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--- unc4life wrote:
I knew a lot of people like your wife's cousin when I was at UNC. We use to refer to them as professional students who were trying to find themselves.
I never saw the virtue in being well rounded with a liberal arts degree and still having to bum money off of my parents after 4 years of college. I never saw the point of getting a four year degree that would land me a job waiting tables or working the drive thru at Burger King.
So being the "knuckle dragger" that I am; I got a B.S. in Math-Computer Science at UNC; had a job offer before I graduated; and never had to ask my parents for a dime after graduation day. I think my father was more proud about that than the actual degree I earned.
I knew a bunch of people at UNC who only needed 4 years of undergraduate work to find gainful employment. But since we majored in things like Math, Chemistry, Physics, Business, Accounting and Nursing; I guess we were just "knuckle draggers" who missed a golden opportunity for getting well rounded liberal arts degree. (And missed the chance to whine about being broke for the rest of our lives.)
It's a free country. Well at least for now it is.
You can major in whatever you want and schools can offer whatever degrees they want to. But the article makes valid points. Life is about choices. And the world doesn't want to hear you whine if you make the wrong ones.
And BTW; there is nothing better in this world than being a UNC Math alum and having 5 NC State Electrical Engineers report to you.
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--- Heel4evr wrote:
My wife's cousin's daughter followed that recommended path. She went to UNC and got a double major in Italian and Psychology. I think she was there about 5 years getting her degree. After graduation, she moved (most likely had her parents move her) to Denver to further contemplate what she wanted to do with her life. After about a year trying to find jobs waiting tables, she had her parents move her back to NC.
By then, I am not sure she had discovered what she wanted to pursue, but it had been revealed to her that she needed to go back to college to pursue a degree program that would allow her to get a job. She went back to UNC in an Accounting graduate program, and now has a job as a CPA with a large accounting firm. Not bad for 7 or so years in college.
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--- bucinor wrote:
The link between an education/degree and the applicability of that degree re. employment has always been a capitalistic bait-and-switch.
Educate yourself liberally, and through that education will be revealed what you wish to pursue, and equally, what you don't.
Neither McCrory, Pope, Stam and the various other Republican knuckle-draggers in the Lege, as well as most of the Democrats whose corrupt stewardship allowed those bozos to waltz into power, cares one whit about the state of education in N.C. As one poster noted earlier, were that the case, they would be falling over themselves to fund K-12.
This is all about money, ideology, and power.
Did you happen to notice when the discussion turned to taxes, and the Republican ALEC-driven proposal to cut the corporate rates and individual rates at the high end to be offset by a sales tax increase was floated? What did Pope do? He balked. Why? His fortune is in retail, dummy. Follow the money, and the ideology.
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bucinor, Wuffies know all about bate and switch.
