Comments | garmacottar: I should have slept

garmacottar

I should have slept

Oct 09, 2006 05:56

In three hours I may have a class. Probably not, but it could be. I got up at two yesterday so that'll be 16 hours. This only happened because gnxp brought me to Paul Graham's Essay's and Idiocentrism. While I'm glad of the mind expansion and new information I could have done with the sleep too, and I foolishly told Tom to throw water on me if i ( Read more... )

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peadar October 20 2006, 07:45:55 UTC

which ax is the guy grinding lets look at it this way if you get a science degree low level your more then likely going to end up working as a lab tech somewhere no it doesnt even quailify you to teach science same with enginering there is no such thing as a vocational degree anymore it is what you do with the abillities you aquired in the degree in the first place that will mean the difference between who gets the jobs in the fields of research and development and who moves on from the grunt level jobs. congratulations america where this piece is obviously from for making education so expensive that thosse with the bare minimum under us law have more assets and advantages then thosse who have actually studied.
congratulations when you make it financally atractive to not study you are going to get a country where no one does and your starved for technical jobs or are busy shipping them overseas cause your workforce is no longer quailified for them.

garmacottar October 23 2006, 14:31:59 UTC

Well, he's pretty upfront about his axgrinding, his leanings are towards generalism, which means he can't get a job in academia, and apparently his social skills (of the political and backstabbing variety, especially) are execrable, so he can't fake it for the requisite time.

As to the vocational degree, a biology or chemistry degree enables you to become a well paid lab tech, an engineering degree is still vocational, and a physics degree, while useless in the field without postgraduate work makes you eminently hirable.

Its the return on investment of time, money and energy I was looking at more than anything else, and in general arts degrees are no great shakes on the money front. As to the transferable skills acquired by studying in the Arts, if you can be a star in the Arts, you can be a star in many other more lucrative things. From a purely monetary point of view, the returns on investment from a four year arts degree are less than from four years of work experience, ceteris paribus which they usually aren't ( ... )