Posted on 11/12/2022 5:37:14 AM PST by FarCenter
Even with college application season in full swing, many families are questioning whether a four-year degree is still worth it.
Some experts say the value of a bachelor’s degree is fading and more emphasis should be directed toward career training. A growing number of companies, including many in tech, are also dropping degree requirements for many middle-skill and even higher-skill roles.
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Still, 44% of all job seekers with college degrees regret their field of study.
Journalism, sociology, communications and education all topped the list of most-regretted college majors, according to ZipRecruiter’s survey of more than 1,500 college graduates who were looking for a job.
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Of graduates who regretted their major, most said that, if they could go back, they would now choose computer science or business administration instead.
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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.
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
My RN wife refused to join any Union, so she did real RN work for 5 decades.
>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.
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.
Journalism = Libtard Propaganda
Don’t get me wrong, I know a lot of nice RN’s…out of the hospital. At work, ugh. Lol.
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.
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.
And “Never Kill A Customer”
I now understand girls: they want to make their own decisions, but still have Daddy be required to fix their bad decisions.
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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.
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.
sadly, there’s a huge demand for those majors in diversity and HR offices on campuses and corporations across the country.
I completed my Masters in Cyber Security at the end of October. Future is looking bright and no regrets.
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.
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.
I see no Russian-language majors. That was the big trend when I was in college.
Also Child Study. Also Art.
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