<p>Yeah but that’s not the point. The point was “I’m not saying one shouldn’t major in an impractical major, but <b>if monetary means are the end goal</b>, and your ideal world is to accumulate as much monetary value and to contribute back, the practical majors such as engineering and the medical profession are the ones to go”</p>
<p>yeah maybe in a perfect world…</p>
<p>Biggest joke of a major is at my school UCSC. We have the History of Consciousness as a major. We are the only school in the country that offers this major I think. How Santa Cruz is that!</p>
<p>LOLz. . .</p>
<p>I was thinking like Slavic Literature or something. At least maybe you would learn Russian if you were to major in that. Can’t remember what school offers that, but I think a UC did.</p>
<p>Luckily in California, if you go to a public university, you probably aren’t coming out of school w/ $150,000 of debt like a lot of people on the East Coast.</p>
<p>Many employers want their entry level employees to have a college degree, regardless of major. Its just another screening method. Today’s college degree is really yesterdays high school diploma, and today’s graduate degree is yesterdays college degree, and so on.</p>
<p>I am curious about the experience/education dilemma, which seems to come up a lot. Say you are overqualified based upon your education or work experience, why don’t employers hire you if you agree to a lower salary, position, etc? Is there some law or widespread corporate policy that prohibits employing people who are overqualified (in any sense)?</p>
<p>There are a lot of reasons why an employer wouldn’t want someone that is overqualified. One of the reasons includes (brief version): how do you deal with a situation where an employee is more qualified than his or her supervisor? Can a supervisor really instruct someone who is more capable or experienced at their job than they are?</p>
<p>Office politics is an ugly reality that is not taught in college. There are hierarchies for a reason. Hiring overqualified candidates who agree to less money violates those hierarchies and that’s when trouble really starts a’ brewin’.</p>
<p>It’s messed up for sure. My step-father had the hardest time finding a job because most companies just couldn’t pay what he was worth. But it turned out okay cuz he ended up opening his own business which is pretty sucessful.</p>
<p>A largely pragmatic individual myself, it still seems to be a bit nonsensical.</p>
<p>If expectations are made clear initially, the possibilities or basis for a hierarchical conflict would seem to diminish.</p>
<p>I am guessing many of these overqualified candidates initially ask for a higher pay. Am I wrong? Do businesses really feel like its better to not hire someone and leave them unemployed on the basis they are overqualified, than hire them and under utilize their capabilities while paying them a reduced wage?</p>
<p>That really seems to be a non-issue in the current environment. The people being hit hardest right now are those with a high school education or less. I have also read and heard many of the unemployed are finding jobs they once could acquire are no longer within their reach because they require a “4 year degree” of any variation. That said, I’d rather have a degree in Slavic Literature than no degree at all.</p>
<p>“How about Media Studies (mass communication), is it one of the majors with no job market at all?”</p>
<p>Wrong!! Communication leaved to careers in Advertising, Journalism, events, PR…I have friends w/ Communication degrees and they all have really cool jobs!</p>
<p>ComradeD, overqualified people are being hit really hard in this recession. The people who have it the worst are actually the 40 something year olds with 20 years of experience. Nobody is going to hire them because their too expensive, and employers don’t want to hire somebody they think is going to retire soon.</p>
<p>Now if you were an overqualified applicant being payed less than your worth, would you not jump on the first opportunity that came your way to get out of that position? Maybe employers are afraid of that.</p>
<p>Man… I have heard those students majoring in history; have no chance at finding a job after school. They should just become engineers. History students are so stupid. As a matter of fact, any social science major is an idiot.</p>
<p>Pleassssssssssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.</p>
<p>Thats what i get from reading this thread. Not what i believe.</p>
<p>My cousin’s majoring in film history…</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Yeah. Someone want to explain that one to me?</p>