[ItsOurTimeNow]

A creative writing degree? WTF was this idiot thinking? Sadly, it seems to be the rule, rather than the exception from where I sit. I’m the corporate recruiter for a major automotive manufacturer. I get so many resumes from lunkheads with bullshyte degrees in “World Music Theory”, “Eastern Philosophy”, or my favorite - “Liberal Arts”.

Morons. I need Engineers, Technicians, Buyers, Programmers. Tangible, practical, applicable tradesmen (and women). Not these nonsense degrees that don’t amount to anything but making junior feeeeel good about himself.

It’s not “the economy’s” fault. It’s the dipwads that don’t have a clue what’s valuable to an employer.

[muawiyah]

"LIBERAL ARTS" is simply a popular term used in place of "COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES" ~ without which you wouldn't have physicians, chemists, biological sciences researchers, and so forth.

[muawiyah]

BTW, "employers" are short about 20 million jobs, and that's not because they are too picky about who they are hiring.

They are NOT HIRING.

[griswold3]

I hope, somehow, after this fiasco, the culture returns to a force that understands how to ‘create value’. Back in the ‘90’s, we knew after all this stealing from each other, the piper was going to be paid. When depends on how long they keep putting off the necessary pain. And there will be pain!