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A decade later, I have a STEM degree and the work I do is not at all useful to society.
Once, I changed to a STEM degree because I wanted to be useful to society
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FUCK THE POLICE
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An unemployed English major is worth more to society because they get paid nothing to do nothing of value, while I get paid 87.5k a year to do nothing of value.
That's because you only went half-cocked. You have to use that degree to get a job that is useful to society.
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I'm pretty sure none of the jobs are useful to society
In the real world you take what you can get anyway
Back when I was in junior high school (before they stared calling it middle school) they had us do essays, the topic which I will never forget. A long list of people with professions, some kind of global calamity and you were the decider on who would enter the safe room. It may be kind of silly to most, but I chose my career based on being one that would be chosen. The girl I met in college that became my wife did the same thing.
I enjoyed the science track, but in my next life I am studying philosophy.
Any young adult who asks my opinion, I say follow your dreams. One of my best friends studied history, my cousin Olga did Slavic studies, my cousin Vera studied art history, my cousin Nikita went to interpreter school in Geneva. All of them had or have interesting careers.
I personally am trying to brainstorm a way to make a go of it with dead languages; I have a hankering to learn old Norse and Cornish!
Any young adult who asks my opinion, I say follow your dreams. One of my best friends studied history, my cousin Olga did Slavic studies, my cousin Vera studied art history, my cousin Nikita went to interpreter school in Geneva. All of them had or have interesting careers.
I personally am trying to brainstorm a way to make a go of it with dead languages; I have a hankering to learn old Norse and Cornish!
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
I find it hard to believe that Watermark ever really thought he would be useful to anyone......
If you want to do something useful for society, kill yourself.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Agree but what if you have none? I remember the summer before I started college sitting in my living room with the univ. catalogue wondering what the heck I'd major in.
I'd agree, history of philosophy, I had a minor in philosophy in College, had to, Jesuit college, and I always found it interesting, certainly puts a different perspective on life, and all the abstract concepts men use to direct/define life
Good insights. I belatedly came to realize that philosophy is not only bloody interesting, but gives one fresh perspectives on ways of thinking clearly and rationally
Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science—here's why
According to billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Cuban, earning a college degree in computer science might not be the safe investment you think it is.
Today, students who study computer science have a high likelihood of scoring a lucrative job: Glassdoor determined computer science and engineering to be the number one highest-paying major to study in 2017. Meanwhile, students of liberal arts subjects often make far less.
But Cuban, also an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," expects that to change.
"I'm going to make a prediction," Cuban told AOL in 2017. "In 10 years, a liberal arts degree in philosophy will be worth more than a traditional programming degree." That's because Cuban expects artificial intelligence technology to vastly change the job market, and he anticipates that eventually technology will become so smart it can program itself.
"What is happening now with artificial intelligence is we'll start automating automation," Cuban tells AOL. "Artificial intelligence won't need you or I to do it, it will be able to figure out itself how to automate [tasks] over the next 10 to 15 years.
"Now the hard part isn't whether or not it will change the nature of the work force — it will," he continues. "The question is, over the period of time that it happens, who will be displaced?"
He views previously lucrative jobs in industries like accounting and computer programming as subject to the powers of automation. To remain competitive, Cuban advises ditching degrees that teach specific skills or professions and opting for degrees that teach you to think in a big picture way, like philosophy.
"Knowing how to critically think and assess them from a global perspective, I think, is going to be more valuable than what we see as exciting careers today which might be programming or CPA or those types of things," says Cuban, speaking at SXSW in Austin in 2017.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...computer-science-degree&p=2697521#post2697521
According to billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Cuban, earning a college degree in computer science might not be the safe investment you think it is.
Today, students who study computer science have a high likelihood of scoring a lucrative job: Glassdoor determined computer science and engineering to be the number one highest-paying major to study in 2017. Meanwhile, students of liberal arts subjects often make far less.
But Cuban, also an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," expects that to change.
"I'm going to make a prediction," Cuban told AOL in 2017. "In 10 years, a liberal arts degree in philosophy will be worth more than a traditional programming degree." That's because Cuban expects artificial intelligence technology to vastly change the job market, and he anticipates that eventually technology will become so smart it can program itself.
"What is happening now with artificial intelligence is we'll start automating automation," Cuban tells AOL. "Artificial intelligence won't need you or I to do it, it will be able to figure out itself how to automate [tasks] over the next 10 to 15 years.
"Now the hard part isn't whether or not it will change the nature of the work force — it will," he continues. "The question is, over the period of time that it happens, who will be displaced?"
He views previously lucrative jobs in industries like accounting and computer programming as subject to the powers of automation. To remain competitive, Cuban advises ditching degrees that teach specific skills or professions and opting for degrees that teach you to think in a big picture way, like philosophy.
"Knowing how to critically think and assess them from a global perspective, I think, is going to be more valuable than what we see as exciting careers today which might be programming or CPA or those types of things," says Cuban, speaking at SXSW in Austin in 2017.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...computer-science-degree&p=2697521#post2697521
DigitalDave
Sexy Beast!
I guess it all depends on what you DID with that STEM degree. Programmers, like myself, have a lot of options at our finger tips. I'm still working, and still pumping out code to streamline processes for the production of systems for the US Navy, NASA, Medical Isotopes and Nuclear Power Plants. I left my job at the Potato chip factory 8 years ago, and have been here ever since.
Mason Michaels
Verified User
One word, "plastics"
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Surprise, surprise.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Wouldn’t that damage his reputation?
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
Meh...I don’t care what profession Skidmark has. He still aint getting in the room.