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Originally Posted by M. Steng
I'd really be curious to see if people are using their degrees. One of my buddies spent 4 years and took out god knows how much in student loans to study English at an expensive liberal arts school, and now he's a manager at a truck rental company
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I have a Bachelor's of Music, even though close to 2/3rds of my courses were business-related, but IMO, 'useless' degrees, as I'm sure you'd call mine, come down to how much you hustle after school. I've been gainfully employed since before I even graduated. Even when I lost that job because the company started tanking, I was still freelancing while I was un(der)employed. But I've been paying my rent with jobs in the music industry since before I graduated, so only having this degree hasn't really been harmful at all.
And I know people with English degrees who are published authors now, or some who have pretty decent jobs at publishers, magazines, etc. But yea, I'm sure there are a ton doing nothing related. So I think it depends more with what you do with yourself than with your degree.
Now...where I will sort of agree with you is that I was lucky enough that the vast majority of my tuition was paid for. I did end up with like $24k student loans that I'm down to about $11k, but compared to my school's tuition and what I could have ended up with, it's not a lot. So I DO become a bit less sympathetic about people who chose to go to a $200k school for something that is by no means any guarantee of even employment, if it was something their parents and/or they independently could not afford. And not unsympathetic in a nasty way, just like, it kinda sucks because it's the born lucky argument, but if you can't afford it, you can't afford it.