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GeismarGeauxer 
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| 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 6:33 pm)
Why do these people always call into Dave Ramsey's show with $200,000 of student loan debt and no job?
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siliconvalleytiger
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 6:35 pm to GeismarGeauxer)
Some of these are a good way to get to law school. Journalism for example.
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Quidam65
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 6:54 pm to GeismarGeauxer)
Architecture made the list? There must be a glut of some sort.
Hospitality Management I can see with the tough economy but should things turn around the demand may pick up.
The others are probably useless good economy or bad.
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Teddy Ruxpin
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Some of these are a good way to get to law school. Journalism for example.
You're undergraduate degree literally does not matter outside perhaps engineering. The reason engineering matters is to explain your shitty GPA.
Law schools only care about the LSAT 80% of the time and GPA next.
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kfizzle85
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 6:58 pm to Quidam65)
I know a bunch of people that did architecture. Seemed like they worked super hard at school, all smart as well, but I think the nature of the industry just makes it difficult to find a job since its traditionally a pretty unconcentrated industry.
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Quidam65
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 6:59 pm to kfizzle85)
Thanks kfizzle85!
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Teddy Ruxpin
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 7:02 pm to Quidam65)
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The others are probably useless good economy or bad.
A lot of those majors turn into academic positions at best and I don't see colleges expanding and hiring like crazy.
ETA: I saw a movie or something that made fun of the English literature student who graduates, then takes his professor's job when he retires, and continues the cycle. 
So at any point there are only 4 of these tards running around in the department.
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aaronb023
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 7:05 pm to Teddy Ruxpin)
you heard florida cut their computer science curriculum? lets see, which degree is in high demand in the 21st century?
a. liberal arts
b. history
c. computer science
d. english
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siliconvalleytiger
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 7:07 pm to Teddy Ruxpin)
They either turn into teaching professions or the kids go into a field completely unrelated to their majors. In most fresh out of college jobs they teach you everything from scratch so it doesn't matter. Take audit for example. Technically it is an accounting/finance field but they take people from every major.
Key is you have to be lucky enough to get hired in the first place. That's the hard part with most of these majors. Fine arts majors don't get many interview calls from corporate America.
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Teddy Ruxpin
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Key is you have to be lucky enough to get hired in the first place. That's the hard part with most of these majors. Fine arts majors don't get many interview calls from corporate America.
I wonder why. I certainly wouldn't want to hire someone for an accounting job that just wasted 100,000 dollars of their parent's hard earned money.
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GoCrazyAuburn 
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 9:00 pm to GeismarGeauxer)
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Why do these people always call into Dwve Ramsey's show with $200,000 of student loan debt and no job?
because that's who he tailors his show to.
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udtiger
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 9:27 pm to GeismarGeauxer)
#12 makes me sad. Failure to pursue knowledge in this field makes one a slave to those who present "the" history (as they have no basis of knowledge to question/verify).
However, it's also true, and has been for a damned long time.
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lsu711
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 10:59 pm to kfizzle85)
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I know a bunch of people that did architecture. Seemed like they worked super hard at school, all smart as well, but I think the nature of the industry just makes it difficult to find a job since its traditionally a pretty unconcentrated industry.
I finished in architecture. I don't regret the education, but it isn't a great career path. The ceiling for a successful architect is less than a quarter of what it is for other professional services industries, much less non-services industries.
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TheHiddenFlask 
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/23/12 at 11:11 pm to udtiger)
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#12 makes me sad. Failure to pursue knowledge in this field makes one a slave to those who present "the" history (as they have no basis of knowledge to question/verify).
I love history, but college history classes were nothing short of a survey of liberal revisionism. Even if you disagree with that, 3-4 history classes are still required for general ed purposes.
As far as being a "good degree to get into grad school", I think those are generally piss poor degrees for grad school, other than an easy route to a high GPA. The business grads that went to law school have a much higher success rate than poli sci/history/etc. as they have an extra set of useful skills, as opposed to a journalism undergraduate who knows how to write and has a law degree.
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Tigah in the ATL
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/24/12 at 12:30 am to GeismarGeauxer)
well not all you geniuses can cut it in engineering.
But I wonder what the Mechanical Engineering unemployment is. When you include the people that graduate with a 2.1 GPA.
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lynxcat 
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They should have just said insert liberal arts degree here .
I think it is all about finding a strong skill you learn as well as a wholesome liberal arts background.
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baytiger 
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/24/12 at 2:24 am to lynxcat)
There's something to be said for learning for learning's sake, so I can still respect a history/philosophy major.
however, it's just stupid to borrow a pile of money to do it.
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yellowfin 
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Take audit for example. Technically it is an accounting/finance field but they take people from every major.
I've never met a financial auditor without an accounting/finance degree
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LSURussian
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/24/12 at 8:13 am to GeismarGeauxer)
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13 most useless majors
Major Frank Burns???
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| re: 13 most useless majors (Posted on 4/24/12 at 8:32 am to LSURussian)
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Major Frank Burns???
boo! and I was about to give you some praise on the poliboard for the false profit comment...
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