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re: What are the most useless college degrees?
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Anything DEI related is going to be expensive wall art.
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Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:29 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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In other words, the degrees that will never translate into a career that pays well.
Anything in the humanities or arts. If you want a degree in dance because you love it, that's fine. You're totally wasting your time in terms of making yourself valuable to society though.
This post was edited on 3/11/25 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:36 pm to DrrTiger
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That’s what he’s saying.
Wut? There are always posts lamenting how awful modern music is on the OT and every baw on the OT says to be an engineer or work a trade. lmao.
Conservatives have been historically hostile to art and music that pushes boundaries or is edgy.
Your screed about the DOE has literally nothing at all to do with my commentary.
Keep fighting ghosts tho.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Psychology
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:39 pm to Granola
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Sociology
If a Sociology major gets a job as a social worker, those people do a lot off stuff. Most work for the government in some form. Little money.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:50 pm to jclem11
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Wut? There are always posts lamenting how awful modern music is on the OT and every baw on the OT says to be an engineer or work a trade. lmao.
Because if you choose to work in music or art and you’re not at the very top of your profession, you’re going to struggle to pay your bills. I don’t begrudge someone for choosing to go into the arts. Just don’t rack up tons of student loans that you can’t ever realistically repay and expect a bail out.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Drama, dance, etc.
Tom cruise was just a bus boy. Dude didn’t get a degree in theater or acting.
This is what I was going for. Basically the artsy classes. Studio art, photography too.
You don’t need a degree to take wedding pictures.
Tom cruise was just a bus boy. Dude didn’t get a degree in theater or acting.
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Because if you choose to work in music or art and you’re not at the very top of your profession,
This is what I was going for. Basically the artsy classes. Studio art, photography too.
You don’t need a degree to take wedding pictures.
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Many degrees considered "useless" fall under the category of visual and performing arts, where finding a direct job with just a degree can be challenging
This post was edited on 3/11/25 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 3/11/25 at 12:59 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My nephew went to the university of Washington and got a marine biology degree. He can’t find a job with that.
A dude I worked with son got an art degree. He moved back home and couldn’t find a job. The dude said every time he walked past him sitting on the couch doing nothing he’d tell him to at least draw a damn picture……
A dude I worked with son got an art degree. He moved back home and couldn’t find a job. The dude said every time he walked past him sitting on the couch doing nothing he’d tell him to at least draw a damn picture……
Posted on 3/11/25 at 1:01 pm to Got Blaze
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Underwater Basketweaving
Y’all know that this is not now, and has never been, a thing, right? It started out as a tongue in cheek joke that grew extremely long legs
Posted on 3/11/25 at 1:03 pm to Joshjrn
It’s an idiom.
But it’s real now. This is at Rutgers.
But it’s real now. This is at Rutgers.
This post was edited on 3/11/25 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 3/11/25 at 1:05 pm to dgnx6
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It’s an idiom. But it’s real now.
It’s real now as a fun leisure class, just like I took Rifle and Pistol Marksmanship, and my friends took golf, while at LSU. Just like I didn’t get a degree in RaPM, no one is getting degrees in underwater basket weaving
Posted on 3/11/25 at 1:06 pm to Joshjrn
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It’s real now as a fun leisure class, just like I took Rifle and Pistol Marksmanship, and my friends took golf, while at LSU. Just like I didn’t get a degree in RaPM, no one is getting degrees in underwater basket weaving
Yeah I get that.
Like taking bowling.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 1:16 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It all depends on the market and the saturation of workers relevant to that degree.
If only 100 people in the entire US graduate with an Art History degree then it's probably not a worthless degree because I feel fairly confident assuming there are at least 100 good job openings in the Art History field every year (museum curation, publishing, teaching, etc) and those people are presumably doing "what they love".
But if 10,000 people get Art History degrees....yeah, it becomes toilet paper.
And a lot of these seemingly valuable STEM degrees are now competing with cheap outsourced labor and H1-Bs. There are 5 Billion people in Asia and some of the brightest among them see the big fat American pie as the ultimate prize.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:24 pm to jclem11
your last 2-3 posts are illogical. it’s not even worth my time responding. it’s complete nonsense and you contradicting logic and yourself in parallel.
if i had to boil down your rambling in this thread into a single coherent point (but also your overall schtick on the website). you hate conservatives.
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Conservatives don't push the envelope and make great music and art (as a broad general rule).
if i had to boil down your rambling in this thread into a single coherent point (but also your overall schtick on the website). you hate conservatives.
This post was edited on 3/11/25 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:27 pm to scott8811
quote:With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knees.
Philosophy... the literal only thing you can do with that is become a professor...of philosophy.
Posted on 3/11/25 at 2:45 pm to StansberryRules
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Anything in the humanities or arts. If you want a degree in dance because you love it, that's fine. You're totally wasting your time in terms of making yourself valuable to society though.
We have dance teachers, dance studio owners, dance choreographers, and dancers in various forms of entertainment (not just OT style). How are they not making themselves valuable to society?
They'll need some business-sense and to work hard at building their place, but they absolutely bring value to society. Probably more value to our sense of humanity than most shite out there.
Shitting on the critical humanities is one thing, but let's not continue down this path of destroying what makes us human just because it doesn't directly translate to corporate-level interests.
This post was edited on 3/11/25 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 3/12/25 at 10:49 am to SaintlyTiger88
Basically any degree
Posted on 3/12/25 at 10:53 am to terriblegreen
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Women's studies AA studies etc....
Yup. Anything with “studies” in the title.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 11:01 am to East Coast Band
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Most all of the ones that fall under the Arts.
When you look over these boards, it's clear that no one values learning their own native tongue. Too bad we don't value Language Arts more than we do.
What a great world it would be without all these stupid arts wasting our time, right?
I know a man who got a Masters of Fine Arts from LSU and translated it to a very profitable business. He's worth over a million today. I also know several people who were able to get jobs that required simply a college degree - any degree. I know a woman who used her degree in English to get a rather profitable IT job.
I've just never understood this whole judging of other peoples' degrees.
Posted on 3/12/25 at 11:52 am to lsuCJ5
You can make a great living with any degree if you put in the work. Mass comm graduate here and I never had any issue finding or keeping a job. I’ve spent my career working in high tech and make a very nice salary.
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