Ain't it da truth?!

[srotu27]

"According to a new poll, 26 percent of unemployed adults blame George W. Bush for the high unemployment rate.

The other 74 percent blame the fact that they majored in English literature."
-Jimmy Fallon.

Comments

[srotu27]

Y'know, I was thinking about that as I posted it, but the lack of market for English majors is one of my favorite self-deprecating jokes, so I went ahead with it. It's a nice thing to be able to say, though, that English majors among our acquaintance are employed if they want to be, because they're such a wonderful group of people. Much better position to be in than a year ago.

[ng_nighthawk]

I know, I'm taking the joke too seriously, so I apologize. However, I have noticed since entering technology that there are a lot of people who got technical degrees (CS, CIS, that sort of thing) who are really disappointed that their degree didn't allow them to step into the work force fully prepared for the job. I hear this a lot

[srotu27]

Yeah--- I've never been sorry that I majored in something I enjoyed and that I was good at. It helped me learn to take an existing skill, ability, or opportunity and hone it. My work has a lot of crossover with my degrees (English; Writing and Linguistics; History minor and Master's in Liberal Studies with a concentration on Language and Communication). More importantly than the grammatical rules that I learned and apply regularly, though, I learned lessons about how how to communicate effectively (something I was not naturally skilled in, whatever my early talent for poetry and literary commentary), how to think critically, and how to push myself for something worth working for.

[chaosqueen42]

Too bad no one told those folks that some of those degrees, especially CS, are academic. If they wanted to go to trade school, they shoulda gone to trade school.

I have a BA in mathematics (because I went to a liberal Arts school). I'm sometimes *sad* that I don't get to work on number theory or julia sets in my real life job. But I'm not surprised.