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NYC_Gal
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
What Job You�ll End Up With: You can read and comprehend, so that gives you an advantage over 99.5% of the people that PERSUE Craig�s list job listings. Therefore, you�ll most likely end up landing an entry level position at a random small company, or showing up to your interview and being raped repeatedly by a group of masked men.
Oh the irony.  |
Most people at least need some sort of internship that they did during uni or grad school for entry-level jobs. |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Less snark, more research, please. |
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| kermo wrote: |
My sister just finished her PhD in religion (at Duke!) and she's now a tenure-track professor. Huh.
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That is probably the best possible position anyone can get with said degree (money wise). My friend has a philosophy degree and even he admits that it is pretty much useless unless you are going to be a professor and teach the subject. |
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ThingsComeAround
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He forgot Computer Science.
the degree that demands youth and experience as a prerequisite  
My cousin has a degree in Philosophy. He now is the GM of an Apple store. Go figure |
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peppermint
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Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| I don't by into the idea that degrees are a sure path to a career, and I'm sort of surprised at the number of folks that do. Maybe it's true if you go into engineering or law or medicine, but all of the practical minded people I know that went into Education have a harder time finding work in their field than I do. |
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ReeseDog
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: Less snark, more research, please. |
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| kermo wrote: |
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| Even Duke University can�t put a solid sell on this degree: �A major in religion offers intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.� |
My sister just finished her PhD in religion (at Duke!) and she's now a tenure-track professor. Huh.
The majority of students are enrolled in this program because they're aspiring pastors. A little theology would definitely come in handy in that line of work. |
Your sister is a class-1 bullsh!tter. Make no mistake about that. |
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ReeseDog
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Question: What's better than being a landscaper, plumber, or (for chrissakes) a poseur?
Answer: Getting that degree. |
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Easter Clark
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joeleitz
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I don't by into the idea that degrees are a sure path to a career, and I'm sort of surprised at the number of folks that do. Maybe it's true if you go into engineering or law or medicine, but all of the practical minded people I know that went into Education have a harder time finding work in their field than I do. |
Practical can be overrated can't it? I know someone that has a degree in Fine Arts but ended up with a great job working for an SEO company. I would never have guessed that her Fine Arts degree would lead to that sort of work and the company didn't even require a background check. Go figure.
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recessiontime
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that was before the recession raped us. |
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Louis VI
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| When I was in college there was a study done that showed philosophy was the most frequent major of Fortune-500 CEOs. What wasn't mentioned was the class issue: children of the rich and powerful are more likely to take that degreee than some trade like medicine, law or teaching, after all, they don't need to work for a living. A theory. |
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PatrickBateman
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I think you guys were missing my point(see: capital letters)
Well, one person got it.
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brento1138
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I know a guy who was an English major and now works as a TV show director.
I wouldn't have thought they were related... he never even went to film school or anything. He just wanted the job, got interviewed, worked his way up, and then hired for directing. Interesting! I guess people usually think English major = teacher. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:19 am Post subject: Re: Less snark, more research, please. |
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| kermo wrote: |
Re: a religion degree
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| Even Duke University can�t put a solid sell on this degree: �A major in religion offers intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.� |
My sister just finished her PhD in religion (at Duke!) and she's now a tenure-track professor. Huh.
The majority of students are enrolled in this program because they're aspiring pastors. A little theology would definitely come in handy in that line of work. |
Your sister is a class-1 bullsh!tter. Make no mistake about that. |
Classy.
I agree with Pepp. Degrees don't mean anything without skills and connections.
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| That is probably the best possible position anyone can get with said degree (money wise). My friend has a philosophy degree and even he admits that it is pretty much useless unless you are going to be a professor and teach the subject. |
Academia or actual pastoral work, which is what most people who go to Duke are looking for. The article misses this entirely, but it's easy to make mistakes when you're not reading carefully, just looking to score a cheap point. |
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laguna
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| maryjanes wrote: |
| No degree is useless, it just depends on what you do with it (and with the time you were at Uni). |
Nothing in this world is worthless, but some things are worth more than others, statistically, if not financially. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: Re: Less snark, more research, please. |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Degrees don't mean anything without skills and connections. |
...Connections definitely being the most important of all.
Most real talent in this world is wasted. The modern workplace (and society) is essentially structured as a mafia-network of relations and friends.
I get tired of finding out that so-and-so actress is in fact a daughter of "X" famous actor, or "X" CEO is, coincidentally, a son of "XX" former CEO. And all of them gushing in interviews that their connections played no role in their success. |
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