College Majors - For all of you out there!

[Steve.Young]

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/06/05/the-10-most-worthless-college-majors/

Read and be...completely amazed at how close he gets to some to being dead on, and how off he is on a few (I feel communications is a viable major =p).

[Barnes]

Nice to know History isn't on that list. XD
I wonder if there are more worthless majors.

[Tony]

Neat, but not too useful. It's not what you know; it's who you know and where you go.

Besides, you don't go to college to learn; you go to learn how to learn.

[Kaura117]

http://www.bspcn.com/2008/06/05/the-10-most-worthless-college-majors/

Read and be...completely amazed at how close he gets to some to being dead on, and how off he is on a few (I feel communications is a viable major =p).

Nothing new for half of it, absolute rubbish the rest. Try getting into any of the real media jobs without some background in communications. Try getting into Hollywood without a background in film. Try getting into a managerial position without having taken a course in ethics.

Latin is useless, though. Can't argue that.

[Steve.Young]

Neat, but not too useful. It's not what you know; it's who you know and where you go.

Besides, you don't go to college to learn; you go to learn how to learn.

It's true, more often than not you can be trained for a job. As long as you have a degree that says "Hey, look I know how to learn".

I use to work with a guy who was an art history major who became an executive account manager at a large multi-million dollar OEM computer distribution channel company.

It's not even so much as who you know, as it is "Who can you use to your advantage to succeed". Cause you forget people fast once you move up heh.

[JTchinoy]

i really thought business would be on there.  looks like i'm safe.

[Nyxyin]

It's true, more often than not you can be trained for a job.

More often than not, college doesn't teach you what you need to know to actually get real work done (unless you're getting advanced degrees).

As long as you have a degree that says "Hey, look I know how to learn".

More cynically, a degree also tends to say, "I got X hours of busywork completed in Y years to get this piece of paper."  Majors that require more work tend to be more valuable because they show an employer how much the graduate can get done.  The piece of paper also says "I stuck it out for Z years."  Employers don't want people who will leave at the first sign of a better opportunity.

I use to work with a guy who was an art history major who became an executive account manager at a large multi-million dollar OEM computer distribution channel company.

I know a communications major actually doing communications work and is making six digits doing it.  She bought her own place in the Bay Area too.  We were both employed right out of college for similar salaries.  So far, her communications degree hasn't been worth any less than my CS degree.

It's not even so much as who you know, as it is "Who can you use to your advantage to succeed". Cause you forget people fast once you move up heh.

Then you're taking the slow, hard, and inefficient way up.  The fastest and easiest way up is to team up with people you can trust so you each only do a fraction of the work.  Also, industries tend to get very small at the top.  Unless you just don't plan to rise that high, forgetting someone earlier might result in more difficulties when it's even more competitive.

[Glitch]

Doesn't look like an article I would take too seriously.

[Raydere]

Thank goodness Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Software Enginnering aren't on there, even though I expected it to be (what, with the whole outsourcing-jobs-to-other-countries thing oging on).

[astroboy]

Neat, but not too useful. It's not what you know; it's who you know and where you go.

Actually it's not who you know...........it's who knows you.   ;)

[ThatBlueDinosaurGuy]

Administration of Justice, gonna be working towards being a cop.