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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are some holdouts who believe a college education is the beginning and not the end of education. Philosophy, classics, English, are all great springboards. You can take a post graduate pre-med course or minor in the pre med requirements, or go to law school. Or, go into a business field entry level followed by an MBA.

To some, going to college for a trade devalues the college experience. Just saying, as they say. [/quote]

You can include me as one of those holdouts who believes a college education is the beginning and not the end of education. However, I am also aware that unless one is cognizant of the changing demands within today's marketplace a person can have a college degree that provided a great education but is worthless in the context of what is sought by today's employers.

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Agree, PP. I think people are in serious denial. [/quote]

Frankly, those who insist on what worked in years gone by risk being dinosaurs in the current job market. Things are changing so fast in different fields that those who want to remain employable in today's job market need to be constantly aware of the changes and how things are evolving. Today's economy is far too dynamic to assume that something that worked a few years ago will remain viable.

The greatest disservice one can do to someone headed to college is to encourage them to follow their passion without considering whether the resultant degree will help them find  a job. Blame greedy corporations, reliance on outsourcing, cheap labor from India & China, to your hearts content, but it does not change the reality of what is happening today. What is happening to many white collar jobs today is what happened to factory jobs three decades ago. One must adapt or cease to be of value to many employers.[/quote]

This has to be a joke. The very hypothesis it tries to advance undermines itself.  [b] If things are changing so fast, majors that are leading to good jobs today might not in a few years.  Indeed, it might be the philosophically-trained  thinkers that are more valuable in a future economy when all the STEM jobs are handled by machines.[/b]

Plenty of people "follow their passion" without concern for a job and end up successful.  In fact some of the greatest inventions of all time were born out of such people.  There will always be a place and a need for the thinkers, the dreamers, and the passionate.

Incidentally, the failure to operate with proper ethics, a sub-discipline of philosophy, has cost many a corporation billions. Maybe we need more philosophy majors, not fewer.[/quote]

+1  I think it's actually far more likely that the STEM jobs will be outsourced.  But they'll still need people to write well, articulate ideas, et cetera.[/quote]

This is what I think, too. Any job that requires top-notch writing (in English) is staying right here in the US of A.[/quote]

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