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    I guess it all depends on what you DID with that STEM degree. Programmers, like myself, have a lot of options at our finger tips. I'm still working, and still pumping out code to streamline processes for the production of systems for the US Navy, NASA, Medical Isotopes and Nuclear Power Plants. I left my job at the Potato chip factory 8 years ago, and have been here ever since.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    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.

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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.
    Surprise, surprise.
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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.
    Wouldn’t that damage his reputation?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    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.
    Meh...I don’t care what profession Skidmark has. He still aint getting in the room.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMER REMOVER View Post
    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.
    Gay porn pays that well?
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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    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.
    I knew that when I started my first Bio class and saw that hot chicks outnumbered the guys by two to one I had chosen the right major.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Clueless View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Rott the Zoople View Post
    I knew that when I started my first Bio class and saw that hot chicks outnumbered the guys by two to one I had chosen the right major.
    Then you woke up and stared dissecting frogs with fat chicks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DigitalDave View Post
    I guess it all depends on what you DID with that STEM degree. Programmers, like myself, have a lot of options at our finger tips. I'm still working, and still pumping out code to streamline processes for the production of systems for the US Navy, NASA, Medical Isotopes and Nuclear Power Plants. I left my job at the Potato chip factory 8 years ago, and have been here ever since.
    I studied a STEM field too but I went into that field because it’s what I really wanted to learn. I didn’t give a lot of thought about how I was going to make a living with it. As an undergraduate I wanted to learn how to learn and I had a passion for my major. I figured if I got the learning part down I’d that after undergraduate school I’d learn how to make a living. Which I did in grad school.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I knew that when I started my first Bio class and saw that hot chicks outnumbered the guys by two to one I had chosen the right major.
    You went to a commuter school if I remember correctly. Amazing how we (guys) made life decisions based on getting pussy. When I went to LSU in the '70's it seemed liked the guys outnumbered the chicks 2 to 1. I was still dating my h.s. sweetheart freshman yr. so I was getting laid fairly regularly but she soon learned that it didn't take much on her part to have any guy she wanted. Painful experience to go thru at that age being cut off that young.
    It turned out OK though. I sowed my oats later.
    Damn shame we didn't have the insight of experience, knowledge and insight back then. "Youth is wasted on the young."

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    You went to a commuter school if I remember correctly. Amazing how we (guys) made life decisions based on getting pussy. When I went to LSU in the '70's it seemed liked the guys outnumbered the chicks 2 to 1. I was still dating my h.s. sweetheart freshman yr. so I was getting laid fairly regularly but she soon learned that it didn't take much on her part to have any guy she wanted. Painful experience to go thru at that age being cut off that young.
    It turned out OK though. I sowed my oats later.
    Damn shame we didn't have the insight of experience, knowledge and insight back then. "Youth is wasted on the young."
    That was a joke. I went to Wright State, which is part of the Ohio State University System, which means it has the same level of accreditation as a Big 10 school but smaller, though not exactly small.

    I was also being tongue and cheek about my major though the girls, at first outnumbered boys by 2 to 1. Two years later it was the other way around as most of the women had dropped the major.

    I actually knew long before I went college that I wanted to study biology in college and would probably enter an allied health field.

    Yes I do wish I had the insight about women I had now but it probably would have done me little good as I was dirt poor. Though during my Freshman year I discovered education and nursing majors and found out, to my delight, about their above average libidos.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Then you woke up and stared dissecting frogs with fat chicks.
    Dude....that was in high school Freshman biology. Dissected your species, fetal pigs, in AP biology. Took comparative anatomy as a sophomore and that’s when we lost most of the ladies as it was a requirement. Dissected birds, cats and rabbits in that class. Had to wait till grad school to dissect a human cadaver.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dott the Moople View Post
    Had to wait till grad school to dissect a human cadaver.
    I heard you requested a male one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    That was a joke. I was also being tongue and cheek about my major though the girls, at first outnumbered boys by 2 to 1.
    I know.
    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I went to Wright State, which is part of the Ohio State University System, which means it has the same level of accreditation as a Big 10 school but smaller, though not exactly small.
    I took some classes at University of New Orleans which is part of the LSU system , I understand. Although admittedly I purposely took Comparative Anatomy at UNO in summer school to avoid it at LSUBR.
    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Yes I do wish I had the insight about women I had now but it probably would have done me little good as I was dirt poor. Though during my Freshman year I discovered education and nursing majors and found out, to my delight, about their above average libidos.
    LOL, the education majors at LSU seemed to be in sororities and dated the guys from well to do families in the frats that attracted those types. Like you I was dirt poor so I never found out if education majors were promiscuous or not. I get what you say about nurses though. I worked part time drawing blood at a hospital my soph. yr. of dental school.

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