Posted on 01/12/2016 7:23:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Not a myth entirely - I know two of them, both with business degrees, both small business owners. Their staff/co-baristas are the usual mix of millennials, but the folks who have to make payroll need every break they can get.
One weekend I was picked up by a truck driver who said he had a bachelors degree in physics. It caused me to wonder if I was making the right choice of major subject.
However, things did work out. I had a good career in the Air Force doing R&D, and after that a career as an engineer at a research institute.
Getting a meaningful degree is the real key to employment.
I have never quite embraced the whole “I’ll worry about rent when it comes due” philosophy. Both my wife and I agreed early on. No one gets bailed out. Ever. Especially not our children who have grown up as spectators to this behavior. So the one destitute sibling is giving money to the other destitute sibling so rent gets paid. Just like my mother did.
I know a bunch of people on SS disability who will lose their free money if they ever have to reapply because this time THEY will have to pay the lawyer rather than the state pay them. I can’t imagine living on that razor’s edge.
I was riding with my sibling when we saw a panhandler on the corner with a sign. My sibling remarked “he looks cold and miserable on that corner. Give him some money”. I replied “Why would I want to pay him to stand on a corner, cold and miserable? That’s cruel”.
A liberal arts degree USED to mean that you were qualified to be a management trainee, or go into sales or marketing.
Liberal arts trained you to read complex material with understanding, analyze with logic, write clearly and persuasively, and argue your opinions clearly. All are skills that somebody who is primarily dealing and negotiating with people could use.
No more.
A liberal arts degree these days primarily means that you sat through classes where ideologues spewed nonsense at you, which you were supposed to regurgitate at exam time. THAT is why employers are increasingly disinterested.
If Laz were a CEO he’d hire her for a position under him.
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