re: Would you want your son to major in a liberal arts degree?

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Unless you want to be a fricking plumber the rest of your life.

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Plumbers aren’t doing too bad right now.

I have a BA. Could do whatever it is that I please. The world is enriched by my presence.

Clearly, your ignorance is showing. Fear not, I also was at one time, ignorant. I have a BA and MBA, my dad is an engineer and my mother a CPA. After getting my MBA I was quite the snob, feeling better than the hard working layman. But any plumber, welder, carpenter, whatever -- that is smart enough and hard working enough,,,, can have fantastic lives. Pretty good money and great freedom of life.

Engineers sit in cubicles paying off student loans, and without total control of their future. Plumbers create their own business and answer only to themselves. Who is really winning here?


Every fricking plumber in the world will make more money and have way more flexibility in life, then the proud owner of a liberal arts degree.

PS. I am not a plumber, do not know any plumbers personally, but without question....

I would prefer my son to become a plumber, then go to college for a liberal arts degree..

Zero question. Of course, the boy is a chip off the old block and is a verified, legit genius. There is no way he would ever even think about liberal arts hahahahah!