Posted on 06/23/2014 7:33:45 AM PDT by 7thson
I thought this was interesting and Freepers might get a kick/laugh out of it. Look at number 1 major requiring the least amount of study and number 5.
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i didn’t see anything about job prospects in these majors.
Don’t knock everyone with a phys ed major. There is one lady who could only afford the phys ed major, but she supplemented it with a second major in Elementary Education. Disgusted with the administrators and board of education, she quit teaching, moved across the nation, got a job with a major oil and gas corporation as a secretary. By the time she retired, she was the financial accountant and financial analyst responsible for all of the financial reporting for one of their subsidiaries for many years, without a degree in accounting or finance.
In today’s screwed up world, the gatekeepers no longer permit a person the opportunity to earn such accomplishments.
My engineering class started with about 140 and graduated 38. Most of the weed-outs happened in Freshman Physics and Calc.
Kudos to your son for testing out of the easy stuff. I did the same (12? I think? English credits....).....left time for me to work on the important things.
As a journalism grad, I can attest to the light “work load” associated with that major. Of course, I actually put in more effort than most of my peers, since I worked 30 hours a week at a local radio station and took 18 hours of credit every semester I was enrolled (except for the fall term of my freshman year). I was perpetually amazed at the number of students who struggled in a mass comm curriculum.
Still, the benefits of learning to communicate effectively can’t be underestimated; my journalism background served me well as an intelligence briefer and analyst, and more recently, as a college administrator. But if you’re not one of the very few who reaches an “elite” position in journalism (broadcast or cable networks; Top 20 TV market or major print/on-line publication), you’ll never make a decent salary.
I’ve always told college students that journalism/mass comm is a better minor than major. You can teach almost anyone to interview and write; shoot and edit video, and post your work on a website. Having expertise in another area (such as business, economics or health care) can make you much more valuable as a reporter, and more likely to land a job that pays above the minimum wage.
One last thought: along with mass comm, one of the more popular “jock” majors is criminal justice. I always thought that was because so many of them have prior experience in “the system.” Sure enough, during my days as an ROTC instructor (at an SEC school), we had one football player “graduate” to the state pen after a conviction on serious drug charges. But he had another kid who was second-team all conference, earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and played in the NFL for three years. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between.
But man's best friend is a canine. How does that work? The government funds several mass breeding programs to try to re-create the canine brain in human form. It's definitely working but the government needs to cut way back on the free kibble.
I remember a quote that no one should hire a finance, business or accounting major who went 150K into debt, since they clearly can’t run the numbers.
Yes, I saw the economics inclusion in the social sciences….it should be part of biz school IMO.
Sounds like you've hit the jackpot.
In many colleges it is.
Sometimes, a business school will have a major, business economics with accounting and finance courses as part of the the requirements for the major.
If the economics department is in the social science department you will see courses in the history of economic thought and economic history (my areas of interests) but also courses on gender equality, the economics of race and gender, specific courses on socialism and marxism and so forth.
Someone who graduates with a degree in economics may have had rigorous training in math, statistics, accounting, finance, as well as economics. However, others may have had a much easier time with fluff courses. My undergraduate degree was in between.
Aha, that makes total sense….econ as part of biz school = good…..econ as part of gender bender social sciences = worthless.
I think you’re totally right about that. I don’t know enough specifically to know for sure, but your answer resonates.
LOL!! Love Terry!
HOWEVER, it is perfectly suited for the numbskulls who make those decision on a yearly basis. As someone said long ago, “There’s a sucker born every minute!”
LOL!
Have you ever taken a college econ course? How about an upper level econ class?
To say your comment is ridiculous is the easiest thing I’ve done in a while. My undergrad econ program had a very substantial math backing. If you don’t want to call that science, fine, but you’ll be hard pressed to call it much else.
You can’t take what idiots like Paul Krugman say and think the whole discipline is corrupt or unscientific. Econ is second to Physics as the undergrad for most law school students. That’s not a holy grail standard by any means but it does mean it isn’t a worthwhile major.
Yes, I've taken the whole undergraduate range - from econometrics to advanced macroeconomics. An econ degree now includes a lot of leftist-ideology courses like "economics of labor" and "economics of environmentalism."
The fact that people can create models using calculus does NOT mean its a science. It means they can create fantasy models - kind of like climate change. Its an interesting intellectual exercise, and certainly not for the masses, which probably contributes to economists' pretensions they are capable of predicting anything beyond the most general of events.
She was attractive and had big boobs.
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Sounds like you’ve hit the jackpot.
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She was expensive. I private investigator proved she was showing those big boobs to other men too. That’s why I refer to her as the ex.
It would be an insult to canines to compare her intelligence. Canines have better morals than she did too.
He's worked hard, and has pieced together enough scholarships to earn a ride. It's tough on him, because their renewals are dependent on grades. It was all A's except 1 B the first semester, but all B's except one A the second.
One thing is for sure: He's now grateful that I insisted he take the most demanding courses he could in high school, including the dual enrollments.
To paraphrase my boy, "It's hard, but at least I'm not trying to do it while writing a paper on Hamlet."
For the life of me, I don't understand why more of the "academic elite" students don't take more dual enrollment courses in high school. He might have made a 93 instead of a 99 for his senior English, but the payoff has been tremendous.
We all agree that there are far too many “coasters” in education programs (especially elementary ed) who don’t push themselves in college and don’t push themselves as teachers.
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I passed the certified teaching exam with a better than 96% grade (judging from the practice exam in the book which is supposedly harder than the real test) with no classtime and only one week of study helping a female relative that went through the whole program cram for the exam ,,, she failed it multiple times and gave up ... to say the test was easy would be an understatement... I think I could have passed it cold with no prep at all with just basic knowledge and test taking skills.
The hardest test I have taken is the Instrument Pilot Written Exam ,, got a 98.5% on that (only 3 wrong answers) and aced the Series 7 license test with a 100%. ...
I would love to take a job teaching with the great pay , no pressure , 3 months off and all the bennies ,,, especially history , math or science .. but I’m not qualified :(
There is a shortage of math and science teachers in nearly every state, and it's actually not that difficult to break into the profession. I wanted to shift my classes to history, but a school with a good math teacher isn't going to let him switch to history.
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