College is a great place to learn and have fun. But let’s not kid ourselves, some degrees are as useless as the plot in a Michael Bay film. Here’s a list of 10 degrees that may be interesting, but do jack shit for you in the real world.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: With an art history degree you could maybe curate an art gallery or work at a museum or….yeah, that’s it. That’s all you can do. And seeing as how every art gallery and museum I’ve ever been to has exactly one dude sitting quietly at a desk reading a New Yorker and eating a food that requires chopsticks, I’m going to go ahead and assume there’s not a lot of positions open in the field. That means you’re going to have to venture out into the corporate world. And let me inform you, when you’re interviewing with Bob from the HR team at Wal-Mart who’s wearing a tie that has the twin towers smoking with writing underneath that says “We Will Never Forget,” your art history degree says to him “I’m a commie a-hole who thinks I’m better than guys with 9/11 ties.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: After your parents boot your ass from your bedroom to make room for anything that’s not your bedroom, you’ll wander towards the nearest coffee shop and get a job there, which will allow you to meet artists who will thank you for allowing them to put fliers by the cash register that inform people of their upcoming show that touts “the combination of art and flute.”
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: This isn’t ancient Greece: No one is going to pay you money, or allow you to sodomize their attractive son, in exchange for your knowledge of existence. Never has there been an employer who’s said “Man, we’re having all kinds of problems, I wish we had someone on our team who could reference and draw conclusions from the story of Siddhartha that would pull up our fourth quarter numbers.” I took many philosophy classes and it involved reading and smoking a shit pile of weed. You don’t need to pay 20,000 dollars a year to do that. All you need is twenty dollars and a library card.
What Job You’ll End Up With: Thanks to your extensive knowledge of philosophy, you’re now self-aware enough to know that most jobs out there will make you totally miserable. So most likely you’ll wait tables part time and hope someone starts paying you for the bi-monthly entries on your blog.
Why It Won't Help You Get a Job: If you're not named Achmed or Bjork or G'Day Mate this isn't a degree, it's the last 18 years of your life. If you really want to study us you don't need to go to some stupid class, you need only to sit back and watch a two-hour block of Must-See TV to understand The American. After doing my own research, it seems that this mysterious creature is a pot-bellied humanoid with a hot wife and bad credit who has a penchant for low-calorie beer, Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays, Denny's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dave and Busters, Steak and Shake, Chilis (again) and Red Lobster. Oh and he can totally demolish a White Castle Crave Case in, like, 20 seconds. OK, now give me my degree.
What Job You’ll End Up With: To take your American Studies degree one step further, you will be qualified to do 40-50 years of “graduate work” cleaning tables and taking orders at a Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays or Red Lobster. Or possibly Denny’s.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: I didn’t even know this was a major until I found it on the Appalachian State website. According to their actual explanation of this major: “Music therapy is the scientific application of the art of music within a therapeutic relationship to meet the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals.” Which is a big, fancy way of saying “We’ll teach you how to make a mix tape.” I guess I, too, am a qualified music therapist because my “Summer Jams ‘95” tape I made in the 10th grade totally rocked my house party. All my friends told me that kicking it off with Wreckz-N-Effects “Rump Shaker” followed by Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” totally met their physical, mental and spiritual needs to help them get wasted on my dad’s Schnapps and Drambuie.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After realizing that yoga studios and elderly homes don’t pay people just to come in and set mood music, you’re sadly going to end up putting your degree towards burning a fire to keep warm because you are homeless.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Go into a communications class on any given day and it’ll smell like dried semen and booze. Reason being, communications is the major for anyone who wants to graduate, but doesn’t want to stop getting totally wasted on weekdays. Here’s the bad news, if an employer is going to hire someone to help decipher how human beings communicate, he’s going to hire someone with the letters “Dr.” before their name, not the person who first checks to see if a class is offered online, then when they find out it’s not, let’s out a “gaaaaay bro.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: You’ll go to several job interviews that turn out to be pyramid schemes, even though at first you won’t realize this and come home and tell your parents, who you still live with, “They said I’ll probably be making six figures in less than a year just by selling these beer cozies.”
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Despite what “Dancing with the Stars” and “High School Musical” may tell you, there aren’t a lot of dancing jobs out there—so you better be good because there aren’t any gigs for mediocre dancers. Outside of New York City or some crap in LA there is absolutely nothing you can do with a dance degree that doesn’t involve actually dancing for money. And since the Des Moines interpretive dance movement hasn’t really taken off yet, you have a better chance landing a job as an 8-Track repairman or a member of the Beatles.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After moving to New York and trying out for Hello Dolly! or Damn Yankees or any of the other seven Broadway plays that want dancers and not landing a single one because you got your dance degree from Ball State, you will find ample opportunity to show off your choreographic skills at one of the city’s many strip clubs. You’ll just need to change your name to Crystal or Bambi and you’ll be able finally live out your dream as a dancer. (Mom and Dad will be so proud!)
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: If someone can spend a weekend with a box of Cliff’s Notes and have only a slightly less conversational knowledge of what you spent 4 years studying, you probably don’t have the most employer friendly degree. Having an English Lit degree is like being a member of the Kansas City Royals: No one cares and the best you can hope for is every once in a while someone buys you a beer because of it.
What Job You’ll End Up With: You can read and comprehend, so that gives you an advantage over 99.5% of the people that peruse Craig’s list job listings. Therefore, you’ll most likely end up landing an entry level position at a random small company, or showing up to your interview and being raped repeatedly by a group of masked men.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Not only does no one speak this language anymore, but we already have all the Latin that exists in the world. There’s no new Latin that’s hot off the presses that needs immediate translating. I’m no business major, but majoring in a language that doesn’t exist anymore doesn’t sound so good for job security. And I’m sorry to break the news to you, but the world doesn’t need someone to translate The Bible or the inscription on the side of a Post Office or El Loco Latino’s “Latin House Party.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: Since you majored in something that doesn’t exist, you’re going to have two jobs. Your first one will be as the annoying pretentious guy who gives everyone the Latin etymology of every big word he hears at every dinner party he attends. Your second, and most lucrative job, will be as a Subway Sandwich Artist.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: No one in hollywood gives a shit that you made a short film about an alcoholic albino that discovers the meaning of life through the help of a retarded child. Unless that retarded child was played by the son of Harvey Weinstein, your film or degree will be as pointless as the last three seasons of Lost
What Job You’ll End Up With: If you’re lucky, you’ll have an uncle who can get you a job as a production assistant on CSI Miami, where your time will be spent making coffee runs and finding whores that will let David Caruso pee on them.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Sorry God, but a major in Religion is about as worthless as St. Brice (The Patron Saint of Stomach Aches.) Even Duke University can’t put a solid sell on this degree: “A major in religion offers intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.” OK, you sold me. So now I get to shell out about a hundred thousand dollars so I can know what to wear to a Shinto ceremony and learn how many virgins Allah will give me if I blow myself up in an Israeli square? If it’s OK with you, I’ll keep my money and stick to my sinning-a-lot-now-and-repenting-on-my-deathbed plan.
What Job You’ll End Up With: This one is tricky. On one hand you’ll probably end up working behind the desk of a Christian Science Reading Room. But on the other, you may end up with everlasting peace and spiritual enlightenment. Let’s call it a draw.
i once met a graduate student who earned a degree in puppetry. she gave a conference paper on issues of race and the muppet show. yet she was dumbfounded when an audience member asked for her thoughts on the show crank yankers - honestly if you're going to waste your time studying puppets at least keep up speed!
I disagree with your maligning of Latin and Philosophy. Without the latin (and Greek!) I would never have undertood tghe workings of grammar - and, thus, of the human brain. Philosophy, on the other hand, helped understanding how strangely the mind and reality are sometimes dis-related (must be through lack of philosophy). What you forgot, howeverr, to put into your list is "Women's Studies". Although we must adnmit: It nay e totally useless phantasizing about a reality seen through a warped mirror cabinet, but it will help you getting jobs in one of those hundreds of 'Women's magazines", in Harvard (now with a 'Women's Studies' President), and the armed forces (posting in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib). But otherwise: it's rubbish.
There are so many things you can do with an English degree! You can become a teacher, a professor, an editor, you can work for somewhere like spark or cliff notes, you can work for a text book company, you can write manuals...
All of these degrees are worthless. I spent 2 years in school to get one degree: Computer Networking. I make $90k/year as a Network Systems Admin. Not a bad return on 2 years of work.
I have buddy who majored in Community and Regional Development. Spent a whole year trying to get a job, so he decided to go back to school and get his masters...
in Community and Regional Development. He still gets blank stares when he tells people he has a masters in CRD.
Michael Perceval has it right. I work in the technology field (my degree being in IT), and the CIO for the company I work for doesn't even have a degree in our field! I listened to many professors and instructors tell me that many companies don't care if your degree is in underwater basket weaving, only that you have one. This is mostly to say that their work-force are educated above the high school level. After 4 years of college, I did realize one thing... I could have spent about $35,000 less than I did, buy out all the books from Barnes and Noble, paid for the cert testing, and learned more than I did in the classroom.
"im a XXX major and im making XXXXXXX, so the major is not useless"
youre a retard
Do what you want, if you like dance, be a dance major, freedom means to right to chose, unaffected by forum flamers.
.....unless youre communication or american studies, because come on man, you can see how people can be geniunely interested in philosophy or art history, but that shit is like a 4 years of telling you mcdonalds makes burgers
My girlfriend majored in religion. Two years out of college she's getting a think-tank to pay for her international studies master's and making 30,000 a year doing what she loves. Not bad.
Hey comm majors... can you say do you want fries with that? The job market is literally filled to the brim with people that work in actual communications.
I am a software engineer, BS in Computer Science and working on my masters in CS. What really pissed me off in college were the liberal arts and business majors complaining that they had to write papers... They had to do research and then write a little paper on what they found in a book... Are you for real?? A 10 page paper?? I would've loved to just write a 10 page paper. No I had to write a 10 page paper and make it do something. Oh and this was in another language... yeah no sympathy for people that bitch about writing papers...
My reaction to the bitching about writing papers does not include other scientific and engineering perspectives like biology, chemistry, physics etc, because they have to MAKE the experiment and then write a 10+ page lab report on their finding
I should say business and science. Apparently according to most people here, thats all you can possibly do to stay afloat.
But F*** that. Do what you love and nothing less. And I seriously doubt that people major in business and kiss a CEO's ass because they love it and are passionate about customizing thier cubicle and wearing new and exciting ties to the office. Go ahead make fun of the creatives. At least they're happy.
I agree with the fact that the whole college thing is a scam, just another gold star on your report card, that happens to cost $40,000 (and yes, im just as guilty of playing along). Screw your GPA. If you seriously care about what your doing then thats all that counts.
i must admit that for such "educated" people, I shudder to think you take this seriously, almost amazes me that Americans buy into such bullshit. I love the American machine, which you are all nuts and bolts, fat, rusty, middle-grade nuts and bolts that claim you "work so hard" yet you probably have never done a real day's work in your lives. I really believe it to be true when I think that you all believe that the little piece of paper with your name on it, given to you like a "souvenir" that looks fancy but alas, loses its luxury after about say, a week. Your degree does not make you, it may make you part of a shitty life where you become part of the system that incorporates you to put work and money first, kids second, spouse third, and you'll hardly ever see your family again. You'll miss your mum's funeral, and you'll forget cousins, nieces/nephews, and you'll become a workaholic while hardly doing any real strenuous work. You'll create/be given bullshit titles to make it seem like what you do is important, when really you're doing about as much as the guy working in Fast Food, probably he's getting better wages/insurance than you are!
Here's the funniest part though: The illegal immigrant who can hardly speak a word of english, who fixes your A/C is making around the same amount of money as you! And guess what? He doesn't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to pay back. So despite your so-called degree, and the supposedly nice job you've received, in the end, it's a little bit better work for the same exact amount of pay some half-witted jock makes flipping burgers or fixing heaters
Best degree ever: Fine Art- you take all of the computer classes. Graduate, then get a high-starting wage job as a Flash Designer, and Laugh at all of your unemployed, economic majoring buddies who are unemployed!
Music Therapy has applications with autistic children. It can be used to stimulate lower functioning children into speaking. But of course, that also goes with psychology, behaviour study, and ability to teach. Also, most don't want to help autistic children
i'm a communications major. i just graduated. i will be working as a pharmaceutical sales rep. oh...and i'll be making 60k, driving a free car...and not paying for my gas...haha...boo to your list!
The most common question a music therapist will be asked is "What is music therapy anyway?" I have a feeling you didn't ask anyone because it is apparent that you really have no clue what it is all about. i suggest you do some research and stop by some of these websites like www.musictherapy.org, www.austmta.org.au/, http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/emtc/e_index1.php, or www.musictherapy.ca/. These are just four professional orginaizations around the world that would be very helpful in conveying the true ideals of music therapy to you. Let me just make mention of the applications of this type of therapy: Neonatal intensive care, mentally ill, the physically handicapped, those who have been abused, the elderly including those suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia, the terminally ill, the mentally retarded and the developmentally delayed, the traumatically brain injured, those with learning disabilities, stroke victims, Rehabilitation, Autism, the list could be continued. I wish you could talk to the mother of an 8 year old autistic child who has just heard him say "I love you" for the first time during a therapy session. Or perhaps talk with the wife of a Alzheimer's patient whose residual music memory helped him to reacall who she was and sing her 'their song' one last time before he passed away. As far as "Summer Jams 95" is concerned, I would be willing to help you work through the pain and anger of your underage alcoholism and profound bad taste in music. But please really research this stuff before you pass judgment, one day you very well may fall into one of thoes catagories and need a good dose of music therapy for your mind, body and soul.
The fact that you think music therapy is just setting mood music in the old folks home is absolutely rediculous. Music therapists go through intense training in school, a 6 month internship, and then take an exam to become board certified. Music therapy is one of the growing jobs out there unlike your common sit behind a desk jobs that are fizzling. Music therapists are actually helping people. Music therapy is a scientific, research based practice that is constantly in partnership with other modalities not for our own benefit but to help benefit the individuals that we work with. If you have never helped a child with autism speak, helped a cancer patient ease their pain, worked with a person in a mental health hospital to become more socially acceptable, or found ways to help the alzheimer's patient remember their families names, who they are, and become less aggressive, then you can not say that music therapy is making a mixed tape. As I said, we are research based and while we use music to help people, it's the therapeutic function of how we use it that makes us the professionals. Unless you have the credentials of a music therapist DO NOT say that you are one because you can play music. You are commiting a huge wrong to society. Quit writing this kind of trash. The other majors you listed also have more promise than you obviously have any clue about. Once again, Quit writing this trash. Do your research. Observe. Then I'll talk to you..
For the idiot who said getting a social work degree was worthless, I've got a little dose of reality for you. Unless you decide to go to Harvard or some other ultra expensive private college, getting your master's degree in social work is not going to cost you $400,000. You can go to any major state university and get your BSW and MSW for a total of $50,000 max. I got my master's in SW 10 years ago and paid a total of $33,000 for undergrad and grad school at that time. I now make $95,000 a year (I'll admit the average social worker in my city makes closer to $60,000, but that's still a decent wage). So, take your ignorant comments and stick them where the sun doesn't shine.
I hear a lot of people bashing people who work in cubicles all day (Which is understandable, its not fun), but i dont hear too many people saying that they "followed there passion" in college and got a job doing something they love that isnt a cube job or teaching.
I got a useful major and took liberal arts classes i enjoyed liked Philosophy, European Politics, American History, Photography, etc. Thats the beauty of Americas education system.
There isn't a degree that is, by itself, worth anything. It's where you got it and who you got to know while you were there. Brownnose your best-known profs. Kiss ass unmercifully. They can often help you get your first job through their contacts. If they haven't got any contacts, you've been sucking up to the wrong dude!
Network your ass off in dorms, frats, sororities, organizations, the college newspaper, etc. All of this will definitely pay off. The schmucks you're in school with right now will someday become actual PEOPLE. A few of them will get good jobs and will be able to hire your ass into their companies. Never never never make an enemy in college. Don't be smarmy about it, but do favors for folks; never bitch about or gossip about anyone, even if they are the worst shitheads you've ever met. Leave 'em liking you.
This will pay off again and again throughout your life.
I need a degree-any offers? Not kidding for the most part...then again, maybe I am and obfustacating for fun? Whadda' think and why even bother, brother and sister? You're OK or maybe so, so...SO?! What's it about , if not the journey and bathroom fixtures of existence? I Guess, therefore, I must BE...tee hee hee Go team Go-Gee Whiz and that's what it Is...anyway or thereabouts I think and that makes the difference or provides the ride with accourtments and diversions from tomorrows despair and after that, death...Hey enjoy! It's a short and savage ride and the upside is used cars are cheaper in the end and from the beginning-what's true is what is perceived and agreed upon for your own edification and benefit...YoYoMaPa...Doubts are not too good for the ecomomy or your happiness! Deny everything...Don't Think Twice...bye bye baby bye bye
Hello to everyone. Re. music therapy, my band mate got into it and I have never seen a man so fulfilled. He worked with mainly blind and/or deaf disabled adults and I too saw them smile and react. By the way, I found this site very funny. Take care all and bye bye to everyone.
I have to say communications majors may know how to communicate, but they just don't know what they are communicating about. I know numerous comm majors who are working dead end jobs with a comm degree from a quality private university.
to the person who spoke about umass turf grass management:
i'm not in stockbridge [the school that has it], but i knew people who were in it. that school cranks out more millionaires than most ivy leagues. people pay ridiculous sums of money to have their million dollar golf courses cut perfectly. it's a pretty good deal for a two-year school. one of the people i knew had his own lawn cutting business since he was 15, and the only reason he was in school was that he needed a college degree in order to get the kinds of government loans he wanted.
sounds like a pretty good deal to me. two years of high school geography and botany classes in exchange for becoming a millionaire?
also, communication can go both ways. there are people who make it and become CEOs, and then there are the drama club kids in high school who want to work in tv and end up with cats.
My sister has had the same major of communications for god knows how long and the description fits her so perfectly that I couldn't believe it! That's so hilarious!!!!
Art History major = plenty of jobs: art dealer, art therapist, museum curator, art history professor with a PhD, photojournalist, art director, retail buyer, advertising...seriously the list goes on.
As for the dance degree, I majored in dance, and have a job teaching dance at a middle school as an alternative for PE. So not being able to find a job is not true, plus, now with the popularity of cruise lines that set sail year round, there are hundreds of jobs dancing on cruise lines, not to mention the theme parks and local dance studios. Dance is also becoming recognized in physical therapy and ballet is used in all professional sports especially football, so sit there and say there are no jobs, thats just being too ignorant to actually think about what you are writing and doing research.
so, all i have to say is that whoever wrote this should have atleast done a small amount of research first. I have a degree in Art History. There is far more you can do with that degree than just work at an art gallery or museum. First of all, as for the job of curator; all museums have a cheif curator and a staff below them for each department. Some museums have a curatorial staff of 10 or more for just one area of art (such as Egyptian art). There are also multiple other jobs available in museums such as exhibit director/designer, exhibit instulation, colletions manager, archives, conservationist, preservation, administration, educational programs offered in the museum. Outside of teh realm of museums and galleries, if you open your mind a little past the obvious job courses. An art History degree can land a person other types of jobs such as at auction houses, professor at a university, write for a multitude of art magazines and catalogues, artist representative, antique dealer, publishing, art & estate appraiser, art investment, art law, if a student considers a second degree in law. The FBI maintains a 12-person Art Crime Team which investigates art thefts and fraud; so a job in law enforcement is an option. As well as governmental agency jobs such as the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Just to name a few. So Please, if some is considering art history as a career path, don't be swayed by an uneducated opinion by someone who clearly has no knowledge on the subject. You have job options.
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June 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Boondock Saints was awesome
June 9th, 2008 at 01:36 am
i once met a graduate student who earned a degree in puppetry. she gave a conference paper on issues of race and the muppet show. yet she was dumbfounded when an audience member asked for her thoughts on the show crank yankers - honestly if you're going to waste your time studying puppets at least keep up speed!
June 9th, 2008 at 03:31 am
I disagree with your maligning of Latin and Philosophy. Without the latin (and Greek!) I would never have undertood tghe workings of grammar - and, thus, of the human brain. Philosophy, on the other hand, helped understanding how strangely the mind and reality are sometimes dis-related (must be through lack of philosophy). What you forgot, howeverr, to put into your list is "Women's Studies". Although we must adnmit: It nay e totally useless phantasizing about a reality seen through a warped mirror cabinet, but it will help you getting jobs in one of those hundreds of 'Women's magazines", in Harvard (now with a 'Women's Studies' President), and the armed forces (posting in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib). But otherwise: it's rubbish.
June 9th, 2008 at 04:07 am
There are so many things you can do with an English degree! You can become a teacher, a professor, an editor, you can work for somewhere like spark or cliff notes, you can work for a text book company, you can write manuals...
June 9th, 2008 at 04:18 am
i know the guys in the communications picture! GO TEXAS STATE!
June 9th, 2008 at 05:12 am
All of these degrees are worthless. I spent 2 years in school to get one degree: Computer Networking. I make $90k/year as a Network Systems Admin. Not a bad return on 2 years of work.
June 9th, 2008 at 01:45 pm
yeah yeah App State!! That's where I went.... I didn't major in music theory, just about everything else though.
June 9th, 2008 at 07:49 pm
I have buddy who majored in Community and Regional Development. Spent a whole year trying to get a job, so he decided to go back to school and get his masters...
in Community and Regional Development. He still gets blank stares when he tells people he has a masters in CRD.
June 9th, 2008 at 08:50 pm
I don't know, I think it's pretty uncreative people who thinks those majors are useless.
June 9th, 2008 at 09:24 pm
I published a response to this post, including career planning links for people in those majors and other such informative content.
http://www.30secondwords.com/2008/06/holy-tacos-top-10-most-useless-coll...
June 9th, 2008 at 09:32 pm
you're probably just angry because no one accepted you. At least people with these majors went to college and made something of themselves ....
June 10th, 2008 at 03:46 am
Michael Perceval has it right. I work in the technology field (my degree being in IT), and the CIO for the company I work for doesn't even have a degree in our field! I listened to many professors and instructors tell me that many companies don't care if your degree is in underwater basket weaving, only that you have one. This is mostly to say that their work-force are educated above the high school level. After 4 years of college, I did realize one thing... I could have spent about $35,000 less than I did, buy out all the books from Barnes and Noble, paid for the cert testing, and learned more than I did in the classroom.
June 10th, 2008 at 04:52 am
you forgot education majors
June 10th, 2008 at 06:30 am
You forgot Anthropology. That is substantially more useless than Communications.
June 10th, 2008 at 07:03 am
Anyone who posted shit defending their major with
"im a XXX major and im making XXXXXXX, so the major is not useless"
youre a retard
Do what you want, if you like dance, be a dance major, freedom means to right to chose, unaffected by forum flamers.
.....unless youre communication or american studies, because come on man, you can see how people can be geniunely interested in philosophy or art history, but that shit is like a 4 years of telling you mcdonalds makes burgers
COME ON
June 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
My girlfriend majored in religion. Two years out of college she's getting a think-tank to pay for her international studies master's and making 30,000 a year doing what she loves. Not bad.
June 10th, 2008 at 01:19 pm
Hey comm majors... can you say do you want fries with that? The job market is literally filled to the brim with people that work in actual communications.
I am a software engineer, BS in Computer Science and working on my masters in CS. What really pissed me off in college were the liberal arts and business majors complaining that they had to write papers... They had to do research and then write a little paper on what they found in a book... Are you for real?? A 10 page paper?? I would've loved to just write a 10 page paper. No I had to write a 10 page paper and make it do something. Oh and this was in another language... yeah no sympathy for people that bitch about writing papers...
My reaction to the bitching about writing papers does not include other scientific and engineering perspectives like biology, chemistry, physics etc, because they have to MAKE the experiment and then write a 10+ page lab report on their finding
June 10th, 2008 at 02:00 pm
So basically anyone not majoring in business is out of a job and wasting their time? Wow, what a depressing world if that is the only way to survive.
Also, I dont see how you can include education majors, bz, unless schools suddenly stopped hiring teachers. You dumbasses
June 10th, 2008 at 02:10 pm
I should say business and science. Apparently according to most people here, thats all you can possibly do to stay afloat.
But F*** that. Do what you love and nothing less. And I seriously doubt that people major in business and kiss a CEO's ass because they love it and are passionate about customizing thier cubicle and wearing new and exciting ties to the office. Go ahead make fun of the creatives. At least they're happy.
I agree with the fact that the whole college thing is a scam, just another gold star on your report card, that happens to cost $40,000 (and yes, im just as guilty of playing along). Screw your GPA. If you seriously care about what your doing then thats all that counts.
June 10th, 2008 at 06:21 pm
i must admit that for such "educated" people, I shudder to think you take this seriously, almost amazes me that Americans buy into such bullshit. I love the American machine, which you are all nuts and bolts, fat, rusty, middle-grade nuts and bolts that claim you "work so hard" yet you probably have never done a real day's work in your lives. I really believe it to be true when I think that you all believe that the little piece of paper with your name on it, given to you like a "souvenir" that looks fancy but alas, loses its luxury after about say, a week. Your degree does not make you, it may make you part of a shitty life where you become part of the system that incorporates you to put work and money first, kids second, spouse third, and you'll hardly ever see your family again. You'll miss your mum's funeral, and you'll forget cousins, nieces/nephews, and you'll become a workaholic while hardly doing any real strenuous work. You'll create/be given bullshit titles to make it seem like what you do is important, when really you're doing about as much as the guy working in Fast Food, probably he's getting better wages/insurance than you are!
Here's the funniest part though: The illegal immigrant who can hardly speak a word of english, who fixes your A/C is making around the same amount of money as you! And guess what? He doesn't have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to pay back. So despite your so-called degree, and the supposedly nice job you've received, in the end, it's a little bit better work for the same exact amount of pay some half-witted jock makes flipping burgers or fixing heaters
June 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Best degree ever: Fine Art- you take all of the computer classes. Graduate, then get a high-starting wage job as a Flash Designer, and Laugh at all of your unemployed, economic majoring buddies who are unemployed!
June 11th, 2008 at 01:43 am
Music Therapy has applications with autistic children. It can be used to stimulate lower functioning children into speaking. But of course, that also goes with psychology, behaviour study, and ability to teach. Also, most don't want to help autistic children
June 11th, 2008 at 01:44 am
i'm a communications major. i just graduated. i will be working as a pharmaceutical sales rep. oh...and i'll be making 60k, driving a free car...and not paying for my gas...haha...boo to your list!
June 11th, 2008 at 03:36 am
The most common question a music therapist will be asked is "What is music therapy anyway?" I have a feeling you didn't ask anyone because it is apparent that you really have no clue what it is all about. i suggest you do some research and stop by some of these websites like www.musictherapy.org, www.austmta.org.au/, http://www.musictherapyworld.de/modules/emtc/e_index1.php, or www.musictherapy.ca/. These are just four professional orginaizations around the world that would be very helpful in conveying the true ideals of music therapy to you. Let me just make mention of the applications of this type of therapy: Neonatal intensive care, mentally ill, the physically handicapped, those who have been abused, the elderly including those suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia, the terminally ill, the mentally retarded and the developmentally delayed, the traumatically brain injured, those with learning disabilities, stroke victims, Rehabilitation, Autism, the list could be continued. I wish you could talk to the mother of an 8 year old autistic child who has just heard him say "I love you" for the first time during a therapy session. Or perhaps talk with the wife of a Alzheimer's patient whose residual music memory helped him to reacall who she was and sing her 'their song' one last time before he passed away. As far as "Summer Jams 95" is concerned, I would be willing to help you work through the pain and anger of your underage alcoholism and profound bad taste in music. But please really research this stuff before you pass judgment, one day you very well may fall into one of thoes catagories and need a good dose of music therapy for your mind, body and soul.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The fact that you think music therapy is just setting mood music in the old folks home is absolutely rediculous. Music therapists go through intense training in school, a 6 month internship, and then take an exam to become board certified. Music therapy is one of the growing jobs out there unlike your common sit behind a desk jobs that are fizzling. Music therapists are actually helping people. Music therapy is a scientific, research based practice that is constantly in partnership with other modalities not for our own benefit but to help benefit the individuals that we work with. If you have never helped a child with autism speak, helped a cancer patient ease their pain, worked with a person in a mental health hospital to become more socially acceptable, or found ways to help the alzheimer's patient remember their families names, who they are, and become less aggressive, then you can not say that music therapy is making a mixed tape. As I said, we are research based and while we use music to help people, it's the therapeutic function of how we use it that makes us the professionals. Unless you have the credentials of a music therapist DO NOT say that you are one because you can play music. You are commiting a huge wrong to society. Quit writing this kind of trash. The other majors you listed also have more promise than you obviously have any clue about. Once again, Quit writing this trash. Do your research. Observe. Then I'll talk to you..
June 11th, 2008 at 06:33 pm
Fuck you, stupid retard!
June 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
awesome, i'm doing a double major in philosophy and english lit. it's a lot of work. meanie. ;P.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:19 am
For the idiot who said getting a social work degree was worthless, I've got a little dose of reality for you. Unless you decide to go to Harvard or some other ultra expensive private college, getting your master's degree in social work is not going to cost you $400,000. You can go to any major state university and get your BSW and MSW for a total of $50,000 max. I got my master's in SW 10 years ago and paid a total of $33,000 for undergrad and grad school at that time. I now make $95,000 a year (I'll admit the average social worker in my city makes closer to $60,000, but that's still a decent wage). So, take your ignorant comments and stick them where the sun doesn't shine.
June 12th, 2008 at 05:59 am
FUCK YOU
boondock saints is an awesome movie...i stopped reading the whole article after you made that comment you piece of shit
June 12th, 2008 at 03:53 pm
You can major in almost anything and get into a good law school. Especially English Lit, Latin, Philosophy, and Art History.
June 12th, 2008 at 07:11 pm
I hear a lot of people bashing people who work in cubicles all day (Which is understandable, its not fun), but i dont hear too many people saying that they "followed there passion" in college and got a job doing something they love that isnt a cube job or teaching.
I got a useful major and took liberal arts classes i enjoyed liked Philosophy, European Politics, American History, Photography, etc. Thats the beauty of Americas education system.
June 12th, 2008 at 08:29 pm
There isn't a degree that is, by itself, worth anything. It's where you got it and who you got to know while you were there. Brownnose your best-known profs. Kiss ass unmercifully. They can often help you get your first job through their contacts. If they haven't got any contacts, you've been sucking up to the wrong dude!
Network your ass off in dorms, frats, sororities, organizations, the college newspaper, etc. All of this will definitely pay off. The schmucks you're in school with right now will someday become actual PEOPLE. A few of them will get good jobs and will be able to hire your ass into their companies. Never never never make an enemy in college. Don't be smarmy about it, but do favors for folks; never bitch about or gossip about anyone, even if they are the worst shitheads you've ever met. Leave 'em liking you.
This will pay off again and again throughout your life.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Major in blogging. yeah! I want that! Coast all the way!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
I need a degree-any offers? Not kidding for the most part...then again, maybe I am and obfustacating for fun? Whadda' think and why even bother, brother and sister? You're OK or maybe so, so...SO?! What's it about , if not the journey and bathroom fixtures of existence? I Guess, therefore, I must BE...tee hee hee Go team Go-Gee Whiz and that's what it Is...anyway or thereabouts I think and that makes the difference or provides the ride with accourtments and diversions from tomorrows despair and after that, death...Hey enjoy! It's a short and savage ride and the upside is used cars are cheaper in the end and from the beginning-what's true is what is perceived and agreed upon for your own edification and benefit...YoYoMaPa...Doubts are not too good for the ecomomy or your happiness! Deny everything...Don't Think Twice...bye bye baby bye bye
June 13th, 2008 at 07:20 am
Hello to everyone. Re. music therapy, my band mate got into it and I have never seen a man so fulfilled. He worked with mainly blind and/or deaf disabled adults and I too saw them smile and react. By the way, I found this site very funny. Take care all and bye bye to everyone.
June 13th, 2008 at 09:21 pm
what the hell? no comments about nazis yet?
June 14th, 2008 at 03:39 am
I have to say communications majors may know how to communicate, but they just don't know what they are communicating about. I know numerous comm majors who are working dead end jobs with a comm degree from a quality private university.
June 14th, 2008 at 03:54 pm
to the person who spoke about umass turf grass management:
i'm not in stockbridge [the school that has it], but i knew people who were in it. that school cranks out more millionaires than most ivy leagues. people pay ridiculous sums of money to have their million dollar golf courses cut perfectly. it's a pretty good deal for a two-year school. one of the people i knew had his own lawn cutting business since he was 15, and the only reason he was in school was that he needed a college degree in order to get the kinds of government loans he wanted.
sounds like a pretty good deal to me. two years of high school geography and botany classes in exchange for becoming a millionaire?
also, communication can go both ways. there are people who make it and become CEOs, and then there are the drama club kids in high school who want to work in tv and end up with cats.
June 14th, 2008 at 04:37 pm
To: Anorexic Ginger
I don't know where you get your figures from, but social workers don't earn 18,000/year. Well, at least not around my neighborhood.
They earn almost 45,000/year.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
My sister has had the same major of communications for god knows how long and the description fits her so perfectly that I couldn't believe it! That's so hilarious!!!!
June 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
So, let me guess. You have an MBA?
You are a dumbass. It is obvious, you did no research and this is an opinion piece.
Therefore I will treat it as such and end this comment here.
June 15th, 2008 at 01:09 am
Why on earth is Draco Malfoy the Latin picture????
June 15th, 2008 at 01:50 am
What a worthless, pointless, meaningless article. Just what was your major? Business?
June 15th, 2008 at 03:05 am
Art History major = plenty of jobs: art dealer, art therapist, museum curator, art history professor with a PhD, photojournalist, art director, retail buyer, advertising...seriously the list goes on.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Have you ever read 'MUSICOPHILIA' by Oliver Sacks ['Awakenings', etc. for the uneducated]
Music Therapy is pretty powerful sh....tuff!!!
June 15th, 2008 at 04:43 pm
The idiot who wrote this crap will be lucky to get out out 9th grade.
June 15th, 2008 at 05:51 pm
As for the dance degree, I majored in dance, and have a job teaching dance at a middle school as an alternative for PE. So not being able to find a job is not true, plus, now with the popularity of cruise lines that set sail year round, there are hundreds of jobs dancing on cruise lines, not to mention the theme parks and local dance studios. Dance is also becoming recognized in physical therapy and ballet is used in all professional sports especially football, so sit there and say there are no jobs, thats just being too ignorant to actually think about what you are writing and doing research.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
so, all i have to say is that whoever wrote this should have atleast done a small amount of research first. I have a degree in Art History. There is far more you can do with that degree than just work at an art gallery or museum. First of all, as for the job of curator; all museums have a cheif curator and a staff below them for each department. Some museums have a curatorial staff of 10 or more for just one area of art (such as Egyptian art). There are also multiple other jobs available in museums such as exhibit director/designer, exhibit instulation, colletions manager, archives, conservationist, preservation, administration, educational programs offered in the museum. Outside of teh realm of museums and galleries, if you open your mind a little past the obvious job courses. An art History degree can land a person other types of jobs such as at auction houses, professor at a university, write for a multitude of art magazines and catalogues, artist representative, antique dealer, publishing, art & estate appraiser, art investment, art law, if a student considers a second degree in law. The FBI maintains a 12-person Art Crime Team which investigates art thefts and fraud; so a job in law enforcement is an option. As well as governmental agency jobs such as the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Just to name a few. So Please, if some is considering art history as a career path, don't be swayed by an uneducated opinion by someone who clearly has no knowledge on the subject. You have job options.
June 16th, 2008 at 05:43 am
You obviously won't work in the movie business if you think Boondock Saints sucked. I suppose Tarantino and Aronovsky suck too.
June 16th, 2008 at 09:53 am
so true
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