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Let's not be pedantic and evasive.
Probably because it is a dumb set of questions. Unless he honestly believes people pursue degrees in comparative literature because they assume it'll best maximize their ability to compete on the job market.this has yet to be answered by the pretentious liberal art majors in dis here thread.
don't be mean to me, the rigor is the same as other legit degrees
Let's not be pedantic and evasive.
LeeMajors,
What kind of lab if you don't mind me asking?
It's actually not a stupid set of questions. Those are questions posed for people like you, CF, and the rest of the spurstalk contingent trying to legitimize a liberal arts degree. It'd be best to answer them directly.
DMC might be an engineer but the difference is he never s his mom or sisters like you & your amigos usually do
if $ is the only thing that matters in your life then such websites like spurstalk should be shut down because it doesn't generate no extra income for its owners, nor have you guys dropping 30+ posts a day ever got paid for posting here imho
say you can make decent $ writing blogs or selling novels, and you don't need a finance/accounting/engineering degree to do that. you never get fooled by your knowledge and the knowledge/skills/intelligence you have will eventually pay off one day or another. engineering jobs will shrink alot in the near future with the growing use of more advanced softwares and computers, while you'll see the blossoming of other industries including but not limited to entertainment, service, education etc...
one of the keys to success is envisioning the future before others do imho
thats not even a mexican stereotype, stop pulling out of your ass you racist s .
Not sure why you cut off the second half of my post as it pretty much gets my point across fairly well.
If we are acting pompous around here, why the should anyone have to legitimize their degree to someone with a UTA business degree?
Does your love of shemales stem from the fact that your mother is really your father?
There are professionals who can help with your daddy issues, tbh
I understand if you don't want to reveal your salary, but my guess is a nuclear whateverthe youdo (and that's not me trying to be condescending about your science degree, that's me not wanting to attempt to correctly spell your occupation
What kind of internships are there? Do you give art museum tours to people taking summer vacation?
sup dudes
I really don't care, those n!ggers
u jelly of the grove brah
1. That was terribly unffuny.
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2. Who the are you, ?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagou...ajors-degrees/
With rising tuition costs and a rapidly changing job landscape, a student’s college major is more important than ever. It can either set you up for lifetime career success and high earnings or sink you into debt with few avenues to get ahead of it.
“Unless you go to a top-20 brand name school, what matters most to employers is your major,” says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at compensation research firm PayScale. In fact, in a new report by Gen-Y researcher Millennial Branding, a full 69% of managers agreed that relevant coursework is important when considering job candidates.
So which college majors are most likely to land you a well-paying job right out of school? Analysts at PayScale compared its massive compensation database with 120 college majors and job growth projections through 2020 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to determine the 15 most valuable majors in the current marketplace. Ranked by median starting pay, median mid-career pay (at least 10 years in), growth in salary and wealth of job opportunities, engineering and math reigned supreme.
At No. 1, biomedical engineering is the major that is most worth your tuition, time and effort.
Biomedical engineers earn a median starting salary of $53,800, which grows an average of 82% to $97,800 by mid-career. Moreover, the BLS projects a whopping 61.7% growth of job opportunities in the field—the most of any other major on the list. Engineering concentrations comprise one third of the most valuable majors. Software engineering majors (No. 4) earn a median of $87,800 after 10 years on the job; environmental engineering majors (No. 5) earn a median of $88,600; civil engineering majors (No. 6) earn a median of $90,200; and petroleum engineering majors (No. 9) earn a median of $155,000—the highest paycheck on the list.
“These aren’t majors that anyone could do. They’re hard, and these programs weed people out,” says Bardaro. “However, there is high demand for them and a low supply of people with the skills, so it drives up the labor market price.”
In the Millennial Branding survey, employers reported engineering and computer information systems majors as their top recruits. Also, nearly half of these employers (47%) said the compe ion for new science, technology, engineering and math talent is steep. That means while other recent grads fight for jobs, these students will likely field multiple offers.
Math and science concentrations are also well-represented on this list. Biochemistry (No. 2), computer science (No. 3), applied mathematics (No. 10), mathematics (No. 11), physics (No. 14) and statistics (No. 15) majors are increasingly in demand and well-paid.
Bardaro believes that the new data-driven market makes math skills, particularly statistics, more and more valuable to employers. Many companies now collect large datasets on consumer behavior, be it online search patterns or user demographics. Statisticians who understand data and can use it to forecast trends and behavior will do especially well, she says.
Conversely, the worst-paying college majors are child and family studies, elementary education, social work, culinary arts, special education, recreation and leisure studies, religious studies, and athletic training.
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I really have no idea where people are getting this idea that engineering jobs are hard to find out of college.
Last edited by DMC; 10-26-2012 at 01:15 AM.
When discussion about fields of study arises, there are always some science people who get uppity about their field of study. I do not get it. I have a degree in mathematics, but I think it was actually a pretty easy field for me to study. Then, I have a minor in a humanities that actually was more challenging. I studied both because imagine this - I went to college to educate myself. Then, I have a master's in a third field and this is the area in which I actually work. It is a field that I chose because it interests me and it is what I want to do although I will never get paid much for doing it.
Eh, the engineering majors I know are all very hard working people who are staying in on Saturday to study on the reg, I have nothing but respect for them and I can see why they get uppity about the fact they work harder than anyone else, it's human nature and they really do have the most rigorous major. The uppity science majors I find hilarious are the ones who are some variation of premed w/ a mediocre GPA and no chance at getting into med school yet still thump their chest to the fact they're premed. One of them graduated, decided to get an MBA (something that you won't get the most of without real work experience), and is clueless about accounting so he'll randomly call me asking for help on accounting after years of telling me how I was wasting my education by getting a business degree.
Ask one of those engineering majors to read I and Thou and see how they do.
Really pointless to read it in anything other than the original German.
I'm being neither.
I was asking how you expected to leapfrog into all the open advanced engineering positions despite the constant influx of new graduates and the saturation of entry level positions. Connections and internships, as vague concepts, are not sufficient answers to that question. Making connections and working as an intern are expected when getting a degree in any field, so simply doing that does not make you (or anyone else) special and unique.
It absolutely is a stupid set of questions. It attempts to judge liberal arts criteria against measures it was never intended to satisfy.
Because engineering interns are let loose and allowed to just start building on day one?
Internships in my field are no more or less filled with bull busywork than internships in any other field. You do the the paid staff doesn't want to do. In a museum, that could include everything from working the front desk, to helping to plan/organize special events, to helping install new shows, and on and on.
That's not uppity. That's pouting based on an assumption that everyone else is off having fun while they're stuck inside. Anyone in college who takes their work seriously is spending plenty of Saturday nights at home, no matter their field of study.
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