aelf
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I think liberal arts students shouldn't apologise for having 'useless' degrees. When the measure is broken, it's best to take the measurements with a grain of salt. Focus on excelling in what you do.
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Naturally. In the end they're still companies concocting carefully-crafted chemical compounds.
Some of the ones who went into med school most certainly do. Plastic surgery is lucrative.
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Strictly speaking, most degrees are useless in that they are only useful because you are culturally expected to have one, a.k.a. academic inflation.
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aelf
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Are you talking about the education or the bit of paper?
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The latter of course. I do not dispute getting to college on whatever sometimes gives some good education, but the best to learn anything is to simply do what you want to learn. You don't need a paper for that, do you?
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I figure they the 1% major in whatever they want. Its not as important for them to have the "right" major.
Crezth
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How many people are honestly surprised to see the 1% consisting of doctors, lawyers, and business-majors rather than engineers? 
How many people are honestly surprised to see the 1% consisting of doctors, lawyers, and business-majors rather than engineers?
I'm not surprised, I've long thought that engineers are grotesquely underpaid.
(I'm not an engineer, fwiw.)
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Most people in (freshman) engineering that I've talked to said they do it because they like math and want to make money. The potential salaries and job security are very attractive.
'Course, attrition rates are high and (upperclassmen) engineers are some of the most consistently stressed-out people I know, so, a lot of those who make it through are invested enough that pay becomes a lesser priority. What I'm saying is few engineers end up doing it just for the money.
edit: out of curiosity, how much do you think engineers should make (in-discipline variances notwithstanding), and why aren't they making it now?
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....Ah, nevermind...
Ignore my previous comment, in this thread if you saw it.
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Ignore my previous comment, in this thread if you saw it.
shifty:
Damn the emperor of the "Dark Side" is trying to encourage the hate to flow through me again...
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Those are irrelevant. A trust-fund baby/lotto winner who doesn't know how to manage his or her money will burn through the windfall faster than President Obama--and end up broke. Whereas, a person like me who knows how to invest and manage spending, can get rich regardless of whether he or she has a trust fund or a winning lottery ticket.
Getting rich is easy. The hard part is keeping it once you've got it.
Look at some of the brand names on the packages next time you're at the grocery store. Foster Farms and Kraft, for example. Taking an off-the-cuff guess, I'd say a zoology major could get you into agribusiness.
Traitorfish
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Would you have a source for this?
Archbob
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Antoine Walker is a pretty good example, and he's by far not the only one.
Traitorfish
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"Source", not "anecdote".
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Ronnie Wallwork went bankrupt and he was a manchester united footballer..
Traitorfish
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I get the impression that I am not being fully understood. 
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