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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why such disdain for those majoring in “vocational” degrees? I majored in accounting because as someone with few means, I needed something that would get me straight into a job. I didn’t have much room for error or creativity.[/quote]

They are telling us we are supposed to know our place.[/quote]

It's because posters on this site time and again show disdain for students who study the liberal arts, or more accurately the humanities. No one needs disdain the other. Everyone has a different path.[/quote]
It's kind of ridiculous to condescendingly call a STEM degree a "vocational school." An engineering degree imparts actual knowledge, just like a liberal arts degree.
 Yes, it may be different knowledge, but it's hardly inferior knowledge. I have a MA and a JD, but I doubt I would have made it through an engineering degree. [/quote]

I'm sure the PP meant vocational as an insult, but it is not. Let's stop with the superior business, the ranking of jobs. Everyone can't be a day trader. Everyone can't be a custodian. Everyone can't be a doctor. Everyone can't be an engineer. Everyone can't be a farmer, a lawyer, a teacher, or a manager, a salesman, a bus driver, a developer. We need some of each to work as a society.[/quote]

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