Most Regretted College Majors
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Oh look, all the majors that are full of women who are regretting the fact that they have careers instead of husbands and children.
While that is true, it's also true that all of those degrees are trash, make-work, degrees that exist simply because universities want to soak federal loan money out of very stupid people that shouldn't be at university in the first place.
Imagine becoming a librarian and barely earning more than someone at Chick-fil-A as well as having to deal with "youths" who use the library as their personal hangout.
Eh, I've seen plenty of videos of "youths" using various fast food joints as "hangouts" too. And by hangouts I mean Fight Club 2: Chimpanzee Boogaloo.
I mean is it even a library anymore if you go there and it doesn't sound like the forests of Borneo?
“Books!? I ain’t be reading that shit!”
Well we saw that at multiple different riots/looting sprees that the bookstores were ignored by the looters.
Work boots still the least looted item in America.
It can be both and you know that even if you won't admit it.
I know someone who's a Biology major. I don't think he's found a job that remotely cares about a Biology degree. And I know for a fact his coursework was leagues harder than my CS degree.
Biology as a four year degree is useless, though this is mostly due to current academic funding and the vast over allotments to sociology
If you are going to go into Biology, it needs to go deep into Molecular/Cellular Biology, Genetics or Biomedical Engineering.
Biotech is the next booming field, but even so, you won't get paid decently until you are in Masters/PhD territory and have seniority.
If I had a brain and was in my 20s, I'd rather go for Robotics.
There are a shocking number of STEM degrees that are worthless in the job market, at least at the undergrad level. Engineering, programming, and applied math/statistics (assuming programming skills are taught) are the only degrees worth getting at this point, and for the math/statistics you're best off getting a graduate degree.
Nope. Get a physics or mathematics degree and everyone will want to hire you. Especially mathematics. You can easily get an engineering job with a physics degree, even. I've seen it done. In fact, most engineers grads I've met have been pretty poor at actual engineering. At least half of them didn't even know how to do proper GD&T. The other half didn't know what it is. Someone with a physics degree at least knows propagation of error within experiments, and how to construct an experiment (i.e. an engineering trial).
You're saying basically if you can do engineering work, you can get an engineering job. Well, yeah. You may not even need that degree.
I don't know what GD&T is, but I'm a computer programmer not a Real Engineer (tm).
That's because a BS only covers the basics and all the professional work is done by PhDs, mostly in academic settings.
Biology is too vague a degree to even pursue. These days, Biology itself is basically an ecosystem of countless other degrees that they themselves branch off into their own distinct niches.
The running joke when I was in college was that journalism students are just people who were too poor to buy a SLR camera to be a photography major.
Never take a major you can learn on your own time at your own pace.
On top of that, J school now turns out woke assholes who think the world owes them a living. It's never been a path to professional work . . . in fact, it's a liability and has been at least since the early '80s when I was advised to stay away from it.
If I had to bet, I would bet every single one of those majors is completely dominated by female students, with the exception of political science. Maybe journalism is more male too, I'm not sure.
So maybe this is mostly female regret about. higher ed, rather than specific major regret?
Political science is interesting (I really like international relations myself) but it's useless in the job market unless you have quantitative skills, and frankly you're better off pursuing a degree that focus on those skills.
IR?
International Relations
International Relations
Yeah, I'd be interested to see a breakdown by sex as well.
How the hell is "Journalism" even a major? Everyone with a camera and certain literacy could to it
The same reason “adulting” is a class in the Ivy League now. Useless people will pay out the ass for fake credentials that relate to no discernible skills.
And tiktok "influencers" are invited to the White House!
Wait what's 'Education'? As if it was teaching, wouldn't that be called a teaching major/degree?
And I don't think it's a way to catch up if you screwed up high school as isn't that General studies?
It is a teaching degree. You were right. My uni has a "College of Education" for the people working on those majors called "bachelors of education" for example.
That's where mediocre intellects/talents learn all about Paolo Friere.
A lot of higher education around teaching is allergic to the word "teaching". "Education", "pedagogy " they'll go out of their way to avoid saying it.
I think they all quietly realize they've shamefully made "teacher" synonymous with inadequacy and ineptitude, but don't realize that only a teacher would fall for something as shallow and simple as basic word substitution to lose the pattern recognition.
History would actually be a great major if they taught you how to use it outside of academia.
Not really, because it doesn't really have any real world applications outside of archaeology.
That's the problem with most of these degrees, they lack a real world application and are ultimately ponzi schemes with a very tiny sliver able to be successful by getting into positions of teaching to continue the ponzi scheme going and taking advantage of the majority that end up never being able to find a job that requires such a degree.
Although every world leader should have a good and honest historian at his right hand.
It's a rigged game, for sure. A BA in History could spend years researching and writing a book on his own and can't sell it because he's uncredentialled, so he whacks it up and takes a couple of chapters and turns it into a dissertation. Now he gets a UP to back his book because he's an academic.
And no one reads it anyway
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Psychechads still winning over here with No Ragerts. Still dabbing on the socio-failures every year.
I'm surprised about the medical/clinical assisting. From what I've heard from friends in the industry, med techs make bank.
absolutely shit work hours
True, but you can come out of school making a lot of money immediately. So if you can deal with the grind when you are young, you can set yourself up to be in a good place financially.
Like nurses or not?
Nurses I've noticed have like 3 or 4 12 hour shifts. If you can handle or like that it can leave you days off to do other things. It's definitely not for everyone.
High burnout rate depending on where you end up
Burnout is the a term invented by weak faggots who want to collect gibs.
Alternatively, jew capitalists want to work their employees to exhaustion for shit pay.
If it's anything like the dental industry there might different classes of jobs depending on exactly what the degree is. I knew a guy who went into debt for a certification in that field and the job ended up paying around $15/hr. That's not as bad as it sounds considering it was 5 or 10 years ago, but today's equivalent isn't what I would call making bank. He also went to some scam for profit school as well and I don't know how that affected things.
All worthless.