Posted on 07/26/2013 10:40:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
How hard it is too major in English? When its you’re fist language. Arts and cratfts magors is pointless.
That's too bad. Without the passion that stirs the soul with great writing, it's easy to overlook the riches of a liberal arts education. When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, he noted that Apple's DNA was not made up of technology alone. "It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing," he said. Jobs was not alone in recognizing that the high-tech employers seek innovators who employ imagination, metaphor and storytelling, all growing from the rediscovery of great works of literature.
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Are you pulling our leg, lol?
Ditt here. Documentation, training, and communicating with the end user.
err...ditto! DOH!
That’s where I come in. heh
A very senior Oracle consultant once said about his new assignment:
“They have all sorts of different systems running here. And as near as I can tell, absolutely none of it is documented. All of the documentation is in the head of an employee named Sri. And, as near as I can tell, if Sri goes out for lunch and gets hit by a bus, this company goes out of business fifteen minutes later.”
“If all you want is a skill, why go to college?”
Football games on Saturday afternoons, beer, keggars, college chicks, college chicks and parties, friends from different places with different viewpoints, intramural sports, some liberal arts knowledge to go with useful skills and knowledge, a four year degree to qualify you for grad school in something that will make you employable for a reasonable income. Proper sentence structure is purely optional. :)
What you really want are people with a double major in Math and English. You want people who can write about something they actually understand.
On a more serious note than my previous post, one reason the humanities are in trouble is because they are overrun with Marxists. History and English departments mostly offer lots of courses on the Marxist-Feminist view of this, that, or the other thing. Genuine scholarship takes a back seat to Political Correctness. I’m very glad that I came through a department that wasn’t like that (over 20 years ago).
People with both skill-sets are not very common. A rounded education once helped it along, but that’s no longer the norm.
Me toooooooo! Loved being an English major, reading books and writing book reports was a blast!
My group did the same. Users rarely had to call to ask how to make something work... it was all covered. We usually only heard something if a bug in the code popped up.
those that don’t know history are condemned to repeat it; we need more of you
Yes... that’s the same MO here.
I was a composition major. I spent more time writing than reading.
Just an observation :)
"You can lead an engineer to documentation, but you can't make him read it!" classic..
To be certain, we don't like to write stuff down. And reading docs is for wimps. "Hell, no, I didn't read it! Let's fire this baby up, and see what happens!!!!" :-)
However, I'd argue that it's hard to find an English major (recent grad) who can keep up with Engineers. They're certainly better than anything with "Studies" in it, because I'd assume that an English Major at least would be able to read and write English. "Studies" majors? Not so much.
So, if you're technical enough to hang with the geeks, and literate enough to communicate well....you're one of a rare breed, indeed. :-)
“It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing,”
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