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To: JCBreckenridge
Ooh, a history degree. Now there is a field ripe with opportunity. Plenty of burger flippers with those liberal arts type degrees. Great career planning.

Oh, I forgot the Gen-x/y/x mantra: Like dude, math is too hard man............How do you think your employment prospects would be with a science degree?

OTOH, have not seen such a good whine fest from a noob in a long time.

190 posted on 05/12/2012 2:52:42 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

I just received a B.S. in Economics (graduated with Honors from one of the best statistics/math schools in the country) and have taken Calc, Diff Eq, Linear Algebra, Econometrics, Statistics, etc. and I am also having extreme trouble finding a job.

I may be going back and obtaining a Masters in Econ with a Master’s Minor in Stats along with classes such as Real Analysis, some more Diff Eq, etc.

The economy is rough for everyone not just the Liberal Arts people (Even though they have it much worse)


206 posted on 05/12/2012 4:43:41 PM PDT by Black_Shark
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To: doorgunner69

“How do you think your employment prospects would be with a science degree?”

I have 60 science credits in my degree, physics, math and chemistry. Did calculus I and calculus II, linear algebra, differential equations, partial derivatives.

I have been published in a national newspaper for my statistical analysis in collaboration with another reporter. Do a fair amount of data entry and stats work with demographics.

I find that demography has significant overlap with my history degree, as it’s all about going through public health records and researching them through the years and then combining all the data together and analysing them.

How much math do you have? :)


277 posted on 05/13/2012 12:52:08 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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