“Here’s to you, Journalista Grads,
Starbucks has a place for you.....
Well that is fitting as for the most part journalists top the list of the most useless people.
I have a BA in history.
So far, I’ve had three careers...and NONE of them required a college degree to qualify, nor for advancement.
A college only proves only two things: That you are eudcable and really like beer.
How mechanical engineering and chemistry made that list, I have no clue. Agriculture to a degree, as well.
Sociology? Gender studies?
I was frankly a little surprised by the median starting salaries in some of those fields.
#8 Mechanical Engineering Technology
Only 15,112 degrees issued 2008-2009
Job openings down 1.45%
Predicted job loss 2008-2018: -700
#9 Chemistry
Only 22.466 degrees issued 2008-2009
Job openings up 2,100
Predicted job increase 2008-2018 2.48%
So, what has lowering our educational standards, and importing H-1B Visa’s done to our future? We have sabotaged our future. We can easily live without Journalists and others - but who is going to engineer future devices? Who is going to use their Chemistry degrees to advance medicine, refineries, plastics, composites, mining and energy needs?
Oh yeah, we’ll just import more foreign technical workers - and further de-stablize the technology workforce. It’s cheaper to hire an H-1B engineer than a native american (no Social Security taxes alone is good for ~$20,000 per engineer).
As an engineer who has faced more than one layoff, plant shutdown and outsourcing - the fact that our politicians are creating policies that ENCOURAGE businesses to export my job, and then import foreign nationals to compete against me for my job (with tax advantages) certainly does not encourage me to recommend young people to consider a career in engineering.
#8 is chemistry.
Only if you stop at the Associates or Bachelors level. A PhD in Chemistry is still a desirable degree.
That there is no market for programs that have for decades turned out predominently Walter Duranty and Jason Blair types who do a poor job and the market has collapsed?
Too bad.Cheer up MumbleBumbler, you can still extole the supposed virtues of the New York Times over that of Shelly the knitte's blog whenever someone posts a knitting story or some such.
We won't kick you when your down.
Very much.
Okay, we will. Having you carp about sources not being the legacy press on every thread however obscure gets real damned old, and your ridicule is well deserved and fully earned.
The old guard is going away. Pine over it to yourself - I not only won't miss it, I aim to keep helping to kill it.
That list is rather goofy. No way are those ten more useless than Sociology, or Library Science or Psychology just for starters. Or the field I love, History, for that matter. Chemistry useless?
What do you call a Journalism grad?
Waiter.
I think this is partly because journalism and communications are the two preferred “degrees” of people whose primary goal in college is to play sports and/or drink themselves into a stupor and want to do the minimum level of schooling required.
Those two degrees represented 80%+ of the football team at my school.
since the 1960’s journalism has been ensconced in
so-called “j schools”.
these are separate colleges in universities which set their own requirements—no difficult courses.
no calculus, no physics, no chemistry, no latin, no greek, no history, law, etc.
yet these j grads feel qualified to comment upon all of these fields.
Coincidence - University of Colorado, Boulder, just closed their Journalism School, they told students that they could still take courses in subjects pertaining to journalism but they no longer offer a degree in it. A waste of time and money is more the reason I suppose. Let the students find another way to indoctrinate themselves in communism.
The "degree" itself is useless to the extent that nobody in the industry really gives a sh*t if you have the degree or not. It's more about getting the right internships and proving you can do the job. Or knowing someone who can give you an in.
One of the main problems I saw in the industry, at least in my day, was that starting salaries for reporters were dogsh*t. Absolute, utter dogsh*t. That meant the only people who could afford those jobs were the trust funder types who received outside support from parents, relatives, etc. If you had to work for a living, you didn't stay in the job for long because you couldn't make ends meet. Hell, my editor worked nights selling jeans at a mall.
Now, consider the type of people who want to be journalists and can afford to be journalists, and you can begin to understand why the old guard media heavily skews liberal.
My degree wasn't worthless, though. (1) It gave me an opportunity to hone my craft as a writer, and (2) I was able to make a pretty good career in non-journalism thanks to that.