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Carleton College website asks: What can you do with a liberal arts degree? [parents want answers]
Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | November 2, 2013 | MAURA LERNER ,

Posted on 11/03/2013 1:42:10 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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Fact is, most Liberal Arts degrees only qualify you to teach the next generation of Liberal Arts majors - so if you can’t get a teacher or professor job you are out of luck. I have spoken with music and theater majors that think they are going to make a living playing an instrument, singing or acting. Good luck with that. A very few do, the vast majority teach or starve.


81 posted on 11/03/2013 8:04:44 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Arts degrees should not cost that much -- what is the sunken cost for them? much lower than for engineering.

Also, I believe people should have these as minors, not majors -- I love history, but majored in mechanical engineering

82 posted on 11/03/2013 10:32:28 PM PST by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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Visualize whirled peas while living in mom’s basement.


83 posted on 11/07/2013 8:10:14 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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