25 years old and deep in debt

[garbon]

So, I don't agree that a double-major is some kind of good idea.  Sorry, I'm very tired so my thoughts are a little disorganized.

Why would it hurt though?

[DGuller]

Given that last month he sent 36,240 text messages, not much at all, apparently.

I sincerely doubt I will have sent that many by the time I die.

Well, Berkut Jr. can definitely forget about being a surgeon.

[Jacob]

So, I don't agree that a double-major is some kind of good idea.  Sorry, I'm very tired so my thoughts are a little disorganized.

If you had studies your classics more you'd likely be able to organize your thoughts better.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

What academic career path prepares one for, say, inland marine insurance sales?

None, which is why post high school education should be completely irrelevant in that field.

[Jacob]

The classics are a hobby, not a career path.  At least majoring in, say, film, gives you technical skills that you may be able to bring to a real, extant industry.  It's an old joke, but how many classics firms are hiring?  In what fashion does being able to quote Aeschylus make you a more marketable person?  In a related vein, for what reason do you need to pay somebody to read Aeschylus, anyway?  These are reasonable questions but for the humanities-industrial complex (and a not inconsiderable cross-section of Languish) you'd think they were on par with asking why it's ill-considered to rape babies or something.

What academic career path prepares one for, say, inland marine insurance sales?

It's a well known fact that no-one had careers in game design before colleges started offering game design degrees.

[DGuller]

So, I don't agree that a double-major is some kind of good idea.  Sorry, I'm very tired so my thoughts are a little disorganized.

If you had studies your classics more you'd likely be able to organize your thoughts better.

His rants about his inability to find gainful employment would be 27% more clear and 12% more concise.

[Jacob]

So, I don't agree that a double-major is some kind of good idea.  Sorry, I'm very tired so my thoughts are a little disorganized.

If you had studies your classics more you'd likely be able to organize your thoughts better.

His rants about his inability to find gainful employment would be 27% more clear and 12% more concise.

[Ideologue]

I studied the classics to my satisfaction on my own time and my own dime.  It was faster and cheaper.

[CountDeMoney]

What academic career path prepares one for, say, inland marine insurance sales?

None, which is why post high school education should be completely irrelevant in that field.

Then why require a college diploma as an employer? 

All you football-fucking monkeys are blaming higher education for the irrelevancy of their degrees, when you should be turning your lonely eyes at the employers that demand them as a mandatory minimum requirement.

[Ideologue]

Why blame employers when it was the higher education industry who devalued the degrees by overproducing them?

[Ideologue]

Not that employers can't be blamed for an awful lot, obviously.

[CountDeMoney]

Why blame employers when it was the higher education industry who devalued the degrees by overproducing them?

They didn't overproduce degrees, they overproduced graduates.  You want to blame somebody, blame breeders like Ed, who's going to send two lines' worth of Toronto Maple Leafs to fucking college.  The degrees aren't the problem, parents are.

[Tonitrus]

Or the olds aren't dying off fast enough anymore. 

[mongers]

I don't know why, but with this thread I get this distinct feeling of déjà vu , like we've been over some of this ground before. 

[MadImmortalMan]

Why blame employers when it was the higher education industry who devalued the degrees by overproducing them?

Their "requirements" are inflating the demand for them. It's one of the main contributors to the problem, IMO.