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re: Is There Anything You Can Do With An English Degree Besides Teach?
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:05 am to OweO
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:05 am to OweO
You get your masters, and then you get your PhD in English.
THEN you bitch about your student loans and how you can't find a job.
Then you move back in with your parents and prepare to go back to school for something else worthless and do it all over again.
THEN you bitch about your student loans and how you can't find a job.
Then you move back in with your parents and prepare to go back to school for something else worthless and do it all over again.
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Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:06 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
quote:Do you think Oweo has an English degree? Have you seen the grammar, punctuation, and syntax in his posts?
Go get a law degree.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:06 am to glassman
I am a lawyer who majored in Government. I routinely regret, and did especially at the beginning of my career, not majoring in English.
I tell everyone who wants to go to law school, after my dissuasion does not work (lol), to major in English.
I tell everyone who wants to go to law school, after my dissuasion does not work (lol), to major in English.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:08 am to tigergirl10
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Do you think Oweo has an English degree? Have you seen the grammar, punctuation, and syntax in his posts?
It's horrible. Sometimes I wonder (really, I hope) whether he's doing it intentionally.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:10 am to bad93ex
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Do these same people use the line "The book was so much better!" during any mention of a movie?
fricking always!
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:11 am to OweO
With an english degree you can do anything. I don't get the question? What you study between 18 and 22 years old does not limit your life options.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:12 am to glassman
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No one needs an English degree.
Society does.
As they need Math degrees, Philosophy degrees, Chemistry degrees, etc.
There are some degrees we don't need, or degrees where we got WAY too specific, but in terms of what we need, we probably at least need the following: English/Rhetoric, History, Math, Science, Philosophy, General Art. Then the aforementioned Medical and Law.
Engineering falls under math or science.
What we don't need are something like Business degrees. That's a totally pointless college endeavor. The best marketing folks I know all have English or general Arts degrees, and the best business minds all have finance or economic degrees(should just have Math degrees).
The Business degree wasn't even a real college degree until 1974/post-Vietnam. It was a trade school degree, but the push to offload corporate training started then and businesses FORCED the degree on colleges to get funding, then Business schools took over an elevated stature. Business degrees are a red flag for me when I hire. There's little critical value in a degree like that. Much like gender studies. Just get a philosophy degree.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:14 am to Mo Jeaux
I'm pretty sure this thread is a passive aggressive attempt to attack formal English.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:17 am to Giantkiller
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You get your masters, and then you get your PhD in English.
THEN you bitch about your student loans and how you can't find a job.
Then you move back in with your parents and prepare to go back to school for something else worthless and do it all over again.
Or realize that a skillset is a skillset, independent of a need to follow a particular path and go find something you enjoy doing that pushes your limits, but uses your talents and skills. And make money, and happiness, that way.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:17 am to OweO
Politics.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:18 am to Gaston
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I have a friend who is a radiologist, he graduated in English Lit.
I'd imagine there had to be some sort of training program, or trade degree needed to become a radiologist. Doubt he just graduated with a English lit degree and just hopped in a radiology job, right?
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:19 am to Freauxzen
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What we don't need are something like Business degrees.
I read a few years ago, although I can't speak to the stats specifically, that there has been a rise in CEO's/ Chief Officers in general, of larger companies having law degrees (J.D. and/or LLM) as opposed to business school masters degrees. I guess if true that could be in response to the ever surmounting regulations and what not governing the commercial sector. Interesting nonetheless.
This post was edited on 12/3/20 at 11:20 am
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:20 am to Roberteaux
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I'd imagine there had to be some sort of training program, or trade degree needed to become a radiologist. Doubt he just graduated with a English lit degree and just hopped in a radiology job, right?
Nope, all you have to do is apply and pass the competency test then, POOF! Radiology job!
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:21 am to Freauxzen
I was just responding to his absurd question of NEEDING an English degree for a particular job. I'm with you, I'm a history major. 
This post was edited on 12/3/20 at 11:22 am
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:25 am to BorrisMart
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I read a few years ago, although I can't speak to the stats specifically, that there has been a rise in CEO's/ Chief Officers in general, of larger companies having law degrees (J.D. and/or LLM) as opposed to business school masters degrees. I guess if true that could be in response to the ever surmounting regulations and what not governing the commercial sector. Interesting nonetheless.
Law and Engineering were the two fastest growing from what I saw recently.
Business degrees are falling at the top levels. Like I said, this thread should be about Business degrees. That's the most glamorous, highly regarded degree that is absolutely worthless. The only reason they get jobs at a high rate is because Business degrees are just job training. It is the de facto degree to make sure someone is just barely competent in knowing how "to work."
A business degree says "Hey, I've already gone through job orientation, so just hire me!"
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:25 am to Freauxzen
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The Business degree wasn't even a real college degree until 1974/post-Vietnam.
The first Business school in the US started almost 140 years ago. I'd need to do some research, but I'm guessing Commerce degrees preceded them a few years.
Clearly there's some fluff in most business degrees. When you look at the logistics and OR aspects of what some programs require, you can thank their graduates for brining you goods and services that allow you to live like you do.
Not a business major, just an engineer.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:27 am to ohieaux
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The first Business school in the US started almost 140 years ago. I'd need to do some research, but I'm guessing Commerce degrees preceded them a few years.
Right but business schools weren't "Universities," or colleges engaged in critical thinking.
It was vocational training.
I'll be more specific, "The business degree was not a valued University-level college degree until post-Vietnam."
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:34 am to OweO
My very liberal SIL has an ba in English from LSU and a masters in English from NC State and she’s jobless living in Seattle off my BILs income. So there’s that
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:35 am to Freauxzen
General Studies Degree holder here. - worthless. I was just trying to graduate as soon as I could due to my own personal circumstances. I was one of those HS kids brought up during the “you gotta go to college” movement. That’s probably still being told. I mean, I’m glad I went. I just wish I would have majored in something different.
I went and got my MBA after a couple of years later after working a job I hated.
I think all non-specialized degrees are pretty useless in regards to people’s career paths. I got my Bachelors thinking about being a teacher. I’ve told my kids to try and get something specialized such as accounting, engineering, etc. I also told them about learning a trade.
The career I have now is one that you could have majored in anything. I do pretty well for myself and make a pretty good living considering what the vast majority of people make in this state.
I went and got my MBA after a couple of years later after working a job I hated.
I think all non-specialized degrees are pretty useless in regards to people’s career paths. I got my Bachelors thinking about being a teacher. I’ve told my kids to try and get something specialized such as accounting, engineering, etc. I also told them about learning a trade.
The career I have now is one that you could have majored in anything. I do pretty well for myself and make a pretty good living considering what the vast majority of people make in this state.
Posted on 12/3/20 at 11:47 am to OweO
Weirdly enough, I've met a few people in finance/consulting with English or History degrees. They were all Ivy League though
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