About University

Econ, Finance, and Accounting. The people who have to actually understand how money works in real life, are the least likely to favor socialism.

That’s what a trained criminal investigator might call a clue.

https://monsterhunternation.com/2024/04/09/correia-mocks-your-major/

While I would not go to print with the wasted verbiage Correia uses, he has a point. Unless University is truly adding to your economic potential you’re kidding yourself that it is worth the time and effort (and money.)

Because I saw skipping university was going to delay or outright thwart my career, I found a way to knock out degree after degree, while earning a wage and if possible letting my employer (US Military) cover some of the tab.

I’d observed that outside of the rarified networking of certain top schools, which unless you were seen as part of the favored clique you would never be considered part of, that exactly where you earned your academics didn’t much matter.

Working full time and doing classes four nights a week and Saturdays seemed very sensible. And  the economic reality of not building a mortgage-grade level of education debt really appealed to me.

The characterizations of various majors Correia paints is a hoot.  During my only “residency undergraduate studies” at the same time I was similarly upsetting professors who made the mistake of lecturing when they didn’t know the subject matter, I was being paid to tutor start athletes and Native Indian Tribe members.  I got a kick out of how I had to do PSATs/SATs/ACTs to get accepted a student while these folks literally couldn’t balance a checkbook or write a coherent letter home.  The Tribal guys I liked a lot, as we seemed to share a lot of respect for hands-on skills and the outdoors.  The jocks with their “hood” culture were not my favorites, as many were obviously so far over the head that I was tutoring the absolute basics.  Some of the super-jocks were reading at a 3rd-4th grade level, but dang were they fast on the ball field.  What a joke.

Luckily many hams who have degrees have pursued “real degrees.”

I’d include in “real degrees” majors where if you do not have a formal higher education you could hurt somebody else. Like Medical, Chemistry, Engineering, Electronics, … all the way to Seminary (who wants a wandering untrained priest giving sermons?), while I would exclude the “recreational majors” where experience and ability matter more than bookwork.

I’d apply some of the same ideas to ranking tech studies, as one certainly wants a trained demolitions tech, but wonders if OJT (On the Job Training) would match a “certificate in administration” as some tech joints offer?

A lot of good hams come that vocational world.

A lot of good hams come from the STEM world.

But never forget that even if they studied something that lacks tech-traction, that a lot of good hams come from every walk of life, from un/under-educated to some fairly obscure pursuits.

73

Steve
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