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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forgot a few more:

Neighbor’s kid went to Harvard and majored in Philosophy. Yikes! He graduated a few years ago and moved to the PNW to be an “environmental educator” (whatever the hell that is) because he couldn’t get a real job post-grad.

But sometimes state school kids drop the ball. A friend’s DD is super smart. Turned down 3 Ivies for UMD on Banneker (donut family). She is majoring in Classics and English, and my friend told me that she wants to be an academic in the humanities. I told her that her DD should be prepared to not be able to find a job — the market for professors in the humanities is awful. And the kid wouldn’t even take my suggestion to at least minor in CS or Data Analytics (or anything useful!).  [/quote]

Why are you offering unsolicited advice to all of these people??? Let them live their own lives. These kids will be fine. They may flail around and try a few things for a few years, and invariably check back in with them at 40 and they are going to be living in Bethesda or Vienna with normal UMC jobs. [/quote]

OP here. You are wrong. There’s a thread in the job forum called “Squandered elite education.” It’s full of Ivy alumns who *can’t* afford Bethesda or Vienna or the quality of life that they envisioned for themselves because they made the wrong moves in college. Useless majors, no internships, etc doesn’t get you to Bethesda or Vienna. Spending your 20s in tech, finance, med school, or law school does.

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You’re a real peach OP. So incredibly proud of yourself and intolerant of others. If that’s what you learned in your engineering, pre med, pre law or business education, you can count me glad I was a liberal arts major.[/quote]

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