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re: Liberal Arts Majors: Did your college courses prepare you for your jobs?
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:28 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:28 pm to CapitalCityDevil
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Liberal Arts Majors: Did your college courses prepare you for your jobs?
Sure.
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Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:30 pm to CapitalCityDevil
English major. Only prepared me for customer service jobs. But just wait till I finish the great American novel. 
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:32 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Yes. It made me a better person. Education in the humanities is demonized by pretty much everyone but my undergrad and grad course work helped me in ways I could never elaborate.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:33 pm to Hot Carl
quote:In this glitter age of novels? Good luck sir. Even if you managed to write something good, it wouldn't be studied and the only people who would read it would be fat neckbeards wearing fedoras.
But just wait till I finish the great American novel.
I assume you like good literature, take David Foster Wallace for example. Brilliant writer, yet basically unstudied.
So again I say: Good Luck.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:35 pm to CapitalCityDevil
He wasn't being serious. He's just some simpleton from N.LA.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:36 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Mass Comm major at LSU. Very prepared by classes but also like any job had learning to do once hired. And I work for an international telecommunications company in Media Relations, not Starbucks
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:36 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Absolutely.
I work in Media Relations and I write as ~70% of my job. I get paid to have perfect grammar and use the correct writing style.
ETA: Spent my first year or so as a Mass Comm - Print Journalism major.
Switched to English - Literature, and that is what I graduated in.
I am glad I started in Mass Comm since my current job requires AP Style and I'd have never known it otherwise.
I work in Media Relations and I write as ~70% of my job. I get paid to have perfect grammar and use the correct writing style.
ETA: Spent my first year or so as a Mass Comm - Print Journalism major.
Switched to English - Literature, and that is what I graduated in.
I am glad I started in Mass Comm since my current job requires AP Style and I'd have never known it otherwise.
This post was edited on 3/9/15 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:37 pm to mattz1122
I figured, but I thought I'd give a serious answer because I actually do enjoy fat neckbeard writing 
I think everyone should write. It is honestly one of the greatest self-enhancing exercises for the mind.
I think everyone should write. It is honestly one of the greatest self-enhancing exercises for the mind.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:38 pm to Tiger JED
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I work for an international telecommunications company in Media Relations
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:39 pm to CapitalCityDevil
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Even if you managed to write something good, it wouldn't be studied and the only people who would read it would be fat neckbeards wearing fedoras.
I take it you've never seen the inside of an English department.
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I assume you like good literature, take David Foster Wallace for example. Brilliant writer, yet basically unstudied.
That's fairly untrue too. Of contemporary authors, he's probably the one who is written most about, along with various others.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:40 pm to LouisianaLady
quote:I'd love to climb into a jet and fly straight into your crescent city.
LouisianaLady
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:41 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Uh. Okay weirdo.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:42 pm to LouisianaLady
if it makes you feel better, i think i saw you in person one time irl and didn't say hi
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:42 pm to theunknownknight
they still be look for dem jabs
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:43 pm to CapitalCityDevil
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I assume you like good literature, take David Foster Wallace for example. Brilliant writer, yet basically unstudied.
DFW is widely read in contemporary lit classes, survey classes, and even intro classes. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:43 pm to SlowFlowPro
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if it makes you feel better, i think i saw you in person one time irl and didn't say hi
I thought you loved me.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:44 pm to LouisianaLady
frankly my dear, i don't give a damn
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:45 pm to LouisianaLady
Do you look like a small contemplative boy IRL? Is that you in your avi??
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:46 pm to SlowFlowPro
Not really, but I used the degree to get in Professional school, and its a nice stepping stone for that....
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:47 pm to crazy4lsu
quote:Sorry if fat neckbeards is a confusing term. Think of it like a "lightyear". On the outside it looks like a unit of time, but it is actually a unit of distance. "Fat neckbeard" describes a state of being, not the actual looks of the individual. It is an internet thing, I figured it made it here by now.
crazy4lsu
And it is very true, our colleges have barely begun to teach DFW's work even though it is some of the most complex writing of the 20th-21st century.
This post was edited on 3/9/15 at 9:50 pm
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