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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband has an engineering degree from Mason (he is a vet who did his degree part time while working and starting our family) and had to do group projects.

He would hand the write ups to me, the "lowly" humanities grad, to edit because these folks couldn't write a sentence to save their lives.

His favorite teammate was the one who couldn't stop reminding people he went to TJ.

My husband was a much better writer than some of his teammates on these projects, and that is saying something.

All this to say - the world needs humanities majors. Not everyone wants/desires to be an engineer, computer scientist, lawyer or doctor.

I thought I was going to go into Ed Policy (daughter of educators with no desire to be a teacher), but wound up in fundraising for nonprofits. No, I'm not making a ton of money, but I enjoy what I do and I am good at it. [/quote]

NP. I hear you, PP. My spouse wishes all these IT programming experts he manages had had a better dose of writing in their educations. They can program all day and night but are terrible at talking to their client about what the client needs, and terrible at explaining anything to the end users, who are not a bunch of fellow programmers. Nearly every profession needs for people to be able to explain what they do, but many programmers, engineers, even MDs, are all tech knowledge, with no ability to translate what they do for the users and patients whose lives are affected. [/quote]

Another NP, I hear you as well. My husband transitioned to Tech Marketing (has a STEM degree and was programming in Tech before), he is doing very well for himself, but struggles with writing. He is taking Udemy courses to become a better writer. My kids both want to go into STEM and are in public school. We supplement reading and writing with extra classes in elementary and middle to make sure they have a good foundation. I will encourage them to take AP classes in Language and Literature in High School along with advanced STEM classes. I feel most of the future jobs would be at an intersection of two fields, and having a decent humanities education along with spectacular STEM education would be very valuable.[/quote]

As a development manager, I spend and inordinate amount of time trying to decipher absolutely incomprehensible emails and written communications from developers.  [/quote]

Maybe because you hire cheap labors from foreign countries? 
You get what you pay for.[/quote]

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