I know a guy who has a doctorate in philosophy who is a top stock analyst for a brokerage house.
I myself studied Latin and Greek, and ended up in IT as a C++ programmer.
I know a guy who has a doctorate in philosophy who is a top stock analyst for a brokerage house.
I myself studied Latin and Greek, and ended up in IT as a C++ programmer.
Then I would ask how you and others get such good jobs which have nothing to do with your college education fields of study. Did you work your way up in these fields, after starting at the bottom? Did your college experiences do anything to assist you in the professional careers in which you found success??
I copped the elusive BA in Journalism and went on to be a coal salesman.
Graduated with a degree in philosophy 35 years ago.
Never eaten at the public trough. Never unemployed involuntarily.
Will retire comfortably prior to being able to collect any SS.
It’s not the degree, it’s what you do with it that matters.
My degree was in French lit. Worked as a programmer all my career...did very well with it.
“I myself studied Latin and Greek, and ended up in IT as a C++ programmer.”
I am kind of in the same boat and while CS degrees focus mostly on math, I have found that the Latin I took in school was much more beneficial in understanding syntax and remembering the syntax in various programming languages than math in CS. ;-)
Sure, the math is required but I had the aptitude for math. However, had I not had the Latin and a general interest in languages then programming would have been out of the question.