What Was/Is Your Major?

Post by **marurun** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:00 pm

You be more concise or reconsider your topic? Papers are always the worst part of education, but unless you REALLY have it in you to be motivated and do stuff you're better off with it than without. Education is how you find work when you're not motivated (or warped) enough to become one of the "good ole' boys."

Post by **lordofduct** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:41 pm

marurun wrote:Education is how you find work when you're not motivated (or warped) enough to become one of the "good ole' boys."

That is the thing... education isn't going to find me any work. Education has yet to find me work. Don't get me wrong, I love to learn. I spend all my time reading up on topics and I go to class and listen closely to everything. And yet I haven't received any information that I did not already know. (With exception to Calc 3 and Differential Equations... I did learn a lot in those classes).

I had decided when I was younger that I had wanted to be a teacher. A profession which pays very little. Here I am now 23 (several funerals and the fact only I supported my self handicapped my progression through school) and I make and have more money then teaching will EVER give me. On top of that I am on the threshold of projects that will engage me for many years to come.

Don't forget I am 23 years old and already own my own house nearly half paid off, and school has done nothing in getting me that. School has only taken money from my wallet merely because I enjoyed to learn. College has turned into a hobby I no longer have the time for.

Post by **manasol** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:40 pm

Lord of duct I can somewhat agree with you there. I worked so that I can earn for college. I dislike my job but the point is I like to learn, like you, and since I had to support myself I have a job that pays pretty well for a single guy. I own a home but I really dislike it now, them more I live in it, lol.

For me though I am hoping to go finish my degree and learn some more about myself. I know of what it takes to put food on the table without school, but not without knowledge. I don't want to put out a view that school doesn't get you a good paying job and all that. It does but I think it's more about the person and what's in the ol' brain up there. Knowledge, wisdom, experience (which is knowledge,no?, lol ), desire, etc.

I think college for me is for my fulfillment not money since that stuff is rubish and had in many ways.

Post by **racketboy** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:05 pm

Well your major doesn't necessarily restrict your job opportunities.
A lot of times just having a degree is a good thing.

My boss's boss has a degree in Forestry (?), but he is the head of the Administrative Operations in my department of the company I work for (a major energy utility).

Post by **marurun** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:59 pm

And you know, part of it's that undergraduate degrees from most schools have become like a high school degree was a couple or 4 decades ago. A high school degree used to mean you could be taught to work most trades, and college was for the thinkin' types. Now it's different. Thanks to the downhill flow of education, college means you can think be taught, but you have to go to grad school to do anything specific unless you just have a lot of drive.

Besides, grad school can be a lot more focused, a lot more interesting. Take library science programs. Sure, it's a little lightweight compared to my undergraduate program, but I'm still learning a lot of stuff it'd take years to work through on the job. And sometimes to do what you want to do you just have to have the degree. I could work in a library and do 85% of what a librarian does without the degree, but if I want to be a librarian proper I have to have the degree. And money being less important to me than to some, that's what I want to do. The pay isn't great, but it's something I want. And the degree is how I get there. I've already proven to myself I can hold a job. Now it's time to prove I can do something I actually want to do.

Post by **philipofmacedon** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:59 pm

I graduated last May with a B.A. in History and a minor in Philosophy from Messiah College in sunny Grantham, PA. I enjoyed the things I learned although I haven't figured out what sort of career to pursue. I think the liberal arts are great but finding a good job can be challenging.

Post by **Abras** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:10 pm

philipofmacedon wrote:I graduated last May with a B.A. in History and a minor in Philosophy from Messiah College in sunny Grantham, PA. I enjoyed the things I learned although I haven't figured out what sort of career to pursue. I think the liberal arts are great but finding a good job can be challenging.

Tell me about... I'm almost done with my first year for my BS in Civil Engineering. I'm not really liking it though. I'm starting to dislike me science/math/engineering classes and favoring the liberal arts. The only problem w/ that is that I'd like to make some money :p

Post by **disorderlyvision** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:35 pm

i have my B.S. in psychology, and am currently working on my master's in education

Post by **Ack** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:31 pm

I earned my B.A. in English, with a History minor, and am currently in graduate school for a MLIS degree. MLIS folks don't get paid much, sure, but there's almost always a shortage of employees so I'll always have something to fall back on. Plus it looks pretty good if I then want to try for a Doctorate...

Post by **dsheinem** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 6:34 pm

I have a B.S. in Communication Studies and History, an M.A. in Communication and Rhetorical Studies, and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies.

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