The Worthlessness of Arts Degrees

[Roland]

Well, that was just the hypothesis that there might be no system.

"B.A. bachelor of arts (includes foreign language classes)
B.S. Bachelor of science (substitute computer languages or extra math and science clases for foreign language classes)"

So Bachelor ~ Matura.

I think what I meant earlier is better described as undergrad - grad ?

[rah]

My memory is foggy about those little details, but I think he had a BS too. (of course, he'll see this correct me)

RAH

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by LaRusso


you get an arts degree
you get out of uni
you get some additional training
you start bean counting

I am an accountant, but I definitely did not do an arts degree. Nor do I bean count.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by MrFun
I am well aware of the attitude of students who just want to "get through" their required history course. But there are also students who are not sure what they want to do as freshmen, and then they end up becoming history majors.

There are also students who start off as pre-med majors, realize that organic chemistry is a bunch of bollocks, and then change to history while trying to forget about the horrible career options. Then they try to warn others.

[Immortal Wombat]

Nor do I bean count.

Beans, lentils, same difference.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten


There are also students who start off as pre-med majors, realize that organic chemistry is a bunch of bollocks, and then change to history while trying to forget about the horrible career options. Then they try to warn others.

Yeah -- those unfaithful bastards.

Anyway, I give your troll a rating of 1/10.

[Dauphin]

I'm not a pulse farmer.

[Tingkai]

Re: The Worthlessness of Arts Degrees

Originally posted by Boddington's
Discuss.

Hey Boddie: Discuss this

[Drake Tungsten]

Only Eurocoms can rate trolls, Mr. Fun. Don't take away the only power they have left in the world.

[Dauphin]

I thought we were the trolls.

[Tiamat]

I have an Arts degree. Music was my major. I didn't want to teach music but do something else with my vocal abilities. So now I work as a secretary. Sometimes it depends on your specialization field where the Arts are concerned. For me if I wasn't going to teach music then I was limited to what I can do.

[Drake Tungsten]

You're the best trolls in the world; that's why you are the only ones allowed to rate them. An American troll can't hope to match the sheer audacity and arrogance that characterizes the best European trolls. You guys have made it into an art form.

[Immortal Wombat]

The only reason Euro trolls are better than American trolls is that Americans actually believe what they are saying, and thus find it harder to sit back and laugh at the ensuing chaos.

[*End Is Forever*]

Of course, the ironic thing is that, as an Economics undergraduate, Mr. Spink here is completing... an arts degree.

[Carver]

Originally posted by MrFun

I'm going for a BA in History, then later, go for a Phd in graduate school to work towards my goal of becoming an underpaid professor and teach undergrad students U.S. history.

Mr. Fun, I'm going back to grad school this fall to do a PhD in political science. I applied to the Univ of Iowa and was at their recruitment weekend in Iowa City back in March. That sure is a beautiful town, and cheap too. I decided to go somewhere else, but I think about U of Iowa often.

And things don't look too bad financially either. The average full professor at a private institution makes $98,606. I think, with book royalties and speaking fees on the side, that's a liveable income.