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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]if your kid has to major in the humanities - classics, literature, history, sociology - try to go to an ivy. The degree with will be likely useless, by the name of the ivy on his/her resume will not.

I still do regret studying literature, but because I did it at Yale and Harvard (BA through PhD), I managed to make the transition from academia pretty painlessly. It shocked me how much the name impressed potential employers even though I felt woefully unqualified in terms of experience. People just assumed that I was smart enough to pick up new skills and fields of knowledge very quickly. [/quote]
In the 30 years I've been working (half the time for a very well known tech company), I have learned that not every smart person can do any job.  People, no matter how smart they are, are not plug and play where they can pickup new skills that quickly.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, even ivy grads.[/quote]

A lit. major from an ivy has a better chance of moving up and running a tech company than a code monkey.  The latter are a dime a dozen from 3rd world countries. To move up, you need to be able to communicate. Can a code monkey write like a novelist?  That's golden in management.  [/quote]
lol  you definitely don't work in tech.

No one in upper management at tech companies need to write like a novelist, nor do they have degrees in literature.  That's hysterical.

Most have either tech degrees or MBAs or some other business type background.  There are those who have things like linguistics backgrounds for speech software, but high level tech people don't have literature degrees.[/quote]

You missed the point. They need to communicate.  If they can write, they will go far. [/quote]
Sure, but there are no lit majors in top positions at tech companies.   People who go far up the ladder have more than just the ability to write well.

The vast majority of lit majors make far less than a "code monkey".  [/quote]

seriously. And the term that poster users - 'code monkey' - says it all. What a dou#$@[/quote]

Can you imagine that person being your manager? ....[/quote]

No...unless you too are looking to get a job at Starbucks as a Barista in training.[/quote]
The "lit major" is probably mad that such degrees are no longer considered "prestigious" or are highly paid, and that "code monkeys" get paid more than their soft lit major.  They also probably didn't do well in STEM.[/quote]

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