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The top 10 most-regretted college majors — and the degrees graduates wish they had pursued instead
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Posted on 11/12/2022 5:37:14 AM PST by FarCenter

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To: Grampa Dave

Most nurses are union.

I worked in hospitals for a few years. I never met many happy nurses. They were slightly less tedious than teachers.


101 posted on 11/12/2022 8:26:17 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: FarCenter

One of my favorite classes college was a course called Daily Life in Ancient Rome. It was one of those courses other warn you about not taking. Syllabus included 12 different text books including Plutarch. After telling students the Saturnalus was one ofcthe first pornographic book in Western Civilization most of the class read it. Had great fun with the course. As one of the projects the professor made me editor of a newspaper using events from the time period


102 posted on 11/12/2022 8:27:18 AM PST by mware
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To: Vermont Lt

My RN wife refused to join any Union, so she did real RN work for 5 decades.


103 posted on 11/12/2022 8:37:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
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To: Gen.Blather

>I don’t know what I was thinking when I chose history.

I’ve encountered two historians which made the switch to engineering management and have done well. The exception rather than the rule.


104 posted on 11/12/2022 8:40:55 AM PST by fretzer
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To: FarCenter
Regardless of the major, one needs at least a minor in Finance and a minor in Abnormal Psychology in order to navigate the world we live in.

Ignore them at your peril.

Of course you need Reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic and understanding up-to-date software to Read, 'rite, and perform calculations.

105 posted on 11/12/2022 8:42:52 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: FarCenter

Journalism = Libtard Propaganda


106 posted on 11/12/2022 8:43:02 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Grampa Dave

Don’t get me wrong, I know a lot of nice RN’s…out of the hospital. At work, ugh. Lol.


107 posted on 11/12/2022 8:46:03 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Romulus

Before the 1971 Griggs v Duke Power decision,

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/

Companies could give IQ and aptitude tests to high school graduates and put them to work, and employees could study materials relevant to their careers either in the library or take night classes.

But the Supremes ruled that any test which blacks did worse than whites did was presumed discriminatory under the “disparate impact rule.


108 posted on 11/12/2022 9:04:45 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: bert

Macdonalds provides valuable lessons to young people:

Showing up for work is good.

Arriving on time is better.

You are being paid to work, not chat.

Cursing out your manager is bad. Punching him out is worse.

You would be surprised at how many young people need to learn these points.


109 posted on 11/12/2022 9:09:37 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

And “Never Kill A Customer”


110 posted on 11/12/2022 9:11:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: P.O.E.

I now understand girls: they want to make their own decisions, but still have Daddy be required to fix their bad decisions.


111 posted on 11/12/2022 9:12:16 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: nutmeg

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112 posted on 11/12/2022 9:13:14 AM PST by nutmeg (Biden / Fetterman 2024 -- It's a no-brainer)
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To: FarCenter
The joke always goes like this:

I tried pre-med and it was too hard

So I tried engineering and it was too hard

So I tried accounting and it was too hard

So I tried history studies and it was too hard

So I tried general studies and it was too hard

So I tried education and finally got a BS.

113 posted on 11/12/2022 9:52:50 AM PST by pfflier
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To: FarCenter

Me = Geology and Pharmacy

A lot of Chem, Math, Physics, bio sciences etc. is what you studied. All subjects anyone with average intelligence can master but it is a lot of studying. You are rewarded with a high paying job.


114 posted on 11/12/2022 10:07:33 AM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

sadly, there’s a huge demand for those majors in diversity and HR offices on campuses and corporations across the country.


115 posted on 11/12/2022 10:24:50 AM PST by millenial4freedom (The Democrat Party thinks men can menstruate! How can it possibly be right about everything else?)
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To: antidemoncrat
because there's value in fighting that evil partiarchy...

just ask this PhD student:


116 posted on 11/12/2022 10:32:06 AM PST by millenial4freedom (The Democrat Party thinks men can menstruate! How can it possibly be right about everything else?)
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To: FarCenter

I completed my Masters in Cyber Security at the end of October. Future is looking bright and no regrets.


117 posted on 11/12/2022 10:39:34 AM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: SuperLuminal

To some degree that depends where you live.

Here and today that could be somewhere between 15 and 20 cents.

We are close enough to Canada that their coins show up regularly. It seems every handful of change has at least one. When I was a kid we hated getting ripped off when someone gave us Canadian coins because some stores were very cautious to refuse them. We thought it was a big deal to trick a cashier into taking them.


118 posted on 11/12/2022 10:43:58 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Leaning Right

I remember when my daughter was finishing her BS she had a social science elective that she left until her senior year. So, she took a freshman psychology course; the prof in that constantly lied about all the great opportunity and high paying jobs there were in psychology. The department chair would come in during class time and twist freshmen\women arms to sign up for it as a major.


119 posted on 11/12/2022 10:50:10 AM PST by Reily
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To: FarCenter

I see no Russian-language majors. That was the big trend when I was in college.

Also Child Study. Also Art.


120 posted on 11/12/2022 11:01:16 AM PST by firebrand
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