04-15-2011, 07:35 PM
All the people claiming they never see a job posting with "Liberal Arts degree required" -- there are plenty of jobs that state "Bachelors degree required". Any field. So, bam, you just qualified for a bunch more jobs by having a degree.
Is it better to get an engineering degree? A medical degree? Duh. Insightful.
A large portion of the business world has undergrad in liberal arts majors (which include things like poli sci, history, English, communications). A liberal arts major is no less rigorous than being a poli sci major.
Make some friends & connections in the business world and flip through LinkedIn sometime. You folks acting like Liberal Arts degrees are worthless have no clue what you're talking about.
That said, ryoder and burbuja are obviously right when they point out that you need more than just a piece of paper to get a job. That's always the case, including for mathematicians and engineers and financial analysts and actuaries and nurses.
And it is also the case that a retail job can easily become a corporate job. Seen it happy at least twice in less than two years per person. By people with "worthless" liberal arts degrees.
(And I'm not being defensive, as I don't have a liberal arts degree. I'm like Brother #1, tech work and certs and lots of money.)
Is it better to get an engineering degree? A medical degree? Duh. Insightful.
A large portion of the business world has undergrad in liberal arts majors (which include things like poli sci, history, English, communications). A liberal arts major is no less rigorous than being a poli sci major.
Make some friends & connections in the business world and flip through LinkedIn sometime. You folks acting like Liberal Arts degrees are worthless have no clue what you're talking about.
That said, ryoder and burbuja are obviously right when they point out that you need more than just a piece of paper to get a job. That's always the case, including for mathematicians and engineers and financial analysts and actuaries and nurses.
And it is also the case that a retail job can easily become a corporate job. Seen it happy at least twice in less than two years per person. By people with "worthless" liberal arts degrees.
(And I'm not being defensive, as I don't have a liberal arts degree. I'm like Brother #1, tech work and certs and lots of money.)
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65 credits in 3 weeks from A&I Lit 79; College Comp w/ Essay 63; College Math 75; College Algebra 76; Precalculus 63; Intro Psychology 78; Intro Sociology 62; Intro Computing 473; Personal Finance 451; Health 467; Management Info Sys 466; MCITP Enterprise Admin; MCITP Server Admin; MCITP Virtualization Admin; MCITP Enterprise Messaging Admin; MCITP SQL Server DBA
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