• vlad
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    168 months ago

    The Liberal Arts being a joke degree holds up.

    • @[email protected]
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      388 months ago

      Only if the only point of college is to get a job.

      There’s more to life than work and a good liberal arts degree exposed you to a lot of it.

      … It’s not worth 200k of debt but it’s great to learn.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          Having a degree that might not necessarily be relevant to the job does suggest to an employer that you have the ability to complete tasks as assigned to a satisfactory degree and generally indicates some amount of communication, problem solving and other soft skills.

          Also technical colleges and community colleges exist. You can spend a lot less than 200k getting a degree

    • @[email protected]
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      268 months ago

      In my mind it’s not so much a joke degree inasmuch as it really relies on the student to have their own plan for employment and the usefulness of the degree.

      Some people have connections, ideas, outside the box thinking, or independent wealth.