Some degree’s are not worth having.
Last summer I had a door-knocker from NYPIRG babbling on about how bad fracking was. It was rather amusing. After taking him apart on fracking, I informed him that a few years earlier that I had some pretty 20-nothing from NYPIRG babbling on about mercury from burning coal.
When cornered about the energy inputs on solar panels ( i.e. the energy to mine, and refine rare earths to usable purity to make those solar panels work) he babbled on how he didn’t have a science degree. I asked him what he did have a degree in. He responded with “BA in Near Eastern Studies” form NYU. I asked him what sort of work he thought he could find with such a credential. He lamented that he could not find anything beyond waiter/barista.
I then queried what possessed him to want to enter a degree program where there was no meaningful opportunities for employment after graduation? He responded that his parents told him he could be anything he wanted to be. To which I replied, yes that is true but in order to live he needed to provide some value to his fellow citizens that they would in fact be willing to PAY for.
He complained of the high debt that he had, and I told him that he should have gone into engineering, mathematics, computer science, or accounting where he could provide value to someone that they would actually be willing to him pay for.
I said to him Near Eastern Studies was a nice hobby, not a career.
I enjoy particle physics, and spent several years working in that field at Cornell University. The problem with it was that it didn’t pay very well and left it for a major corporation which used what I learned to develop products that people would actually pay for and remunerate me appropriately.
I told him he needed to take the coexist bumper sticker off his car, and get with the program. Being a liberal is the life of a loser and he should head for the military to learn how to be an adult with meaningful skills.
Did he listen to you? Him being a liberal I doubt it though
With regard to your post 20, do you think that your friend had the intellectual competency to handle a curriculum in engineering, mathematics, computer science, or accounting?
So many Freepers assume that anyone can do whatever they want to do. It’s rather like the old joke, “If I had the mind to, I could write like Shakespeare.”
Wow! He must have left your house with some issues to contemplate. Good job. Sometimes, tough love helps.