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.
hmmm...I have an english degree and a communications degree...and I'm making a pretty decent living in public relations. so....pppppbbbbtttt! Granted, I owe about enough in student loans that won't be paid off until I'm about 60.
I NEVER WENT TO COLLEGE SO I DRIVE A TRUCK HAULING NEW CARS FOR A UNION COMPANY. I MAKE $85K EASILY BUT I REALLY DO WISH I HAD GONE TO SCHOOL FOR ALL THAT PUSSY THAT WAS AROUND, AND THEN GOT MY CDL AFTER GETTING A "PIMPING UNDERGRADUATE MASTERS DEGREE".
MY BROTHER STUDIED HARD AND EVENTUALLY GOT HIS MASTERS FROM NORTHWESTERN AND HIS PREVIOUS COMPANY PAID FRO IT, HAHAHAHAHAA. NOW HE IS THE CFO OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY SO I GUESS GOING TO SCHOOL DOES WORK, BUT AN ACCOUNTING MASTERS HAS TO HAVE SOMEONE WITH BRAINS BEHIND IT, LIKE HIM.
MY SISTER SPENT THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN COLLEGE TO BECOME A TEACHER AND IT'S SAD THAT SHE'LL TOP OUT AT WHAT I STARTED AT AND I"M ONLY THREE YEARS INTO MY CURRENT JOB.
MY OTHER BROTHER HAS TWO DEGREES AND IS A POTHEAD AND DOESN'T DO SHIT BUT SMOKE POT. THAT'S A NICE LIFE TILL YOU REALIZE YOUR ALMOST 40, YOU DON'T HAVE A WIFE OR KIDS OR ANYONE ELSE THAT "REALLY" CARES ABOUT YOU, AND YOUR BEST FRIEND IS SOME LOSER A LITTLE OVER HALF YOUR AGE THAT IS GOING TO END UP THE SAME WAY.
JUST TO CLEAR THINGS UP,....................I'M HOME EVERYDAY FOR MY JOB AND I'M NOT SOME FAT UNBATHED OUT FOR MONTHS AT A TIME HOMO TRUCKER LIKE YOU WISH I WAS. I'M THAT GUY IN THE BENZ NAILING YOUR WOMAN WHILE YOUR OUT MAKING THAT $40K THAT BARELY PAYS THE BILLS. I ALSO OWN TWO HOUSE, MULTIPLE CARS, AND OTHER PEOPLES WOMEN ON A LEASE. ENJOY.
Criminal Justice degrees and Paralegal degrees are also a waste. I have an Associates in Paralegal Studies from a technical college and a Bachelors in Criminal Justice from a 4 year University. If you want to be a security guard fine, make under 10.00 an hour, and live on the system for food stamps.
There are limited positions for this degree, im serious, oh and I already had the Private Investigator license prior to college, which I received through work experience. Private Investigations is very dangerous, litigious and can be down right criminal if you are not careful.
Hmm, maybe I will go back to school for another 4 years and spend another 35,000.00.
these guys get paid for everyone of us that reads this page
give writing to them...they get money for every click
congrats to the authors..i would love to learns how to make a list that pisses people off enough that you can make money for everytime they need to rant at you
I am a communications major - graduated four years ago. I frantically chose that degree after being an art major for 2 1/2 years, then freaking that I might not make it as an artist. I thought I was at risk for sleeping beneath an interstate overpass. Well, as I sit here in my gray-walled cubicle with no natural light in sight, I can thank my so-called 'exciting' communications degree for delivering me to my secretarial position, which is a waste of my knowledge and creativity. Based on my experience, I believe communications should only be pursued by those specifically interested in either journalism or public relations. Any time I've had the opportunity to share my experiences with those thinking about going to college, I make sure to give them a truthful account of those experiences in relation to where I am today.
I am now going back to school for registered nursing, with the belief that I can make a difference in someone's life, and also make enough money that I can start a side business as an artist and support my husband's carpentry business, too. And pay off my enormous student loan debt, of course...
I believe this list is mostly accurate. Its not so much that these majors are useless, its just that they are so easy to pass that everyone chooses it for lack of creativity, drive, or vision.
To the above ppl that believe otherwise and claim that they have the most lucrative jobs in the world, think of it this way...had you not gone to college for your useless degree, could you possibly do your job still? I think more times than not, the answer would be yes. You few are the exceptions to the rule. You are lucky or perhaps genius, but make no mistake your major in comm, phil, poli, etc did nothing to advance your career. You really know nothing more than a half way decent High school student. All the ppl that end up in "administrative assistants" (your a secretary, much like the sanitation engineer is a janitor).
Lets not talk about the few that made it but the majority of these majors floundering in dead end jobs. I am extremely biased and somewhat of a numbers man. Its all about probability. I chose engineering and just out of college i live well and debt free (much like the rest of my engineering bretherin).
Music anything is pretty much a worthless degree. You work your ASS off for four to five years (six if you go to a small school and if you like the bar a little too much....) and then get into the real world and see people like britney spears and gwen stefani making the big bucks in the money field. Even if you get an education certificate, so many schools are cutting and/or completely dropping their music education departments that you'll probably not find a decent job in any place worth living. Only if you're very lucky, good at your craft, and probably highly attractive will you be able to move on in the performance area. But other wise, have fun moving up the ladder at Arby's.
Alright so I am a Lit. Major and although this has basicly already been said I must say that anyone who thinks that any of these degrees are easy and a free pass is out of their mind. The problem with this country is that we only measure intelegence and worth by money, math, and science. If it wasnt for literature and philosophy your fortune 500 companties would cease to exist. I'm not saying I have the most useful major by itself but lit and philosophy are some of the most basic pre. to go on to higher degrees and control your companies. Further more most other countries veiw majors like music, dance, and languages as some of the most useful degrees. Who do you trust... a person who can read, or a person who actually understands what they are reading. All majors are useful and this list is truly biased and had no thought put into it beyond the initial "wow haha I'm to lazy to use my own brain so these are dumb!"
Wow. Music therapy is a very well respected major. There's is actually a lot of research to prove it. You obviously don't go to college because then maybe you'd learn a thing or two about other people's major.
Every major you can think of has research that proves its respectability. Does that mean that you should run out and get a degree in Dance or Surfboarding?
Get with the program. Music therapy is a vocational program, not a pursuit of higher learning.
Not everyone is able to get into a prestigious and prosperous career such as blogging. Not to mention how impressive it is to women...
Some of us can only be blog commenters as we strive for the excellence achieved only by someone who was able to develop a following of readers, who after 2 weeks at their local community college, realized that higher education was not necessary anyway.
Hmm...I graduated with an art history degree, and have lived all over the world cos of it. I worked for many years at Christies of London for starters, then was able to pick and choose jobs from a huge list of offerings after that. My daughter was a communications major and has worked for many large companies since her graduation. To say that she is 'upwardly mobile' is an understatement. My ex husband was an English lit major for his undergrad degree, he has since gone on to get his PHD and teaches at a very prestigious university. Please, there are only worthless people, not worthless degrees. Exactly what degrees do YOU feel are worth having, if I may be so bold as to ask?
"Also, many in the film world will not take you seriously if you HAVEN’T attended film school. They want to know you’re serious, and don’t need tons of extra training.
Just sayin."
LOL. On the contrary I've met people who say they specifically throw away resumes from film school grads. Reason being- they are afraid that the person will think they know everything because they went to film school and are now some egotistical etc. etc. and already calls themselves a director just for doing one short. They'd actually just rather hire someone who didn't go to film school and is willing to admit what they know and don't know. Also, they're likely to work HARDER to compensate for not going to film school. I've also heard many a story about being laughed at after disclosing they either just got out of film school or are still in it. Disclaimer: Film school is for a certain type of person. If it works for you, then great. However, I've never heard of anyone holding the fact that you didn't go to film school against you.
Just for fun, here is one of my favorite quotes regarding film school:
(Peter Hyams talking to Syracuse film students)
-“Ok, let me ask you something. When you guys get out into the film industry, what do you think your first job will be?”
-“I’ll tell you. You’re going to work on a film set and you’re probably going to be doing something stupid and menial, like making sandwiches. And once you’ve worked on that set for two or three months, you’re going to learn everything about film that everyone else has learned in school.”
-“So what you have to ask yourselves is this: can you make sandwiches as well as those kids from USC and UCLA?”
I think it's so sad that many of the commentors profess to be college graduates, yet don't know the difference between the plural and possessive forms of so many words.
This is so amusing. Realisic people, being beseiged by idealists who love the rewards of their music therapy part/time job, and must spend 13 paragraphs trying to sell me on it. Then the communications or business majors, who, despite what they may claim, are not getting a Bachelor's Degree in Comm. and getting a job that they aren't juiced into. Business majors:you are the sheep tha follow sheep. You will not find work.
Advertising, marketing,,you people are pure evil, and care about nothing. Marketing is definitely the dirtiest, most repulsive major. Just tattoo 'Biggot' on your forehead.
The trick is this: The drones who want to make a decent living, so they can afford a 'nice house' and 'two nice cars', will do well in Accounting. But you have to be willing to be a total slave in a cubicle.
Those who study religion (unless they study geo-politics and are not out to push more of these ridiculous books written by their 'God and Saviour' on the youth of this country, but rather study the religions in an attempt to free people from religion) are utter lunatics. There is no truth to you religion. Wake up. You've been played by the oldest division method ever.
I, personally, realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I would have to find a very non-traditional school. Then, still recognizing it was going to be a bureaucratic nightmare, a lot of bullsh8t I didnt need tacked on at the last minute, and I would have to deal with them trying to deny transfrs from a school that offered the same 100 and 200 level corses they require, before you move into your area of expertise.
I joined the A.C.L.U. because I was told I had ADD at 15. That allowed me to acquire an attorney, and let her deal with the administraion in charge of 'learning disabilities.
I'm bi-sexual, so that was another fear anchor, that was hardly embarassing at a liberal arts school geared towards the Arts, modern and classic, and Multi-media technology.
I immediately established myself with the Anti-defamation league, alhough I am not Jewish.
After a year of attempts, I recieved a letter from Rev. Louis Farakhan, verifying my rare capacity to establish loyalty, through understanding truth through empathy and personal experience.
None of those things are lies. In fact, they are what I'm in school for. I needed a vehicle, to show square society (i.e., a B.A.), so they would assess credibility to the career I already had a mass of knowledge and personal experience in, before going to college.
It has been very much tailored to my interests and I 'll have a job with my choice of companies that deal in what I do. This is because I started networking with people in the city (a big city), who were establshed, as soon as I moved here.
You can make your bullsh7t college experience more than it could ever be, but you have to know what you want and you have to dodge red tape at all costs.
Wow i wish i was as naive and arrogant as the asshole who came up with this list! It’s sad that we assign value to a degree based upon what kind of job you can get with it! Some people go to college to expand there mind and grow wiser or to just do something they enjoy…I really don’t see how you can call that worthless!!
well, you forgot teaching these things to other people who want to teach these things...and it just goes on and on in a pointless but entertaining cycle
i think i know the guy in the first picture - the smoking one.
his name is chris meyers and is slightly gothic (pierced his nipples for fuck's sake) and he teaches art in a bloody CHRISTIAN school.
how fucking ironic is that.
if thats not him well it sure looks ike him hahaa
USELESS MAJORS? HOW ABOUT THINKING A FUCKING DEGREE IS ALL YOU FUCKING NEED IN LIFE.
SCIENCE MAJORS BROUGHT THE WORLD NAPALM, THE NUKE, THALIDOMIDE, VIOXX, ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS, DIOXIN
FUCK OFF YOU IDIOT
99.99999% OF THE HUMAN RACE ARE MINDLESS WAGE SLAVES REGARDLESS OF WHAT FUCKING 'EDUCATION' THEY CLAIM TO HAVE FROM A COLLEGE.
I'VE LEARNED MORE BY MYSELF ONLINE THAN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. IN JUST TWO YEARS WHEN I HAD CANCER AND WAS ONLINE ALL DAY, I LEARNED MORE THAN YOUR SHIT EATING FUCKING GRIN COULD EVER LEARN.
I CHEATED DEATH, NOW I AM GONNA CHEAT YOUR USELESS ELITIST FUCKING WAGE SLAVE ASS YOU CUNT.
FUCKING PUTTING DOWN PEOPLES' MAJORS.... WHAT AN ASSHOLE MAN.
FUCKING MARKETING MAJOR.... EVILEST CUNTING SHIT IN THE WORLD, RESPONSIBLE FOR MASS SUICIDE, MILLIONS OF NEUROTIC TEENAGE CRASH DIETERS....THE FUCKING OBESITY EPIDEMIC ALSO
FUCKING GET A DEGREE IN STAYING THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY
I'M YET TO SEE ANY 'QUALIFICATION' I AM IMPRESSED BY.
IT IS ALL ABOUT IF YOU'VE GOT PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BEFORE YOU DIE.
I FUCKING HOPE THE CUNT WHO WRITE THIS BLOG POST GETS A CIGARETTE PUT OUT ON HIS CORNEA.
Ha. Has the blogger been to college? does he/she know that the main thing college teaches someone is responsibility, how to live outside your parent's basement (where they probably blog from) and to follow your passion? You know what, go ahead, major in Business. Enjoy being a corperate slave in a cubicle under the watchful hum of flourescent lights. I'll be "playing pretend" as one commenter said on stage, eking out a meager existance and doing what I love every day. Work to live? Nope, if you do what you love, you Live to Work. (byt the way, a philisophy major is a great way to get into law, like a lawyer) So, please, don't let this guy/gal discourage you when you're picking a focus for school. Follow your passion, work your ass off, and you'll make it. As long as you don't type in all caps...
We, the staff of Wake Forest University, sincerely hope this information is not taken seriously by the good parents of children in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticutt. While we freely admit we have more than our share of alumni in the coffee service industry, we feel strongly that $150,000 for four years of pandering to their snotty little brats is still a bargain in this day and age. Plus, every hundred years or so we actually win a sporting event. Fun is had by all.
Original reponse :I would say Social Work is the most expensive useless degree. $200,000 education so you can make $18,000 and live in the worst neighborhoods in the country. Just go to community college. And the worst are the women who then go back and get their masters in social work. $400,000 education total to make at the most $24,000 your whole life.
Reply from daniel b. lehrman, MSW .. Regarding the Masters degree; as is true in any profession, there is a wide range of people that "go to the top", "stayin the middle" and are at the "lower ends" of the socioeconomic spectrum. So, in essence, the potential to make in excess of 100,000 per year is there, as is the reality that some will only nake 24, 000 per year. I would concur that this is not a bell curve, (income)but there are some similarities. One of the most important considerations in going into any "helping" profession, is to know if this is what one really wants to do. Healthcare providers of all degrewes, (MD's and the like) have left in droves in the last 10 years, secondary to the maddness of mismanaged managed care, combined with many other unfortunate variables. I will say, that social work as a profession is one of the most misunderstood professions in the USA, secondary to the extremely wide variation of roles and tasks that those in this work place environment play, including, but not limited to becoming members of Congress, and so on. My final words are these; the chances of not earning a solid income to meet the current demands of our economy, where the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, in the field of social work, are very, very genuine. This is because, as is well known, the assaults (financially and otherwise) that are being committed to our dwindling middle class, are severe. On the other hand, Licensed socialworkers, say in the state of California, who work in prisons, can and do earn 100,000 per year. Work for the Red Cross, and you are at the bottom. Nothing is easy . Daniel :)
Huh. I find this information misleading, I live in New York City, have worked in Paris (2 years} and in Italy for 2 as well. I make 90K a year. Oh, guess what was my major both in Graduate and Undergraduate school? Art History with multiple minors in French, Italian and German. Bottom line is that you have to be willing to do the work required to be successful. Never settle for less when you feel you can have more. Also remember, no pain, no gain. Who would have ever imagined that Mr Gibelli, now 35yo would be living in an ample apartment on the Upper West Side and regularly travel the world and look and study beautiful things? I owe it all to one of the most "worthless" careers: Art History. Oh, and by the way, I'm not lucky, or had good contacts, I am simply dedicated, love what I do and make it my business to see that my goals follow through.
dude!, i luvz the bong ur hitting out of! make me one!
& another bad major... tv/radio broadcasting...
dont need to know all that crap they "teach" you...
u just need to know how to kill time, tell time & make up
a bunch of sh*t along the way!!! :)
Don't underestimate philosophy - it teaches critical thinking which is the most powerful tool you can have in any employment situation. I've worked as a management consultant and I am headed into private equity earning $200K+ as a 24 year old - philosophy is the most important thing you can study. Famous philosophers include George Soros, Carl Icahn, etc. etc.
Add Bachelors in Nutrition to that list. Unless you are lucky enough to get and complete and intern, it's completely useless. I even asked my professor what I jobs Im qualified for with this degree...nothing was her response.
With English Lit you can get a game development degree where you learn computer programming, modeling and the business side of games which is currently a great career. Not that many people have the degree due to it being expensive for the college to run, most allow a maximum of fifteen students to do the course and only three colleges in the whole of Britain offer the degree.
KC Says:
June 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I have a degree in Accounting and yes, you can get a job with it. However, unless your dream job is staring at a computer all-day around menopausal women who graduated from online universities with the same degree as you, then don’t pursue it.
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KC that is where sitting for and passing the CPA exam takes you from being an amateur to a professional. I am surprised you forgot to mention if you have taken the CPA exam, every accounting major and finance major knows that you need to take the CPA exam after getting your accounting degree. It would be like going to law school and then plan not to take the Bar exam. For you engineering majors it would be like receiving an engineering degree and not taking your PE exam, which some engineers do and still get hired as soon as the graduate. It sounds like you have a book entry job rather then an accounting job.
First of all... it's "CUE" the bitching... not "que," or "queue," or "queueueueueueue," or anything else.
I'm an acting major. Where is acting? I thought for sure it would be on here.
"International Relations," "International Business," or "International Affairs," is probably an up-and-coming most useless major. It just screams, "I WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD!"
Criminal Justice should have been on here as well. Anything that they can teach you in 2 years at ITT Tech or DeVry is not exactly what I would call a "good major."
Very much enjoyed the visual for Latin majors. Perhaps as a useless acting major I will get to meet Tom one of these days.
And for those of you who were complaining, this is a joke. Y'all are gaaaaaaaay, bro.
dang john sounds like you are trying to convince someone of your worth. are you trying to convince mom? dad? or trying to convince yourself? yeah i think thats it. you can really see who the insecure ones are when they post in defense of their majors. really? thats lame.
Ha! I really enjoyed the article, and you apparently have offended quite a few people/students! Since I finished a master's in rehab counseling and figured out that I loved school so much I wanted to work at a university (now THAT is the ideal job for people who never want to leave school!), I have come to see some of the ironies about education. It's not all that it used to be people, so wake up! Degrees don't pay what you and I were told...it's really rare the people graduate and have nice jobs waiting for them after a bachelor's degree, and that is the truth. Why do you think we have "career centers" at universities now? Because everyone is finding jobs? No! Because in order to keep the revenue coming in and keeping my paycheck above inflation we need to make sure people graduate and at least SOME of them get jobs outside of the fastfood industry. Education is one of those things that is both mandatory and sometimes worthless...I really despise the business model that most educational institutions are adopting now...nice article about a real issue in America today....
June 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am
@LOL - Ya the quality of life is so much better in Europe! You guys have more than 2x our unemployment rate, lower wages with higher taxes, race riots (your integration of Muslims really speaks to your superior culture), societies with no social mobility (your last name determines the entire course of your life), very little innovation, decaying social programs, a negative population growth rate and so on and so forth."
The UK has lower unemployment than the US. And im pretty sure Western Europe does not have twice the unemployment rate of the US. Lower wages is not true either. According to the tax calculators i found, someone earning $100k/year in the UK only pays $2k per year more in tax and a further $6k National Insurance. That insurance will cover their entire family. Can an American cover their entire family for less than $600/month (and pay nothing for their childrens presciptions)..
There were no "race riots". Young French people rioted and a number of them were Muslim since the rioters lived in a poor area and were angry at the conditions they were surrounded with. Nothing to do with race. The other "riot" were Muslims angry with the cartoon drawings. Again, nothing to do with race or Europeans. If anything you should be complaining about Muslims.
Social mobility? Are you serious. Europeans can live and work anywhere in Europe, tomorrow if they wanted. No troubles at all. Some Americans dont even leave the town they were born in and are forced to join the army to "see the world". The thing about your last name controlling your destiny is BS too. LOL. What century are you living in??
Very little innovation? Britain has twice as many Nobel Prize winners as the US does per capita and Sweden has three times as many. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research is currently building the world's largest particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. The European Space Agency has been active since 1975. Oh and lets not forget the fact the most technologically advanced sport on the planet, Formula One, is European focused with the majority of technicians being British.
Decaying social programs? You mean like Italy and France taking the top two positions on the World Health Organisation healthcare rankings.
Declining populations? What the hell does that have to do with anything?
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July 4th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
hmmm...I have an english degree and a communications degree...and I'm making a pretty decent living in public relations. so....pppppbbbbtttt! Granted, I owe about enough in student loans that won't be paid off until I'm about 60.
July 5th, 2008 at 06:32 pm
Ouch. Well, that is not the major I chosen for college, but at least I know now which major and/or minor to avoid.
July 5th, 2008 at 08:56 pm
The thing you forgot is that with almost any subject, if you go far enough with your degree you can probably end up teaching it.
July 7th, 2008 at 07:29 am
I NEVER WENT TO COLLEGE SO I DRIVE A TRUCK HAULING NEW CARS FOR A UNION COMPANY. I MAKE $85K EASILY BUT I REALLY DO WISH I HAD GONE TO SCHOOL FOR ALL THAT PUSSY THAT WAS AROUND, AND THEN GOT MY CDL AFTER GETTING A "PIMPING UNDERGRADUATE MASTERS DEGREE".
July 7th, 2008 at 07:33 am
MY BROTHER STUDIED HARD AND EVENTUALLY GOT HIS MASTERS FROM NORTHWESTERN AND HIS PREVIOUS COMPANY PAID FRO IT, HAHAHAHAHAA. NOW HE IS THE CFO OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY SO I GUESS GOING TO SCHOOL DOES WORK, BUT AN ACCOUNTING MASTERS HAS TO HAVE SOMEONE WITH BRAINS BEHIND IT, LIKE HIM.
July 7th, 2008 at 07:35 am
MY SISTER SPENT THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN COLLEGE TO BECOME A TEACHER AND IT'S SAD THAT SHE'LL TOP OUT AT WHAT I STARTED AT AND I"M ONLY THREE YEARS INTO MY CURRENT JOB.
July 7th, 2008 at 07:38 am
MY OTHER BROTHER HAS TWO DEGREES AND IS A POTHEAD AND DOESN'T DO SHIT BUT SMOKE POT. THAT'S A NICE LIFE TILL YOU REALIZE YOUR ALMOST 40, YOU DON'T HAVE A WIFE OR KIDS OR ANYONE ELSE THAT "REALLY" CARES ABOUT YOU, AND YOUR BEST FRIEND IS SOME LOSER A LITTLE OVER HALF YOUR AGE THAT IS GOING TO END UP THE SAME WAY.
July 7th, 2008 at 07:41 am
JUST TO CLEAR THINGS UP,....................I'M HOME EVERYDAY FOR MY JOB AND I'M NOT SOME FAT UNBATHED OUT FOR MONTHS AT A TIME HOMO TRUCKER LIKE YOU WISH I WAS. I'M THAT GUY IN THE BENZ NAILING YOUR WOMAN WHILE YOUR OUT MAKING THAT $40K THAT BARELY PAYS THE BILLS. I ALSO OWN TWO HOUSE, MULTIPLE CARS, AND OTHER PEOPLES WOMEN ON A LEASE. ENJOY.
July 7th, 2008 at 02:21 pm
IM AM VERY MUCH OFFENED ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS!!!!!
July 7th, 2008 at 02:35 pm
Ok, so now, go ahead with TEN MOST USEFUL MAJORS!
July 7th, 2008 at 08:43 pm
kegan: my cousin got a musical theatre degree and is now on broadway. definitely not useless.
July 7th, 2008 at 09:26 pm
Criminal Justice degrees and Paralegal degrees are also a waste. I have an Associates in Paralegal Studies from a technical college and a Bachelors in Criminal Justice from a 4 year University. If you want to be a security guard fine, make under 10.00 an hour, and live on the system for food stamps.
There are limited positions for this degree, im serious, oh and I already had the Private Investigator license prior to college, which I received through work experience. Private Investigations is very dangerous, litigious and can be down right criminal if you are not careful.
Hmm, maybe I will go back to school for another 4 years and spend another 35,000.00.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Bitching was qued. Set sail to "wtf this is bullshit" island.
July 8th, 2008 at 01:44 am
these guys get paid for everyone of us that reads this page
give writing to them...they get money for every click
congrats to the authors..i would love to learns how to make a list that pisses people off enough that you can make money for everytime they need to rant at you
July 8th, 2008 at 02:48 pm
I am a communications major - graduated four years ago. I frantically chose that degree after being an art major for 2 1/2 years, then freaking that I might not make it as an artist. I thought I was at risk for sleeping beneath an interstate overpass. Well, as I sit here in my gray-walled cubicle with no natural light in sight, I can thank my so-called 'exciting' communications degree for delivering me to my secretarial position, which is a waste of my knowledge and creativity. Based on my experience, I believe communications should only be pursued by those specifically interested in either journalism or public relations. Any time I've had the opportunity to share my experiences with those thinking about going to college, I make sure to give them a truthful account of those experiences in relation to where I am today.
I am now going back to school for registered nursing, with the belief that I can make a difference in someone's life, and also make enough money that I can start a side business as an artist and support my husband's carpentry business, too. And pay off my enormous student loan debt, of course...
July 8th, 2008 at 05:27 pm
I believe this list is mostly accurate. Its not so much that these majors are useless, its just that they are so easy to pass that everyone chooses it for lack of creativity, drive, or vision.
To the above ppl that believe otherwise and claim that they have the most lucrative jobs in the world, think of it this way...had you not gone to college for your useless degree, could you possibly do your job still? I think more times than not, the answer would be yes. You few are the exceptions to the rule. You are lucky or perhaps genius, but make no mistake your major in comm, phil, poli, etc did nothing to advance your career. You really know nothing more than a half way decent High school student. All the ppl that end up in "administrative assistants" (your a secretary, much like the sanitation engineer is a janitor).
Lets not talk about the few that made it but the majority of these majors floundering in dead end jobs. I am extremely biased and somewhat of a numbers man. Its all about probability. I chose engineering and just out of college i live well and debt free (much like the rest of my engineering bretherin).
July 8th, 2008 at 08:09 pm
Music anything is pretty much a worthless degree. You work your ASS off for four to five years (six if you go to a small school and if you like the bar a little too much....) and then get into the real world and see people like britney spears and gwen stefani making the big bucks in the money field. Even if you get an education certificate, so many schools are cutting and/or completely dropping their music education departments that you'll probably not find a decent job in any place worth living. Only if you're very lucky, good at your craft, and probably highly attractive will you be able to move on in the performance area. But other wise, have fun moving up the ladder at Arby's.
July 9th, 2008 at 07:09 am
Alright so I am a Lit. Major and although this has basicly already been said I must say that anyone who thinks that any of these degrees are easy and a free pass is out of their mind. The problem with this country is that we only measure intelegence and worth by money, math, and science. If it wasnt for literature and philosophy your fortune 500 companties would cease to exist. I'm not saying I have the most useful major by itself but lit and philosophy are some of the most basic pre. to go on to higher degrees and control your companies. Further more most other countries veiw majors like music, dance, and languages as some of the most useful degrees. Who do you trust... a person who can read, or a person who actually understands what they are reading. All majors are useful and this list is truly biased and had no thought put into it beyond the initial "wow haha I'm to lazy to use my own brain so these are dumb!"
July 10th, 2008 at 02:24 am
Wow. Music therapy is a very well respected major. There's is actually a lot of research to prove it. You obviously don't go to college because then maybe you'd learn a thing or two about other people's major.
May 19th, 2009 at 03:13 am
Every major you can think of has research that proves its respectability. Does that mean that you should run out and get a degree in Dance or Surfboarding?
Get with the program. Music therapy is a vocational program, not a pursuit of higher learning.
July 10th, 2008 at 09:54 am
Not everyone is able to get into a prestigious and prosperous career such as blogging. Not to mention how impressive it is to women...
Some of us can only be blog commenters as we strive for the excellence achieved only by someone who was able to develop a following of readers, who after 2 weeks at their local community college, realized that higher education was not necessary anyway.
July 10th, 2008 at 03:16 pm
This is just some idiot ranting.
July 11th, 2008 at 07:25 pm
Hmm...I graduated with an art history degree, and have lived all over the world cos of it. I worked for many years at Christies of London for starters, then was able to pick and choose jobs from a huge list of offerings after that. My daughter was a communications major and has worked for many large companies since her graduation. To say that she is 'upwardly mobile' is an understatement. My ex husband was an English lit major for his undergrad degree, he has since gone on to get his PHD and teaches at a very prestigious university. Please, there are only worthless people, not worthless degrees. Exactly what degrees do YOU feel are worth having, if I may be so bold as to ask?
July 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
"Also, many in the film world will not take you seriously if you HAVEN’T attended film school. They want to know you’re serious, and don’t need tons of extra training.
Just sayin."
LOL. On the contrary I've met people who say they specifically throw away resumes from film school grads. Reason being- they are afraid that the person will think they know everything because they went to film school and are now some egotistical etc. etc. and already calls themselves a director just for doing one short. They'd actually just rather hire someone who didn't go to film school and is willing to admit what they know and don't know. Also, they're likely to work HARDER to compensate for not going to film school. I've also heard many a story about being laughed at after disclosing they either just got out of film school or are still in it. Disclaimer: Film school is for a certain type of person. If it works for you, then great. However, I've never heard of anyone holding the fact that you didn't go to film school against you.
Just for fun, here is one of my favorite quotes regarding film school:
(Peter Hyams talking to Syracuse film students)
-“Ok, let me ask you something. When you guys get out into the film industry, what do you think your first job will be?”
-“I’ll tell you. You’re going to work on a film set and you’re probably going to be doing something stupid and menial, like making sandwiches. And once you’ve worked on that set for two or three months, you’re going to learn everything about film that everyone else has learned in school.”
-“So what you have to ask yourselves is this: can you make sandwiches as well as those kids from USC and UCLA?”
July 12th, 2008 at 01:50 am
first comment.
perfect.
tehe.
July 12th, 2008 at 08:26 pm
I think it's so sad that many of the commentors profess to be college graduates, yet don't know the difference between the plural and possessive forms of so many words.
July 13th, 2008 at 03:22 am
This is so amusing. Realisic people, being beseiged by idealists who love the rewards of their music therapy part/time job, and must spend 13 paragraphs trying to sell me on it. Then the communications or business majors, who, despite what they may claim, are not getting a Bachelor's Degree in Comm. and getting a job that they aren't juiced into. Business majors:you are the sheep tha follow sheep. You will not find work.
Advertising, marketing,,you people are pure evil, and care about nothing. Marketing is definitely the dirtiest, most repulsive major. Just tattoo 'Biggot' on your forehead.
The trick is this: The drones who want to make a decent living, so they can afford a 'nice house' and 'two nice cars', will do well in Accounting. But you have to be willing to be a total slave in a cubicle.
Those who study religion (unless they study geo-politics and are not out to push more of these ridiculous books written by their 'God and Saviour' on the youth of this country, but rather study the religions in an attempt to free people from religion) are utter lunatics. There is no truth to you religion. Wake up. You've been played by the oldest division method ever.
I, personally, realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I would have to find a very non-traditional school. Then, still recognizing it was going to be a bureaucratic nightmare, a lot of bullsh8t I didnt need tacked on at the last minute, and I would have to deal with them trying to deny transfrs from a school that offered the same 100 and 200 level corses they require, before you move into your area of expertise.
I joined the A.C.L.U. because I was told I had ADD at 15. That allowed me to acquire an attorney, and let her deal with the administraion in charge of 'learning disabilities.
I'm bi-sexual, so that was another fear anchor, that was hardly embarassing at a liberal arts school geared towards the Arts, modern and classic, and Multi-media technology.
I immediately established myself with the Anti-defamation league, alhough I am not Jewish.
After a year of attempts, I recieved a letter from Rev. Louis Farakhan, verifying my rare capacity to establish loyalty, through understanding truth through empathy and personal experience.
None of those things are lies. In fact, they are what I'm in school for. I needed a vehicle, to show square society (i.e., a B.A.), so they would assess credibility to the career I already had a mass of knowledge and personal experience in, before going to college.
It has been very much tailored to my interests and I 'll have a job with my choice of companies that deal in what I do. This is because I started networking with people in the city (a big city), who were establshed, as soon as I moved here.
You can make your bullsh7t college experience more than it could ever be, but you have to know what you want and you have to dodge red tape at all costs.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Are you someone with one of these degrees? If you took the time and effort to publish this, you must not have much of a productive lifestyle.
July 15th, 2008 at 02:27 am
Is it true John Popper majored in the harmonica ?
July 15th, 2008 at 03:44 pm
Wow i wish i was as naive and arrogant as the asshole who came up with this list! It’s sad that we assign value to a degree based upon what kind of job you can get with it! Some people go to college to expand there mind and grow wiser or to just do something they enjoy…I really don’t see how you can call that worthless!!
July 16th, 2008 at 01:35 am
well, you forgot teaching these things to other people who want to teach these things...and it just goes on and on in a pointless but entertaining cycle
July 16th, 2008 at 03:34 am
i think i know the guy in the first picture - the smoking one.
his name is chris meyers and is slightly gothic (pierced his nipples for fuck's sake) and he teaches art in a bloody CHRISTIAN school.
how fucking ironic is that.
if thats not him well it sure looks ike him hahaa
July 16th, 2008 at 02:54 pm
USELESS MAJORS? HOW ABOUT THINKING A FUCKING DEGREE IS ALL YOU FUCKING NEED IN LIFE.
SCIENCE MAJORS BROUGHT THE WORLD NAPALM, THE NUKE, THALIDOMIDE, VIOXX, ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS, DIOXIN
FUCK OFF YOU IDIOT
99.99999% OF THE HUMAN RACE ARE MINDLESS WAGE SLAVES REGARDLESS OF WHAT FUCKING 'EDUCATION' THEY CLAIM TO HAVE FROM A COLLEGE.
I'VE LEARNED MORE BY MYSELF ONLINE THAN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. IN JUST TWO YEARS WHEN I HAD CANCER AND WAS ONLINE ALL DAY, I LEARNED MORE THAN YOUR SHIT EATING FUCKING GRIN COULD EVER LEARN.
I CHEATED DEATH, NOW I AM GONNA CHEAT YOUR USELESS ELITIST FUCKING WAGE SLAVE ASS YOU CUNT.
FUCKING PUTTING DOWN PEOPLES' MAJORS.... WHAT AN ASSHOLE MAN.
FUCKING MARKETING MAJOR.... EVILEST CUNTING SHIT IN THE WORLD, RESPONSIBLE FOR MASS SUICIDE, MILLIONS OF NEUROTIC TEENAGE CRASH DIETERS....THE FUCKING OBESITY EPIDEMIC ALSO
FUCKING GET A DEGREE IN STAYING THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY
I'M YET TO SEE ANY 'QUALIFICATION' I AM IMPRESSED BY.
IT IS ALL ABOUT IF YOU'VE GOT PURPOSE IN YOUR LIFE, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BEFORE YOU DIE.
I FUCKING HOPE THE CUNT WHO WRITE THIS BLOG POST GETS A CIGARETTE PUT OUT ON HIS CORNEA.
FUCK YOU UPPITY FUCKING ELITIST CUNT.
WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING MAJOR?
A YOU A FUCKING HEART SURGEON?
YOU FUCKING CUNT.
July 17th, 2008 at 02:34 am
Ha. Has the blogger been to college? does he/she know that the main thing college teaches someone is responsibility, how to live outside your parent's basement (where they probably blog from) and to follow your passion? You know what, go ahead, major in Business. Enjoy being a corperate slave in a cubicle under the watchful hum of flourescent lights. I'll be "playing pretend" as one commenter said on stage, eking out a meager existance and doing what I love every day. Work to live? Nope, if you do what you love, you Live to Work. (byt the way, a philisophy major is a great way to get into law, like a lawyer) So, please, don't let this guy/gal discourage you when you're picking a focus for school. Follow your passion, work your ass off, and you'll make it. As long as you don't type in all caps...
July 17th, 2008 at 03:40 am
whoever came up with this list is completely FULL OF SHIT and a TOTAL FUCKING TARD !!!
July 17th, 2008 at 08:30 am
We, the staff of Wake Forest University, sincerely hope this information is not taken seriously by the good parents of children in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticutt. While we freely admit we have more than our share of alumni in the coffee service industry, we feel strongly that $150,000 for four years of pandering to their snotty little brats is still a bargain in this day and age. Plus, every hundred years or so we actually win a sporting event. Fun is had by all.
We also have a big church.
Fiat Lux,
Dr. Hatch and the Granola Batch
July 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am
nice post.
July 17th, 2008 at 01:32 pm
Original reponse :I would say Social Work is the most expensive useless degree. $200,000 education so you can make $18,000 and live in the worst neighborhoods in the country. Just go to community college. And the worst are the women who then go back and get their masters in social work. $400,000 education total to make at the most $24,000 your whole life.
Reply from daniel b. lehrman, MSW .. Regarding the Masters degree; as is true in any profession, there is a wide range of people that "go to the top", "stayin the middle" and are at the "lower ends" of the socioeconomic spectrum. So, in essence, the potential to make in excess of 100,000 per year is there, as is the reality that some will only nake 24, 000 per year. I would concur that this is not a bell curve, (income)but there are some similarities. One of the most important considerations in going into any "helping" profession, is to know if this is what one really wants to do. Healthcare providers of all degrewes, (MD's and the like) have left in droves in the last 10 years, secondary to the maddness of mismanaged managed care, combined with many other unfortunate variables. I will say, that social work as a profession is one of the most misunderstood professions in the USA, secondary to the extremely wide variation of roles and tasks that those in this work place environment play, including, but not limited to becoming members of Congress, and so on. My final words are these; the chances of not earning a solid income to meet the current demands of our economy, where the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, in the field of social work, are very, very genuine. This is because, as is well known, the assaults (financially and otherwise) that are being committed to our dwindling middle class, are severe. On the other hand, Licensed socialworkers, say in the state of California, who work in prisons, can and do earn 100,000 per year. Work for the Red Cross, and you are at the bottom. Nothing is easy . Daniel :)
July 17th, 2008 at 05:34 pm
Huh. I find this information misleading, I live in New York City, have worked in Paris (2 years} and in Italy for 2 as well. I make 90K a year. Oh, guess what was my major both in Graduate and Undergraduate school? Art History with multiple minors in French, Italian and German. Bottom line is that you have to be willing to do the work required to be successful. Never settle for less when you feel you can have more. Also remember, no pain, no gain. Who would have ever imagined that Mr Gibelli, now 35yo would be living in an ample apartment on the Upper West Side and regularly travel the world and look and study beautiful things? I owe it all to one of the most "worthless" careers: Art History. Oh, and by the way, I'm not lucky, or had good contacts, I am simply dedicated, love what I do and make it my business to see that my goals follow through.
July 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I expected to see Fashion Merchandising on this list.
July 20th, 2008 at 03:50 pm
dude!, i luvz the bong ur hitting out of! make me one!
& another bad major... tv/radio broadcasting...
dont need to know all that crap they "teach" you...
u just need to know how to kill time, tell time & make up
a bunch of sh*t along the way!!! :)
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Don't underestimate philosophy - it teaches critical thinking which is the most powerful tool you can have in any employment situation. I've worked as a management consultant and I am headed into private equity earning $200K+ as a 24 year old - philosophy is the most important thing you can study. Famous philosophers include George Soros, Carl Icahn, etc. etc.
July 22nd, 2008 at 02:57 am
Add Bachelors in Nutrition to that list. Unless you are lucky enough to get and complete and intern, it's completely useless. I even asked my professor what I jobs Im qualified for with this degree...nothing was her response.
July 22nd, 2008 at 01:44 pm
With English Lit you can get a game development degree where you learn computer programming, modeling and the business side of games which is currently a great career. Not that many people have the degree due to it being expensive for the college to run, most allow a maximum of fifteen students to do the course and only three colleges in the whole of Britain offer the degree.
July 23rd, 2008 at 06:30 am
KC Says:
June 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I have a degree in Accounting and yes, you can get a job with it. However, unless your dream job is staring at a computer all-day around menopausal women who graduated from online universities with the same degree as you, then don’t pursue it.
Re:
KC that is where sitting for and passing the CPA exam takes you from being an amateur to a professional. I am surprised you forgot to mention if you have taken the CPA exam, every accounting major and finance major knows that you need to take the CPA exam after getting your accounting degree. It would be like going to law school and then plan not to take the Bar exam. For you engineering majors it would be like receiving an engineering degree and not taking your PE exam, which some engineers do and still get hired as soon as the graduate. It sounds like you have a book entry job rather then an accounting job.
July 23rd, 2008 at 04:54 pm
First of all... it's "CUE" the bitching... not "que," or "queue," or "queueueueueueue," or anything else.
I'm an acting major. Where is acting? I thought for sure it would be on here.
"International Relations," "International Business," or "International Affairs," is probably an up-and-coming most useless major. It just screams, "I WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD!"
Criminal Justice should have been on here as well. Anything that they can teach you in 2 years at ITT Tech or DeVry is not exactly what I would call a "good major."
Very much enjoyed the visual for Latin majors. Perhaps as a useless acting major I will get to meet Tom one of these days.
And for those of you who were complaining, this is a joke. Y'all are gaaaaaaaay, bro.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
dang john sounds like you are trying to convince someone of your worth. are you trying to convince mom? dad? or trying to convince yourself? yeah i think thats it. you can really see who the insecure ones are when they post in defense of their majors. really? thats lame.
July 24th, 2008 at 08:53 pm
Ha! I really enjoyed the article, and you apparently have offended quite a few people/students! Since I finished a master's in rehab counseling and figured out that I loved school so much I wanted to work at a university (now THAT is the ideal job for people who never want to leave school!), I have come to see some of the ironies about education. It's not all that it used to be people, so wake up! Degrees don't pay what you and I were told...it's really rare the people graduate and have nice jobs waiting for them after a bachelor's degree, and that is the truth. Why do you think we have "career centers" at universities now? Because everyone is finding jobs? No! Because in order to keep the revenue coming in and keeping my paycheck above inflation we need to make sure people graduate and at least SOME of them get jobs outside of the fastfood industry. Education is one of those things that is both mandatory and sometimes worthless...I really despise the business model that most educational institutions are adopting now...nice article about a real issue in America today....
July 25th, 2008 at 05:46 pm
"Pat Says:
June 5th, 2008 at 2:45 am
@LOL - Ya the quality of life is so much better in Europe! You guys have more than 2x our unemployment rate, lower wages with higher taxes, race riots (your integration of Muslims really speaks to your superior culture), societies with no social mobility (your last name determines the entire course of your life), very little innovation, decaying social programs, a negative population growth rate and so on and so forth."
The UK has lower unemployment than the US. And im pretty sure Western Europe does not have twice the unemployment rate of the US. Lower wages is not true either. According to the tax calculators i found, someone earning $100k/year in the UK only pays $2k per year more in tax and a further $6k National Insurance. That insurance will cover their entire family. Can an American cover their entire family for less than $600/month (and pay nothing for their childrens presciptions)..
There were no "race riots". Young French people rioted and a number of them were Muslim since the rioters lived in a poor area and were angry at the conditions they were surrounded with. Nothing to do with race. The other "riot" were Muslims angry with the cartoon drawings. Again, nothing to do with race or Europeans. If anything you should be complaining about Muslims.
Social mobility? Are you serious. Europeans can live and work anywhere in Europe, tomorrow if they wanted. No troubles at all. Some Americans dont even leave the town they were born in and are forced to join the army to "see the world". The thing about your last name controlling your destiny is BS too. LOL. What century are you living in??
Very little innovation? Britain has twice as many Nobel Prize winners as the US does per capita and Sweden has three times as many. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research is currently building the world's largest particle physics laboratory in Switzerland. The European Space Agency has been active since 1975. Oh and lets not forget the fact the most technologically advanced sport on the planet, Formula One, is European focused with the majority of technicians being British.
Decaying social programs? You mean like Italy and France taking the top two positions on the World Health Organisation healthcare rankings.
Declining populations? What the hell does that have to do with anything?
July 26th, 2008 at 04:19 pm
Ohhhhhhhhh :'( I do Philosophy and English (English lang and lit) Joint honors for a degree - that's a bit poo that you've rubbished both of them!!
I personally don't think English is that pointless - and also - you've missed off Critical Thinking Studies - why the helllll do you need that??
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