Don't let college professors advise you on .....

Career academics are the worst

I’m not sure how a lot of this younger generation is gonna survive. I’m currently taking a business market analysis class and one of the assignments we were given was to identify a real world problem that can be discussed in class. The next phase of the assignment involves developing a business concept focused on solving these problems. I swear to god someone submitted as their problem, pouring liquid from one container to another, and how it was difficult to accomplish this without spilling a drop. It took everything I had not to yell “it’s called a funnel”!! I mean how in the frick have you made it to this level of college and you have zero clue that funnels exist?

It was "tough and go" with my daughter for awhile. All you can do is try and prepare them for the real world. Her freshman year of college she was playing softball but also found time to give private hitting lessons. Then, she voted in her first Presidential election and voted for Trump. (Pardon me while I shed a proud tear).

After that she went out and got a part time job during the holidays. I never dreamed she was listening to me. Glad to say I was wrong.

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It was "tough and go" with my daughter for awhile.

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Touch and go, just fyi

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my liberal tenured professor aunt

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So brave. So proud.

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Career academics are the worst

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Right behind career politicians

We’re not all raging liberals, and a lot of us in engineering and the hard sciences actually have prior industry experience or got in to teaching because of research opportunities, not because we can’t hold down a “real job.”

I'm currently getting an accounting degree and almost every professor I have had has
decades of experience in the real world. I had a management professor who was helping Pepsi merge(idk if this is the right word) with a bunch of distributorships and bottlers in Florida(while teaching our course) and a global business professor who "ranks as the 10th most prolific international management scholar in the world."

I didn't like him or his class, as it was too abstract for me. And I have no clue about the validity of this ranking shite. But this mfer has been everywhere and had tons of "real world" advice.

And the management professor has goddamn seen it all and couldn't have had more real world experience if she tried. She had Florida senate members come talk to us. Representatives from Pepsi would come talk to us. This professor was GREAT.

Now, I've certainly taken classes with professors who don't know a damn thing about the real world. But they're easy to spot. I'd just get in, do my work, and gtfo.

This is the global business professor. He was a clown, but it was a very useful course.

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I think that's the problem with

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millennials

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the generation driving innovation?

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We’re not all raging liberals, and a lot of us in engineering and the hard sciences actually have prior industry experience or got in to teaching because of research opportunities, not because we can’t hold down a “real job.”

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Yeah I rage a little inside at these threads because I feel the hard science professors get lumped in unfairly.