Future relevance of business degrees?

[94steve]

The world's always going to need managers, accountants, finance people, and other assorted pencil pushers barring any kind of end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenerio (US defaulting on a bond, thermonuclear war, etc.).

I ditto the comment on technological type degrees facing a greater threat from change. Imagine if you earned an AAS in lithography, offset printing, typewriter repair, etc. 20 or 30 years ago. I mean times are always changing but the closer you are to being a professional (doctor, lawyer, military officer, professor, mba, etc) the more insulated you are from technological change and the business cycle.

Now while this seems paradoxal as medicine, academia, the law, business, etc. are extremely face paced and changing, you never see these people on the breadline. Perhaps this is because they dictate the change, or maybe because the professions are allegedly occupied by our best and brightest but their incomes, standard of living, social status, and unemployment rate are always more favorable than the rest of society at large.

THE MORAL OF THE STORY: Ditch the blue collar working class hero shtick, test out of undergrad, attend professional school, reap the benifits.