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It seems as if the sales industry is one area where many liberal arts graduates find themselves pursuing after graduation. Do you, or have you known, of any LA grad who did exceptionally well in this field?
Sales is the field that often accepts a person with any college degree. That's why alot of liberal arts majors or those with no focus go into sales. Also, I agree with Pitt Chick.
While it is true that the sales field often accepts people with any college degree, it is becoming more and more common for companies to want technical backgrounds and experience. The medical sales field is a good example. Many firms in this field prefere to hire someone with a life science degree such as biology or nursing. The IT field is similar in that areas like software sales often want someone with industry experience or some type of IT or accounting degree.
It seems as if the sales industry is one area where many liberal arts graduates find themselves pursuing after graduation. Do you, or have you known, of any LA grad who did exceptionally well in this field?
The degree has nothing to do with the skills and personality needed to be a good sales person.
I'll add that for the reasons mentioned above, many OSU grads in liberal arts ended up at Nationwide Insurance (HQ in downtown Cols) and in various call centers around Cols, along with the communications majors.
Maybe 15 or 20 years ago, liberal arts as an undergrad major might've been okay, but even when I was in college, it was an MRS major: women went into it while looking for a husband getting a degree in medicine or engineering. Her goal was to find a husband who was going to make a good living so that she could stay home with the kids. In the meantime, she needed a major that left her plenty of time to socialize, and many became Greeks, which takes up a ton of time.
Say what you will, but even with "women's liberation" in the 70s, this has still been the plan of a great many women and probably some men in this day and age.
I happen to think it's the lazy way out and they deserve what they get in the end, but we've always had slackers in our society.
It seems as if the sales industry is one area where many liberal arts graduates find themselves pursuing after graduation. Do you, or have you known, of any LA grad who did exceptionally well in this field?
Yes. My nephew has done outstandingly well in this field. He took some specialized courses in college having to do with sales-oriented communication skills.
It seems as if the sales industry is one area where many liberal arts graduates find themselves pursuing after graduation. Do you, or have you known, of any LA grad who did exceptionally well in this field?
Generally speaking, people who are good at sales are the ones who do exceptionally well in the sales field.
I'll add that for the reasons mentioned above, many OSU grads in liberal arts ended up at Nationwide Insurance (HQ in downtown Cols) and in various call centers around Cols, along with the communications majors.
Maybe 15 or 20 years ago, liberal arts as an undergrad major might've been okay, but even when I was in college, it was an MRS major: women went into it while looking for a husband getting a degree in medicine or engineering. Her goal was to find a husband who was going to make a good living so that she could stay home with the kids. In the meantime, she needed a major that left her plenty of time to socialize, and many became Greeks, which takes up a ton of time.
Say what you will, but even with "women's liberation" in the 70s, this has still been the plan of a great many women and probably some men in this day and age.
I happen to think it's the lazy way out and they deserve what they get in the end, but we've always had slackers in our society.
I saw this in my college except with art majors and some elementary ed majors, I never personally knew any liberal arts majors but it wouldn't surprise me. We had lots of Mrs. degree seekers and I think women's liberation missed a lot of women at our college. We even had someone with the student newspaper who wrote a piece on it my junior year.
I also agree that liberal arts is a lazy way out of college. And as far as sales go, there are probably quite a few liberal arts majors who are good at selling French fries out of a drive through window.
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