Posted on 01/21/2012 7:59:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I remember the geology majors in the 80s - oil bottomed out at about $9 a barrel - who couldn’t find a job ANYWHERE close to their area of study ... times change!
But I was a promised a good job too if I majored in Ethnic Studies!
But it also means Obama will be your boss. :/
“But I was a promised a good job too if I majored in Ethnic Studies!”
It’s good if you plan on making cupcakes for Occupiers.
McDonalds in the Bakken Shale area of ND and MT are paying $18/hr just to get someone to work. So there’s maybe hope there for English majors too.
She decided to major in History. Dumb idea. Really a tremendous waste of money.
However, after just a few months on campus she decided to change her major. She is now three years into the study of Third World Women's Literature, or some such crap.
BTW: I use this young lady as an object lesson for my kids. I’m very blunt. I say, “Study something practical, and I will pay for college. However, if I decide that you are not pursuing something practical, and I will stop paying. Choose wisely.”
She was probably listening to some libtard professors pompously sniffing that a liberal f@rts degree would broaden her mind and would be the big ticket to a wonderful career of her choosing.
Yea but if you don’t already live in ND then finding a place to live is harder than finding the job.
And you paid state tuition!
Yes, it's an Environmental Science school, but paper engineering involves cutting down trees— made the tree huggers mad at every turn!
Quick trivia: by size, I think ESF is the largest school in the country owning tons of acres in the Adirondacks and the Wanakena Ranger school at Cranberry Lake.
I posted this on another thread on a similar topic today. The story of the young lady who is in high demand as a petroleum engineer is contrasted with the post of another freeper who notes that years ago someone graduating with a degree in petroleum engineering could not get a job in his field because economic conditions were different. Sometimes kids pick one field to major in because market research at the time they’re freshmen indicates that that major will lead to a great job. Then conditions change.
The current crop of unemployed graduates may be unemployed because they studied history or Ethnic Women’s Literature, but they might just have signed up for something useful four or five years ago, only to see that the world changed abruptly when they were two or three years into a program. Four years ago it looked like a business degree would be valuable, but the Great Crash terminated that idea. In the last two years a lot of kids were told they could get jobs as medical coders, and they invested in coding courses, but now the field is overrun and they can’t get jobs.
So don’t be too hard on them; they’re not all Occupy morons.
LOL!
As a recent retiree from Devon Energy, I can tell you that newly minted petroleum engineering graduates are getting up to $100k per year and petroleum land management graduates up to $85k per year.
“Study something practical, and I will pay for college. However, if I decide that you are not pursuing something practical, and I will stop paying.”
I wish we could let you manage the Pell Grant program - that philosophy might make it almost worthwhile.
(Don’t call me a RINO. I said almost.)
My brother has a degree in Ocean Engineering from Texas A & M. He works at A & M doing all their computer stuff.
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