Replies

I don’t usually talk to graduates of the University of Minnesota Sociology Department, but when I do I say, “I’ll take fries with that.”

Many of the IT guys I worked with had social science degrees. I had assistant head of computing who had a PhD in Psychology, co-workers with degrees in sociology, humanities and English. Good friends of mine who graduated from the same liberal arts college (philosophy, French) are now successful programmers and IT salesmen. In my last position, the fellow two levels up didn't even GO to college (he was IT department director at a regional bank). A couple of my friends left college early (psychology and theology) and are now programmers (one is with Microsoft, another is with a well known pro-life organization). My own degree is in political science.

There is NOTHING wrong with a good political science degree, and there is nothing wrong with thing of college as more (or different) than "job training".

Just joking around. I have a friend who is head of a Sociology Department and he laments to me that all his undergraduate students want to do is CSI, because they watch the show. I asked him how many PhD students he had and he said...none.

If you’re not doing research, the undergrads are probably better off getting good job experience than spending 150k on a degree - unless its a great, well rounded, college. Just my 2 cents.

There is NOTHING wrong with a good political science degree,

Sigh. Beverly Scott, PhD, degreed in political science was the head of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Well it snowed like hell the winter of 2014-2015 in Boston. Under Scott's erudite leadership the Fu'kn trains stopped running for a month. She didn't know how to manage snow removal operations. They should have had someone with engineering skills managing this authority, not a professional political hack.

Beverly Scott