It's all right wing hedge funds? So why do they lean left?
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I remember my grandad used to go on about not wasting time on a degree you can't get a job with. He had a degree himself in a time when it was much less common. It was more so with my brother who would come up with some stupid shit like Egyptology. "You can't get a job with that, don't waste your time with that!"
We need more of that. It's really not, "If you just believe in yourself and try you can be successful doing anything."
People aren't taught how to utilize college properly. It's always 'Get degree, magic happens'. Which might have worked at one point, but the environment has changed, drastically, and people need to recognize this.
If there's one thing I could hammer into people nowadays that I had to learn the hard way - never, ever graduate college without having a job lined up and locked down. You should be using your last year taking 'easy' classes and wringing every last drop of advantage over the social network you've built up amongst all your college professors to get yourself a nice lock-in. This is critical. I'd go so far as to put off graduating if need be. It's that important.
It was never school for me, ever. They'd go on about follow your passion and such. It was actually grandfathers the most if I think about it, and it wasn't from being rich as they weren't. They were both involved in the small towns where they lived, so whenever I'd visit I'd inevitably end up at lunch at the cafe where they always went sitting around with a bunch of independent men with small businesses. There's a ton of osmosis for a kid in that environment, outside of the "ol yeah you should get your grandad to bring you by and I'll show you my <whatever it is they did for a living>."
Isn't Egyptology like... an actual field? Like Egypt's history is so deep that people spend their entire fucking lifetimes trying to figure it out because they had a long-standing culture worth studying.
It is a legit field but it's extremely tiny, so chances you'll be getting a job that leverages your degree after graduating are minimal.
It's not as fake as many, but I wasn't going to make up "women's studies" and include it in my story falsely. It's also pretty tough to be employed in, which was my point. Yeah, it can happen, but it's more likely to be the path to barista with a degree than not.
It's at very least a pyramid scheme. We graduate 100-200 history majors a year per university, and have 5,000 universities with history departments of 10-20 people. That's each university, every year. It's expected that the cream of the crop rise to the top, but we've churned so many out we wouldn't know good if it bit us. Heck, we might actually punish good.
The best part is we don't aim History majors at jobs outside of academia. The ability to research at that level would be amazing for businesses. This should be a great job making degree. No one is taught how to promote it or even apply outside of academia. Then if someone comes from the outside with research, we then say that person isn't good enough because they haven't worked in the pyramid scheme.
It's a perfect system to exploit if you knew how and wanted power or money.
The affixing of “pseudo-“ to any and all -ologists who haven’t prostrated themselves at the foot of the golden calf known as “the academy” (and the general public’s propensity to “trust the experts” and shut up) is truly one of the most damaging attitudes of our modern “enlightened” world
The same with Information/Information Sciences/Library Information Sciences. All of those degrees get pigeonholed in low-paying Ponzi schemes, where the younger grads get sucked into toxic, soul crushing organizations, while the people at the top make 6 figures for essentially glad handing politicians.
The soft sciences as well. I had a class on business anthropology and was told it was evil to even consider.