Is there some reason that you are excerpting?
I’m taking credited graphic arts courses and hoping to follow my sister into advertizing or I may return to printing.
Psychology has been a useless, unmarketable degree for more than a decade. A major problem with higher education today is the failure to adjust degrees that are marketable in the contemporary world. If you want marketable degrees, look to the hard sciences, engineering, computer sciences, and mathematics and the like or just give them your money for useless trash degrees like pysch, diversity, multiculuralism, lesbian, homo, and women’s studies.
They will NEVER offshore Plumbing.
Brilliant! I'm sure the welfare system will need to hire a lot of psychs to work with the crazy folks streaming over the border. There are so many already here, she's set for life, even if they ever get around to controlling the border. If I were the dad, I would demand a cut of the profits.
A sensible parent would have evaluated that before she ever went to college -- and especially before agreeing to foot the bill.
A lot of the people going to college shouldn’t be there. The academy is more than happy to prostitute itself, offering meaningless nonsense degree programs so they can suck in their $200K from the parents of each so-called student.
dan, your daughter would make a good plumber.
say, when’s the last time you saw a woman plumber?
Most wealthy people in this country (and everywhere else) didnt get rich working for someone else- but by being entrepreneurs. I think its funny someone should even imply the poor job market for “executives” is the reason their Spanish-speaking Psychology major kid won’t recoup a $160,000 investment in a year!
I would do that now. Welding/pipefitting is excellent for the oilfields, as is heavy duty mechanic. Serious income, serious work.
My own two daughters went the college route. One is in computers and doing very well in a position that can not be off shored. Cost about $50 for 5 years. She had a full scholarship. The other is in nursing school. Expensive ($30k/yr), but she will make what her sister makes once she finishes her BSN. Their education is the most important investment I as a parent make.
I would still not advise conservatives to entirely abandon academia. For example, it is libs in the American Psychiatric Assn. who will declare child molestation to be “normal”, just as they did for buggery over 20 years ago. That laid the groundwork for a whole panoply of legal decisions that will eventually give us homosexual marriage. The same kinds of things will be done after pedifilia is normalized by APA pervs.
It’s funny how the real world will eventually allocate talent and resources where necessary, despite what we, our schools, our Gov’t, etc... want to do. Much of college now is becoming high priced propoganda down-load.
in her double major of Psychology and Spanish ( 3.95 GPA) it's just that I'm trying to figure out what she does in a year or so to get that back or to even leverage on it in the world that she will find herself.. listen stooopid... those are the questions you're supposed to ask BEFORE you pay for college.
read the book, College Without Compromise... there are lots of more inexepensive ways to earn a college degree... i am hoping that my sons do what my friend’s daughter did... she earned her AA (two years of college) while earning her high school diploma... she is 17 and graduating from a junior college in May and graduating from high school in June... she will begin attending a univesity right out of high school as a junior...
Once upon a time that may have been the case. But today, students are force-fed leftist and socialist garbage, with freedom of speech stifled if it strays from the party line.
Or his daughter might take the course that the link in his blog goes to; Strategicoach. 3 year course, 4 one day meetings per year, $4500.00 to $7500.00 per year.
If nothing else she could learn all the right “buzz” word and phrases and that has to be worth something.
With the crime rate on the rise I strongly recommend the Judge School!