The Fab Four sings "All Bob's Money"

History and Sociology degrees are great majors for graduate school. Tack on an MSW and in 4-5 years you can be making 60-80k (rural midwest numbers) a year in a work environment that doesn't require you to put in 80 hours a week.

 

There are very few majors that any kid can go into these days with a four-year degree that is worth as much as High School degree was 20 -30 years ago. All a Bachelor's degree gets you these days is a job as an assistant manager at the local fast food joint. 

Edited on Aug 28, 2019 7:28pm

Kids getting out of Purdue today with engineering degrees are making (immediately out of school mind you) $65,000-$85,000................mean average and depending on the specialty.  My degree (Finance) buys the Purdue grad an average salary immeidately out of school of $58,000.  The interesting thing about Purdue business grads vs engineering grads is that the business grads, on average, begin to make more money than the engineers 8 years beyond graduation and for the balance of their careers.

 

Those graduating from the few Purdue liberal arts offerings (communications, history, law and society) earn about $40,000 on graduation.

 

I tell kids today to get an enginnering degree, work for five years, and then get an MBA.  You can rule the World.

Of course, one could argue that the purpose of a college education is not to make gobs and gobs of money when you graduate. It could be to learn to understand the world a little better.

 

As far as a degree in finance goes, there are an awful lot of supposedly educated people in finance who have driven the economy off a cliff repeatedly in the last couple of decades (in both the private and public sector), so I wonder if either a) it's not nearly as exact a science as it pretends to be, or b) the potential money involved makes the finance sector particularly vulnerable to politics and corruption (that was certainly the case 100 or so years ago).

Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

What I so generously validated for you is your passionate Trump-love and your Trumper disregard for facts and human decency. I feel you should be allowed to express yourself whenever and wherever you wish. Unlike Trump, I believe in the right of people I disagree with to voice their opinions, even loony and nonsensical ones like yours. It's a free country, at least for the time being.

 

But if you want to reject your worship of Trump, hey, great. Then we won't have to re-educate you (I know that terrifies you)!


I showed that you lied. You don't care, because that's what you do.


Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

Of course, one could argue that the purpose of a college education is not to make gobs and gobs of money when you graduate. It could be to learn to understand the world a little better.

 

As far as a degree in finance goes, there are an awful lot of supposedly educated people in finance who have driven the economy off a cliff repeatedly in the last couple of decades (in both the private and public sector), so I wonder if either a) it's not nearly as exact a science as it pretends to be, or b) the potential money involved makes the finance sector particularly vulnerable to politics and corruption (that was certainly the case 100 or so years ago).


I've been a chemical sales rep for 37 years.

Originally posted by: Bob Orme

I showed that you lied. You don't care, because that's what you do.


Spoken like a true Trumper. It's all fake news, and everybody who criticizes Trumpie-poo is a liar.

 

Listen, Sweet Old Bob, I understand that you're a loyal Trump slave and you hope that your faith will be rewarded someday. One of the things Trumpers have to do to prove their loyalty is insult and belittle anyone who criticizes the Orange Orangutan. You're just fulfilling your function as a Trump puppet, no more, no less.

 

And I forgive you for voting for him.

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