Liberal Arts degrees

[burbuja0512]

I understand what you mean about "learning something more concrete," or, in other words, obtaining a specialty to market yourself... but I don't quite see eye-to-eye with your argument against the general education that fills the gaps. You can fulfill those "useless" requirements with subjects that interest you or maybe subjects that don't interest you but which will ultimately improve yourself in some way, shape, or form. At the very least you will be more proficient at a game of Jeopardy.

I would rather make lemonade out of my lemons than deem them as "useless." I like to find the usefullness out of all of my educational and occupational exploits and assets resulting from the energy that I had spent on obtaining them... even if it means recalling some seemingly unimportant bit of trivia from the Astronomy exam. In all honestly, the education that I have received from my Biology course, Public Speaking, the General Anthropology DSST, and everything else - every little bit - has popped up from time to time to be proven useful. "If I combine this material and this material this will happen... learned that in Bio!" Education is life-long and for me, is not restricted solely to my major.

In spite of my earlier comments, I do want to stress that I DO find the liberal arts degrees useful. So yes I agree with MA2 in the sense that a concrete degree is probably a bit more helpful in an initial career hunt, not everyone is cut out to get a technical degree. Lol... I know I would fail miserably

So.. Liberal Arts degrees are great and can enrich your life not to mention enhance job possibilities, AS LONG AS the degree holder has some other career/life experience that they bring to the table, OR they're willing to start at the very bottom and work their way up. While they may get lucky and find a great job right away, it is harder when you don't have a set skill and are ready to work.