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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you loaded? Because otherwise sending your kid off for one of these types of courses is a total waste of time unless you can continue to support them for about a decade thereafter.[/quote]

I'm not OP but this is a stereotype. Arts majors can apply their education in plenty of ways that get them real jobs and the arts themselves are real jobs--there are just fewer of them.

--Friends' kid did theatre tech in college and now manages a regional theatre. Has had a succession of solid theatre tech/stage management/theatre management jobs; he's not rich and never will be but has always supported himself. He too had people telling him he'd never get a "real job" with his degree.
--Another friend's DD did an art degree and works in computer graphics. 
--An art major we know now uses her art background in her work with troubled kids.
--We know two full-time actors making a living after getting theater degrees. Neither lives with mom and dad.
--Another friend had a theater and English degree and has long worked in proposal management for tech firms (because she can deal with all sorts of people thanks to her theatre skills, and can write, and many of her tech colleagues are rotten writers). She's been headhunted by firms wanting her skills.

Those are just anecdotal and I'm sure PP could say there are many cases of arts majors who are living in mom's basement at 35. Sure there are. But to say all arts degrees are always a waste of time is too huge a generalization. [/quote]

Thanks for posting this pp. We have an art major too, and I try not to worry about her employability because she is well rounded, hard working, likeable, and smart. She'll get a job even if it's not in her intended profession.[/quote]

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