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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
I never understood that to be honest. If you major in a stem subject, you have a good chance to get a job in your field. If you are a commerce major you have a chance of getting a job in business.
What can you do if you end up a feminist studies major?
Hell, playing for your school's baseball team probably gives you a better chance of turning pro.
Now its true, many jobs have little to do with formal training. Employers in those fields want a degree to "judge character". But lets be honest here, a science degree shows that you are probably smart and have good logic and reasoning skills. An engineering degree shows that you are smart and was trained in design and innovation. A music degree shows that you at least have the capability to perform memorized works in front of an audience. Playing on your school's sports team means that you are fit and understands teamwork.
But some degrees like sexual diversity studies? That just tells people you spent a few years "exploring your body".
In fact, in China and Japan, the most popular arts major is languages and cultures. English, French, Japanese, Spanish, majors are very popular in China and the employment prospects are reasonably good.
However, these degrees are utterly useless in North America. If I need something translated into Spanish, I'll just find a Hispanic American, a native speaker. If I need an expert on Japanese culture, I'll just go find a Japanese immigrant. Your foreign language degree and your cultures degree is completely and utterly useless.
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I agree it all depends on what your major is.If you major in a useful field or an in demand field an engineer for example you run a pretty good chance of finding a job in engineering in the US.Now you might not get the best job but you'll get a job.
One of my cousins owns a business insurance firm down in Ft.Lauderdale ,FL.His half sister who will be complementing high school very soon got interested in that industry helping my cousin.
He told her that the best job in the insurance industry the most in demand one is Risk Management (adjuster) this type job has been used by insurance companies for some time but until the past 10 or 15 years they where hiring people that had a degree more specif towards finances and less so in the specifics of the insurance industry.Now a few schools have curriculum focusing specifically on Risk Management for Insurance.
Of course my cousin he majored in communications at the University of Alabama which is kind of fitting because his job is more in sales though that was not what he had planned on doing.Still the education helped him I have no doubt of this.
I forget the exact statistic but I think the typical college graduate earns about one million dollars more in a career span than a person that does not have a college degree will earn in the US.
Now pretty much all of these liberal arts degrees are useless.But most of those people are trust fund kids anyway.