggest challenge in my job is persuading customers with MBAs that my ideas are theirs precisely because they don't know what they're doing when it comes to the area I work in.

            I refuse to speak to people with MBA’s. I’m happy to be condescending to people with doctorates but I draw the line at MBA’s

            Nah c'mon, they're fun. They don't know when you're poking fun at them so you get to kick the can down the road some more.

            Please love yourself.

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