<p>i agree with yahoos list completely.</p>
<p>^^ Well, it seems as if at least one of us (cough cough michael0360) spent no time reading all of the opposing comments on cc and yahoo and has instead decided to set himself up to lose an argument …</p>
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<p>It is when what you are failing to point out isn’t even in the ballpark of the point the article is making. But yes, I’m a cyborg and we should all be Ag and Fashion Design majors sipping Rainbow Lemonade and oblivious to the long term consequences of our educational choices.</p>
<p>My first thought after reading the item was…</p>
<p>as we try to feed a growing world population
…why aren’t the agric and hort fields etc more important!!!</p>
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<p>They might be important, but that doesn’t mean that they’re experiencing a massive amount of job growth. Technology makes it easier to produce more crops with fewer people, right? </p>
<p>(Besides, the real issue with feeding the world isn’t the amount of food but how well we can distribute it – there are some parts of the world where people starve on the streets while there are other parts where there is much more food than anyone is interested in eating, so we throw it away or give it away).</p>
<p>^Not to mention that we seem to be producing enough to put copious (subsidized) quantities in the gas tanks of our Navigators and Escalades.</p>
<p>Rick Perry majored in Animal Science! Look how far it got him!</p>
<p>By all means…only choose a major for its projected income potential, be sure to buy a house you can sell with no hassles ever, only wear clothes you can resell on ebay, and be sure to marry someone who will look the same in 30 years…in fact just don’t do anything you can’t be sure will work out exactly as projected…good luck with that!</p>
<p>Nobody advocates foolish risk but from my humble 54 years on the planet I have seen the pragmatists and the risk takers and the best I can say is … follow your bliss…do what you love, love what you do and you will have what you need. If you don’t have everything you want, well that’s okay- that’s reality for most of us:) but the rewarding feeling of working hard at something you are passionate about has a way of changing those wants for the better. I don’t know anybody who took chances on something they loved who regrets it. I do however know some young and old alike who are extremely frustrated at their inability to control their circumstances and make them happen according to their plans, and a few who would like to be able to go back and take some of those impractical chances they passed up.</p>
<p>I came across the today, theater majors as well as doubters might do well to read it:</p>
<p>[What</a> Theatre Majors Learn. What can you “do” with a theatre major? Plenty!!](<a href=“http://lecatr.people.wm.edu/majorslearn.html]What”>http://lecatr.people.wm.edu/majorslearn.html) </p>
<p>My H, and his entire family as a matter of fact, work in theater (and TV, and movies). They’re union, either stagehand or wardrobe, and all make a very good living at what they do. None majored in theater in college though, they came into theater work pretty much out of HS, most of them. However, their bosses often did major in theater in college, and are now the producers, writers, directors, production managers, theater heads, etc etc. that they work for.</p>
<p>I also have a friend with an engineering degree who was laid off from NASA and now works at a supermarket.</p>
<p>I know I am biased since I went to Texas A&M where a large portion of student get some type of Agriculture degree. There are many, many varieties of such degrees and everyone I knew managed to get “real” jobs after college. Heck, my Biochem degree was from the college of Agriculture and I went on to do Cancer research. My husband get a degree in Mechanized Agriculture (now called Ag. Business), he is the president of a company now. OK, I guess that’s cheating because it is a family owned business, but still…</p>