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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get a liberal arts degree (economics and something soft) from the highest ranked school you can.

Recruiting for finance, consulting, and corporate /strategy roles are much much easier if you are in English and economics major coming from Rice or Vanderbilt or Emory compared to CS at Purdue…..

Ask around people!!![/quote]

This. College is not trade school, despite the pervasive and lingering lower middle class belief to the contrary. [/quote]
This is 2024, not 1954, despite how some elite people want to think it is.  College is no longer about a liberal art education, and then get some job because you have a degree. That's 1954 thinking.  This is not how it works today, in 2024.[/quote]

As thé decades pass, the liberal arts majors will have a better understanding of the world and how it works that the person who is not interested in anything that isn’t tech or tech-related. The non liberal arts major won’t even realize what they can’t  understand because of their lack of knowledge of history, arts, and humanities. Old age will be difficult for them because they just. won’t. get. it.
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That's your imagination.  
The employers who actually pay don't agree with your imagination. 
The employers who pay are the ones matter.[/quote]

You are entitled to your view as I am to mine.

Note my spouse and I both graduated with humanities majors from a T10 university.

Our combined annual income averages between $4.5-6million a year. 
We are definitely not alone.[/quote]

How much of this is due to social connections from your parents? just curious[/quote]

None. Zero. All of the connections were from the school. It open doors like I could never of imagined.
I’m first generation American. My parents immigrated from Asia….
Spouse family middle class American. No connections at all.[/quote]
You most likely went to grad school.  That's not helping your cause here. Most CS majors don't go to grad school, yet they are able to find good paying jobs. Most humanities majors need to go to grad school to get good paying jobs.

Statistics shows that STEM majors earn more with just a bachelor than all humanities majors with just a bachelors, even in this saturated CS job market.[/quote]

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