I saw a comment in here about people who earn degrees but end up in jobs that aren't even remotely related to them:
I just started a job at the data center of a major mobile provider, electronics developer and appliance manufacturing organization. My particular department is the IT department that supports the call center operations, there are six guys total in my department.
I have a degree in political science.
Jim (names have been changed) has a degree in biology.
Joe has a degree in English
Ken has a degree in environmental science.
Just barely 80% of the people in my department don't have computer science degrees, but we're working in the IT department of a mobile provider. How did we get the jobs? We're all hackers who grew up around technology and got practical, real-life experience.
Personally, I think that's the way to go.
But at the same time, I'm reminded everyday of how important humanities studies are, when I'm in a conversation with someone younger than me about politics, and I bring up the Holocaust and they genuinely don't know what the Holocaust is.
Then I see people who vehemently defend the notion that if you don't make practical application of the knowledge provided in these humanities class, they're moot and you don't need to know them.
Talk about being on the fence, I'm living it everyday.
I just started a job at the data center of a major mobile provider, electronics developer and appliance manufacturing organization. My particular department is the IT department that supports the call center operations, there are six guys total in my department.
I have a degree in political science. Jim (names have been changed) has a degree in biology. Joe has a degree in English Ken has a degree in environmental science.
Just barely 80% of the people in my department don't have computer science degrees, but we're working in the IT department of a mobile provider. How did we get the jobs? We're all hackers who grew up around technology and got practical, real-life experience.
Personally, I think that's the way to go. But at the same time, I'm reminded everyday of how important humanities studies are, when I'm in a conversation with someone younger than me about politics, and I bring up the Holocaust and they genuinely don't know what the Holocaust is.
Then I see people who vehemently defend the notion that if you don't make practical application of the knowledge provided in these humanities class, they're moot and you don't need to know them.
Talk about being on the fence, I'm living it everyday.