> Ph.D. in medieval history
That’s all you need to know right there.
Unless she plans on going to work at the Midevial Manor, she is quite limited in job options..
Plus, that useless degree pays close to nothing. A Starbucks barista makes close to that amount she claimed. It gives me a tingle up the leg knowing not only my taxes supports these useless liberals but lazy bums as well.
Universities take advantage of the PHd’s and candidates. They are cheap and plentiful and turn a good profit for the schools. There are just too many for any but the best connected to get good academic jobs. The govt helps fuel the glut by granting easy access to loans.
We have first hand experience with this. Our son finished his Phd a year ago..and worked the last year between two schools teaching..poverty wages that he filled in with another consulting job at an NGO to make a bare minimum to survive. In the meantime applying for those illusive Prof’s jobs in the humanities.
He also looked outside academia and was willing to move ANYWHERE. He landed an excellent job outside his field with a good company that recognized his writing and other skills demonstrated by his PHd. It didn’t hurt that he had acquired accounting skills in a part time job. He is now earning far more than a tenured Prof in the humanities at all but the biggest schools.
He recognized that he pursued a dream and not a realistic goal for supporting a family and earning a decent wage.
There are too many liberal arts degrees and too few business and technical degrees.
That’s all you need to know right there.
she could supplement her income with that degree by offering online courses to high school students--homeschooled high school students... she could charge $600 a head, never even have to leave her home while doing it... my son takes classes like this online... my homeschooling mom friend began offering online writing courses and always has students with parents willing to pay... $550-$600 is standard...
That’s all you need to know right there.
Indeed. Add this ...
"I'm grateful for government assistance. Without it, my family and I would certainly be homeless and destitute," he says. "But living on the dole is excruciatingly embarrassing and a constant reminder that I must have done something terribly wrong along the way to deserve this fate."
Uh, yeah. What you did that was terribly wrong is you majored in something completely useless.
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You're absolutely right. God knows that we as a society gain absolutely nothing by studying our own history beyond "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue..." and "One if by land, two if by sea..."
Really, who needs to know more than that about the history of our culture and civilization...especially when there are careers to be had in pharmaceutical sales?