I have just about lost faith in the humanities...

[short bus president]

It's a waste of four years of education, I tell ya, to study the humanities. One-way ticket to boring-ass grad school hell, or real-world unemployment. But you DO get to smoke a lot of weed along the way...

:smoke:

[Feathered Fish]

1. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

Yep - it's gonna be grad school hell for me, I think. Now, where did I put my doobie?

[hoosierblue]

2. Ha!

Lol

:hippie:

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Somehow, I don't think all the business majors are making big bucks now,

and talk about boring! Business classes. . . :boring:

[Dora]

4. Sorry, I'd rather be resentful

I'd rather be the resentful humanities/fine arts grad that I am, than a resentful underemployed over-egoed business grad. I've worked in both business and law schools, and I've seen those students up close and personal. Nuh-uh, no way, not for me. There are always exceptions, but by and large those schools are churning out mercenary zombies.

I think resentment is nearly inevitable regardless of what the degree is these days. College isn't the E-ticket we were promised. It's taken me a few years to swallow that nut and resign myself to this life of low-level, low-challenge, low-pay jobs. I count my blessings every day that I have no grad school debt (fellowships all the way, baby), and that my undergraduate student loans came directly from the gov'ment, instead of a private financial institution.

I'm going to encourage our kid/s to pick a trade (mechanics, cooking, plumbing, medicine, dentistry, teaching, etc) and study up on that so they can earn a living, and then they can do all the useless study of the humanities they want. Even today, at 35, I consider going to cooking school.

Dora
B.A. English Language & Literature, 1996
M.F.A. Writing, 2000

[short bus president]

5. This "philosopher"

is seriously looking into the trades right now. And cooking, too. I have a sister in law school and a best friend getting his MBA. Not for me. Right now, "self-employed electrician" seems to me a cromulent way to earn a living and be able to enjoy some of my own life.

B.A. Philosophy/Health Care Ethics, 1996
with no further pay-for-it-type education as of now. ;-)

[Dora]

6. I think electrical is a good field to be in right now.

I don't know about other communities, but our city is on a big solar push right now, and they're offering rebates to homeowners who install solar panels. We'd do it, but we don't have the $ to cover what the city won't. Heck, we can't afford to bring in an electrician to do the electrical work that we really do need to have done. Anyhow, my point is that people seem to be seeking alternatives, and solar is making a comeback, which could bode well for you.

Health Care Ethics? Wow. I bet HMOs and malpractice insurers hate your kind. No wonder you're underemployed. Makes being a poet look downright mercenary. :+

[Menshevik]

7. in grad school hell right now

and scared as hell I won't ever get a job after I get my MSc!!!! Ahhhhhh!

[dean_dem]

8. That reminds me of a joke:

An Engineering major asks what makes it work?
A Science major asks how does it work?
A Philosophy major asks why does it work?
A Liberal Arts major asks, "would you like fries with that?"

Ah, I kid, I kid.