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Liberal Arts, as a whole, is not suited for finding a job easily. Look into healthcare related fields, engineering, accounting.
3 . . . 2 . . . 1 cue all the liberal arts defenders.
Exactly.
My friends who majored in communications are all in a sales position (if they're employed). I know two girls who work at a popular PR firm, one was an econ major and the other got her masters in art history.
My friends who majored in communications are all in a sales position (if they're employed). I know two girls who work at a popular PR firm, one was an econ major and the other got her masters in art history.
You are both wrong. Liberal Arts is perfectly fine, you just have to do it with a purpose and complete it in a way that you have a logical niche. For example, "doing history" is clearly pointless, I get that. But majoring in history and also speaking Arabic and being a specialist in MENA history is marketable.
There's many folks who are just doing MBAs because well that's what you're supposed to do. They're in the same boat as the widely laughed at "liberal arts" types.
By the way, what fields are considered liberal arts? Is it the entire humanities and social sciences?
The problem is the delta in the purpose of college 50 years ago vs now. It used to be that you go to college to get ANY degree in order to learn critical thinking and how to expand your intellect. Now you get a degree in whatever field youre supposed to work in. Also Liberal arts degrees have historically been the first step towards Med school (plus addtnl science courses), Law school, Phd programs, etc. So a lot of people get lib arts degree with Law school in mind, then dont get accepted and are stuck out there with a lib arts degree and no job outlooks.
In this day and age you have to pick your career first, then tailor your degree to the career. If you dont know what you want to do in life, dont start college yet. Because once you do you need a 4.0 to stand out since there are so many out there with a college education now due to the availability of student loans.
The problem is the delta in the purpose of college 50 years ago vs now. It used to be that you go to college to get ANY degree in order to learn critical thinking and how to expand your intellect. Now you get a degree in whatever field youre supposed to work in. Also Liberal arts degrees have historically been the first step towards Med school (plus addtnl science courses), Law school, Phd programs, etc. So a lot of people get lib arts degree with Law school in mind, then dont get accepted and are stuck out there with a lib arts degree and no job outlooks.
In this day and age you have to pick your career first, then tailor your degree to the career. If you dont know what you want to do in life, dont start college yet. Because once you do you need a 4.0 to stand out since there are so many out there with a college education now due to the availability of student loans.
Yea, this is the other problem, that somehow you MUST go to college right after high school, or that if you're 22 you MUST be thinking of enrolling in a post-graduate program right there and then.
When writing this I wasn't serious about the grammar and spelling. I do not have the best grammar but it's average however, I do need more practice.
I really do not have an option when it comes to college degrees. It is either Communications, Liberal Arts.... etc nothing that requires math for example taking classes in Calculus, Trig, Advanced Algebra!
So its either get a degree in Communications or in TV/Radio Production, or dropping out of college and work my ass off taking internships and every opportunity that I can. To be honest I am not the college type of person, but, I am taking the initiative to go through something that I am weak in and that is academics.
I mean having some employees tell you to marry a rich person does NOT feel good, (I've been told that) so I am going to take my chances even though most people think Im in La La land. However the people who are in La La land are actually living there dream or working at a job that doesn't pay that much but are happy in what they do. Instead of someone who is brilliant intellectually and working earning 80- 100k but are miserable and unhappy, the money is good but the stress isn't worth it.
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