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I know a lot of hippy geology/env. sciences majors that got into the industry to save the world.
Now they are working at consulting firms "interpreting" env. standards for their big oil clients.
Oh the irony.
I'm sort of a tree-hugger type of person, but slowly starting not to care.... I do ride my bike to work most days.
I got a BS in geology. Mostly as a "science of scenery" interest. I did quite a bit of real, original field research as a student. I am now working in a field related to oil/gas (doing GIS work for a cultural resources consulting company - archaeology). If I got offered bigger money to do geology or GIS for a big oil comapny I might be tempted. My current job is pleasant and easy, but does not pay a lot (I have no student loans. STEM degree = big scholarships).
I knew a hippie guy who was a chemist. Really smart guy, long hair, always wore a braid. He always reminded me of Kyle Petty.
I know a true 60's hippie who is a Nuclear Engineer, he has also taught at Colorado School of Mines. I've also know many "long hairs" as Physicists, and IT dudes..generally very smart people who avoid the "suits" at all cost.
I wouldn't consider ethnomusicology as a hippy major. It attracks the tweed-wearing bow-tie type more than hippies or music majors who play some type of nonwestern instrument. There's not much you can do with it outside of academia, but it is not an easy major.
I remember when schools started developing Women's Studies and Black Studies programs and departments. Obviviously, a product of the 1960s movements.
I wouldn't consider ethnomusicology as a hippy major. It attracks the tweed-wearing bow-tie type more than hippies or music majors who play some type of nonwestern instrument. There's not much you can do with it outside of academia, but it is not an easy major.
I remember when schools started developing Women's Studies and Black Studies programs and departments. Obviviously, a product of the 1960s movements.
My college crush is an ethnomusicologist. Back then, he was an undergraduate music major. He's more the longhair type than the tweedy type, for sure.
Pretty much any MFA program is full of hippie artist types who won't get gainful employment after graduation.
Not so much.
I went to school with plenty of people who went on to go the MFA route. To date, I can't think of ANY who are unemployed, though I do know one who has gone the SAHM route. She still sells paintings, though. Probably my most commercially successful MFA friends are ones who are employed by professional theatre companies in Chicago and Washington, D.C. It's nice to be able to make a career out of what you love.
But for each of those examples of MFAs who are gainfully employed in their field, there are probably 100 who are not.
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