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    Default Once, I changed to a STEM degree because I wanted to be useful to society

    A decade later, I have a STEM degree and the work I do is not at all useful to society.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Sorry it didn't work out.
    (Trump says 'your check is in the mail')

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMER REMOVER View Post
    A decade later, I have a STEM degree and the work I do is not at all useful to society.
    Suggestion:

    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Sorry it didn't work out.
    (Trump says 'your check is in the mail')
    ^Moron thinks Trump pays everyone.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
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    An unemployed English major is worth more to society because they get paid nothing to do nothing of value, while I get paid 87.5k a year to do nothing of value.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMER REMOVER View Post
    A decade later, I have a STEM degree and the work I do is not at all useful to society.
    That's because you only went half-cocked. You have to use that degree to get a job that is useful to society.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    That's because you only went half-cocked. You have to use that degree to get a job that is useful to society.
    I'm pretty sure none of the jobs are useful to society

    In the real world you take what you can get anyway
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMER REMOVER View Post
    I'm pretty sure none of the jobs are useful to society

    In the real world you take what you can get anyway
    Back when I was in junior high school (before they stared calling it middle school) they had us do essays, the topic which I will never forget. A long list of people with professions, some kind of global calamity and you were the decider on who would enter the safe room. It may be kind of silly to most, but I chose my career based on being one that would be chosen. The girl I met in college that became my wife did the same thing.

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    I enjoyed the science track, but in my next life I am studying philosophy.

    Any young adult who asks my opinion, I say follow your dreams. One of my best friends studied history, my cousin Olga did Slavic studies, my cousin Vera studied art history, my cousin Nikita went to interpreter school in Geneva. All of them had or have interesting careers.

    I personally am trying to brainstorm a way to make a go of it with dead languages; I have a hankering to learn old Norse and Cornish!

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    I find it hard to believe that Watermark ever really thought he would be useful to anyone......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMER REMOVER View Post
    A decade later, I have a STEM degree and the work I do is not at all useful to society.
    If you want to do something useful for society, kill yourself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Any young adult who asks my opinion, I say follow your dreams. !
    Agree but what if you have none? I remember the summer before I started college sitting in my living room with the univ. catalogue wondering what the heck I'd major in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    I enjoyed the science track, but in my next life I am studying philosophy.

    Any young adult who asks my opinion, I say follow your dreams. One of my best friends studied history, my cousin Olga did Slavic studies, my cousin Vera studied art history, my cousin Nikita went to interpreter school in Geneva. All of them had or have interesting careers.

    I personally am trying to brainstorm a way to make a go of it with dead languages; I have a hankering to learn old Norse and Cornish!
    I'd agree, history of philosophy, I had a minor in philosophy in College, had to, Jesuit college, and I always found it interesting, certainly puts a different perspective on life, and all the abstract concepts men use to direct/define life

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    I'd agree, history of philosophy, I had a minor in philosophy in College, had to, Jesuit college, and I always found it interesting, certainly puts a different perspective on life, and all the abstract concepts men use to direct/define life
    Good insights. I belatedly came to realize that philosophy is not only bloody interesting, but gives one fresh perspectives on ways of thinking clearly and rationally

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    Mark Cuban says studying philosophy may soon be worth more than computer science—here's why

    According to billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Cuban, earning a college degree in computer science might not be the safe investment you think it is.

    Today, students who study computer science have a high likelihood of scoring a lucrative job: Glassdoor determined computer science and engineering to be the number one highest-paying major to study in 2017. Meanwhile, students of liberal arts subjects often make far less.

    But Cuban, also an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," expects that to change.

    "I'm going to make a prediction," Cuban told AOL in 2017. "In 10 years, a liberal arts degree in philosophy will be worth more than a traditional programming degree." That's because Cuban expects artificial intelligence technology to vastly change the job market, and he anticipates that eventually technology will become so smart it can program itself.

    "What is happening now with artificial intelligence is we'll start automating automation," Cuban tells AOL. "Artificial intelligence won't need you or I to do it, it will be able to figure out itself how to automate [tasks] over the next 10 to 15 years.

    "Now the hard part isn't whether or not it will change the nature of the work force — it will," he continues. "The question is, over the period of time that it happens, who will be displaced?"

    He views previously lucrative jobs in industries like accounting and computer programming as subject to the powers of automation. To remain competitive, Cuban advises ditching degrees that teach specific skills or professions and opting for degrees that teach you to think in a big picture way, like philosophy.

    "Knowing how to critically think and assess them from a global perspective, I think, is going to be more valuable than what we see as exciting careers today which might be programming or CPA or those types of things," says Cuban, speaking at SXSW in Austin in 2017.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...21#post2697521

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