Most regretted and least regretted college majors
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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…
@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.
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I am absolutely NOT surprised that Human Resource Services are happy with their fields of study… Unfortunately.
Same with psychology…
@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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@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.
@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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@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.
@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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@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
@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.
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Classic liberal arts education here.
Over 80 hours science courses, 16 hours math & physics, but ...Fortunate enough to have 12 hours English & Literature, 12 hours theology and basic philosophy, along with a smattering of other odds and ends.
A good bit of those non-STEM courses are what makes adaptable adults. And many of them were core curriculum classes. I think core curriculum classes should be mandatory at any university.
@Jolly said in Most regretted and least regretted college majors:
Classic liberal arts education here.
Over 80 hours science courses, 16 hours math & physics, but ...Fortunate enough to have 12 hours English & Literature, 12 hours theology and basic philosophy, along with a smattering of other odds and ends.
A good bit of those non-STEM courses are what makes adaptable adults. And many of them were core curriculum classes. I think core curriculum classes should be mandatory at any university.
In a powerful act of protest, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey recently gathered for a sombre mock funeral outside their college of humanities and social sciences. Carrying flowers, they stood before a tombstone inscribed with the names of 15 departments, including English, history, and sociology, symbolising what they see as the death of these disciplines at the hands of university administrators.
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At its core, the conflict reveals a fundamental disagreement about the purpose of a university education. On one side, increasingly corporatised administrations favour market-driven metrics, enrolment figures, and job-placement rates. On the other, defenders of the humanities argue their value to critical thought, ethical reasoning, and democratic society cannot be quantified.
"The humanities simply don't fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way," explained Adam Rzepka, an English professor at Montclair State.
