The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 02/27/2015 7:53:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In many fields, graduate degrees offer distinct benefits for your extra years in school.
Employees armed with a graduate education are often a more attractive hire and can make a higher salary than colleagues who have only a bachelor's degree.
However, for some industries the benefits of going to graduate school are comparatively low and don't justify the extra investment.
Using the recent "Hard Times" report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, we examined salary and unemployment data of experienced college graduates and experienced holders of graduate degrees. These are workers whose ages range from 35 to 54.
For roughly 50 fields, we calculated how much more money a graduate degree would bring and the difference in unemployment rates for those with a post-college degree. These figures were then combined to determine which graduate degrees were the most "useless" — basically, which give you the smallest boost in salary and employment.
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What a crappy article! I can find dozens of more useless graduate degrees, like “Gender Studies” and “Bi Sexual Asian Studies” etc.
Started at the bottom, programmer trainee, $12K a year, 1979.
If you can handle Latin and Greek, programming should be pretty easy. The main problem is to get a foothold. I used influence to get the job, but after a year I could have gotten plenty of jobs on my own.
HR bunnies are for the most part useless. There are a few HR rockstars out there though, but most of them suck and do a poor job finding and obtaining talent.
Yep. Any debt I did have coming out of school was minimal and paid off within a year. And at the time I was in college, the universities weren’t as advanced as Austin Community College was. While they were still teaching fine art, I was learning computer aided design … Photoshop 1, PageMaker, this new (at the time) program called QuarkXPress, along with traditional paste-up, illustration, and 3D animation … from industry experts. I think once I got out and started working, I did one paste up job. The rest have been computer only. I’m now in video production and motion graphics.
Agreed...any computer degree cannot be bad IMO! I don’t see how any humanities degrees are worth their salt, and degrees in English probably are becoming less and less useful due to auto complete, and creative spelling (Scrabble considers “MM” a frickin word, look it up).
I’m finally working on my Master’s because you need it for the upper echelon of most organizations. Doesn’t translate that much to more green IMO!
The only job for philosophy majors is to become a philosophy professor and make more philosophy majors... a trick any bacteria has mastered.
Knowing that is why I stopped with a BA in philosophy. I've owned my own business, and worked in corrections, and now specialize in radiation effects testing.
I would modify that to read "you need it for the upper echelon of most LARGE organizations".
I've usually found more rewards, financially and personally, in smaller companies. Your mileage may vary.
I only have an Associates in General Studies and I pull in over 70K a year.
None of those are considered hard science.
Engineering is not hard science?
“How many job opening are there for philosophers?”
Let me think about that for a while.....
Nope. If it were, the people working in the field would be called scientists and not engineers. These are very different professions and have different training/educational pathways.
I’m a civil engineer with my professional license turned stay at home mom. I graduated from college with a BS in 1999 and have been out of the work force now for just over 3 years. I don’t know where they got their salary numbers from, but I’d say they’re rather inflated. But, there is a slight advantage with state requirements for being allowed to sit for your professional license test for people that have a graduate degree.
I guess you have to figure in the money lost from getting your master’s degree instead of working and spent on tuition.
Those advanced technical degrees don’t help much percentage-wise because the basic degrees are already quite profitable.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
I don’t agree with your definition. You do not have to be called a sciencist to be have a career in a “hard science”.
It isn’t that one type of science is more rigorous or challenging than the other. For example, while you may consider chemistry harder to understand than anthropology, that does not have anything to do with chemistry being considered a hard science and anthropology being a soft science. Rather, it has to do with experimental design and the scientific method. Hard science involves experiments where it is relatively easy to set up controlled variables and make objective measurements. Particularly in sciences dealing with people, it may be difficult to isolate all the variables that may influence an outcome. In some cases, controlling the variable may even alter the results! Simply put, it is harder to devise an experiment in a soft science.
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2014/02/14/difference-between-hard-science-and-soft-science.htm
Commercial art took a hit back in the late 1960s when adventure magazines went to photo covers instead of painted cover art.
So, many of the best Yankee commercial artists went west, put on the big hat and became Cowboy Artists.
I was shocked to find that one of my favorite Western cowboy Artists had never been west of New Jersey.
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