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To: Lorianne

I’m guessing these are mostly liberal arts majors.


3 posted on 05/30/2016 9:22:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I will relate two stories here.

1. I had to go into a small town airport in 2011, and ended up late at night with the rental car manager (the staff had gone home for the night). She had to complete some paperwork and we chatted for ten minutes. The thing is...she was young (maybe 23) and the manager. I noted that in the past....it was older guys who managed these offices and she noted that she’d just finished college the year before. This was the only job she could latch onto....that paid something decent ($28,000 a year). I didn’t say much after that, but it just struck me as odd...this was always a older guy with a high school diploma who managed these shops before. And now? We are hustling some 23-year-old into the job, with zero chance of promotion or better pay?

2. In the early 80’s, I ended up in military intelligence as a profession (enlisted). What I noticed after five years of being around....there were a lot of officers and the ratio was roughly 1 officer to every 2 enlisted. I noted by the late 80s (I had my bachelors degree by that point)....that a fair number of NCOs (between the 6th and 15th year)....had a minimum of associate degrees and something like eighty-percent had a bachelor’s degree done by the 20th year. The profession had the most educated enlisted people around....yet still pumped a high rate of officers into the field when it wasn’t necessary. The impression I got was that in the 1960s...this all made perfect sense. But with the money pumped into education funds...they had a highly educated manpower force, but no idea of how to use it.

I think the general public has become the same way....all these people around with a vast amount of education, and just no idea by leadership or management on how to make good use of it.


36 posted on 05/30/2016 9:55:23 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: BenLurkin

Mostly LIBERAL Arts..
Yep, a dad I know went to his son’s graduation at MSU and wondered how all those non-salable degrees were going to be paid for.


80 posted on 05/30/2016 12:21:43 PM PDT by bog trotter
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To: BenLurkin
I’m guessing these are mostly liberal arts majors.

Nowadays, probably. I'm an old fart who got his liberal arts bachelor's degree back when it actually meant something: we studied Latin, Mathematics, Science (Physics, Biology - e.g., hard sciences), Philosophy, History, Social Studies (real Social Studies, like Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology), and four years of a Foreign Language. Those were required BEFORE you even considered your major.

Our Liberal Arts degree (BA) taught us how to THINK, COMMUNICATE, and WRITE. Something sorely lacking in today's curriculum, I'd wager.

As far as I can remember, we didn't have things like majors in lesbian feminist poetry.

95 posted on 05/30/2016 3:16:01 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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