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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: TheWriterTX
Very impressive. I stand corrected...and in awe of all you have done.
Great job!!!
To: FarCenter
What an interesting chart. I started college in 1965 as a pre-med major, due mostly to the pre-programming of family members who fed this to me as the road to success. I made the mistake of dating my chem lab partner and we both almost flunked out. I asked a fraternity brother what I could major in where there were a lot of nice-looking girls and no requirement for a foreign language. He said “Check out the School of Journalism” I did, and asked a professor this question: which career path in journalism offers the best compensation?” He replied without hesitation: “The advertising sequence”. I enjoyed a highly successful career in advertising, was paid quite well for my work, and would do it all over again given the chance. One other thing I learned: don’t believe everything you read in the “news”. We knew it for what it was: propaganda.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:30:31 AM PST
by
jimbug
To: linMcHlp
Tony Spiva at the University of Tennessee had one axiom that was all what was needed to pass his economics and the entire course was summed up with this, “there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
To: FarCenter
Learning basic math would help. I was at a chicken fast food restaurant and the total came to $7.95. So I gave the young woman $8.20 in order to get rid of some small change and expecting to get back a quarter and she kept staring at the money and at me and then called her supervisor who finally gave me the quarter.
To: FarCenter
Chances are that many started in the Least-regretted, couldn't hack it, and ended up in the Most-regretted college majors.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:33:06 AM PST
by
Mr.Unique
(My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
To: Night Hides Not
When the CEO polled us about a potential move to QB Online, the vote was unanimously AGAINST it.
I would not trust my company's accounting to SaaS (Software as a Service). Upgrades/updates are mandated even when unwanted, and moving off the platform is usually excruciatingly difficult, even when pricing goes haywire.
When my small company that I ran IT for was in bankruptcy, and forced downsizing, I knew that accounting would be spared. I joked that they would be the last ones out of the building, and I would have been right had the company not been bought by another with its own accountants.
Accounting, like Electrical Engineering, is a great discipline to master, and I have always heard that the CPA certification is among the most rigorous. You chose well, and wise, prudent women are drawn to accountants once they figure out how the world works a bit.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:38:47 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
To: George J. Jetso
I was good at math until they quit using numbers and took to using the alphabet.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:40:22 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
To: FarCenter
3 decades ago one our sons was graduated from a good state college with an engineering degree.
The country was going through rough economic times, and the company he had worked summers and weekends went bankrupt just before his graduation.
So we made out a new resume, bought him a suit/tie for inter
viewing. 2 weeks later he had an even better job offer than the one from the failed company.
One of our church ladies a teacher asked him, how he got a job when other college grads couldn’t get an interview.
He told her, he had a real degree in engineering not an IUD, Instant Unemployment Degree. She is still mad about his reality label IUD, Instant Unemployment Degree.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:44:43 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
Lern2Code. Some might not be happy with it, but you can dry your tears with paper money. Lots of it.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:52:13 AM PST
by
StAnDeliver
(Tanned, rested, and ready.)
To: TheWriterTX
To: Restless
Journalism degree prepared me too sell coal and then later, bunker fuel.
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posted on
11/12/2022 7:57:11 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
To: FarCenter
Of graduates who regretted their major, most said that, if they could go back, they would now choose computer science or business administration instead.But they picked the majors they did because they didn't like or couldn't do math.
So this wishful thinking looks like wishful thinking on their part.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:00:02 AM PST
by
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To: Bruce Kurtz
The “studies” majors are for minority women who plan on a career in HR.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:03:46 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
To: bert
Thanks, your same good MD logic applies to starting jobs with Walmart.
They offer free online college courses to their full time workers.
My wife worked as the lead RN in a local Family Practice group and retired a decade ago. The full time Walmart employees had one of the best health plans in this area.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:03:47 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
To: FarCenter
Journalism, sociology, communications and education all topped the list of most-regretted college majors... All major's encouraged by WOKE culture...
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:10:58 AM PST
by
GOPJ
( Networks need camera crews in black communities too. Watch turnout and comments. Harlem? Chicago? )
To: Mr Ramsbotham
In California, you need a cash register with a calculator to figure out the sales tax in your area!
California City and County Sales and Use Tax
Rateshttps://www.cdtfa.ca.gov › taxes-and-fees › rates
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Location Rate County:
Acampo 7.750% San Joaquin
Acton 9.500% Los Angeles
Adelaida 7.250% San Luis Obispo
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:13:40 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
To: FarCenter
Regretted BAs are why there is Law School and Business Schools.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:15:02 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
To: FlingWingFlyer
African studies. ROTFL! Not everybody in Africa was really a King or Queen. That’s only in those wacky Disney Movies for Dummies. To qualify as a "king" you need subjects. At least 10,000. Less than that, you are just a village chief.
The kings were the ones selling their more useless subjects to the slavers.
It makes more sense to sell your shiftless and criminals to slavers. At least then you get some revenue.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:16:32 AM PST
by
SauronOfMordor
(The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
To: Vermont Lt
“Now, writing for high level hospital administrators….that’s a good gig!”
Or a young single RN, who works PM shifts as a lead RN in ICU’s or ER’s. A real RN and is not an over educated old maid or a political hack.
If any administrator, who tries to jerk around an employee like this RN example, the other RNs would kill the he/she/it adm thug.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:22:36 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
To: certrtwngnut
We used to joke about scholarship athletes taking basket weaving but at least they learned something sorta useful.
Basket weaving and coaching at a good private high school.
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posted on
11/12/2022 8:25:26 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Vote Republican! They might not be perfect, but the other side is insane!)
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