She's a witch! Burn her!!!

[Aiden of Oreland]

I may look Into that for college.

Avoid a history degree like the plague. Yeah it's fascinating and fun (and also quite tough deoending on the program), but if you want a job within a year of graduating, you're better off with something else. Many of my fellow history graduates that I know are still unemployed. I got very lucky and only got my job through connections. Liberal Arts are enlightening, but sadly they don't pay off loans and bills.

Ugh...isn't that the sad truth....

I already have a sustaining job as a tree worker, great money, hard work, makes me enjoy coming home to a nice stew. I plan to keep this job as long as I can. Plus, I get a good workout in lol. Maybe I like the job so much because it makes me feel like a woodsmen from the medieval era, except with chainsaws and trucks.

EDIT: Booming family business, so I'm not likely to loose this job

[Stanislaw]

I may look Into that for college.

Avoid a history degree like the plague. Yeah it's fascinating and fun (and also quite tough deoending on the program), but if you want a job within a year of graduating, you're better off with something else. Many of my fellow history graduates that I know are still unemployed. I got very lucky and only got my job through connections. Liberal Arts are enlightening, but sadly they don't pay off loans and bills.

If I may ask, what job did you get?

[Mike W.]

Strangely enough I do Software Support.

[Sir Edward]

You can always bypass college and become a programmer.

[Don Jorge]

Yeah my history degree got me a few odd jobs...started innocently enough...

High School History and Criminal Justice teacher...

College Admissions Officer...

Security Guard while working on my Masters...

Ran a presidential campaign office in North Carolina for 2012 Election...

Legal consultant....

Also working on social media and community manager for a political consulting firm on the side...it might turn into more down the road...need to brush up on my SQL and database management.

[Sir William]

You can always bypass college and become a programmer.

Yea, who needs the manual anyway? 

[Aiden of Oreland]

Is it sad that I'm part of a generation that should know everything about electronics and I can hardly figure out how to use a computer, save turning on and using the internet. In fact I even had trouble trying to run WoW...

[Sir Douglas]

Is it sad that I'm part of a generation that should know everything about electronics and I can hardly figure out how to use a computer, save turning on and using the internet. In fact I even had trouble trying to run WoW...

If it is sad, then I'm sad right along with you. For a while I could keep up with it, but anymore it just seems like it's advancing faster and faster and I'm just falling farther and farther behind. Shoot, I've only had the internet for about five years or so.

[Mike W.]

I can keep up, but it's such things like coding, programming, and understanding the subtle workings of a computer that has me stumped

[Aiden of Oreland]

I can keep up, but it's such things like coding, programming, and understanding the subtle workings of a computer that has me stumped

Its THE universal language, but one only few speak compared to the surplus population.

Some say we are coming to the singular age, but that frightens me a bit. As long as it can't create things I'll be fine. I am cool with AIs though.

[Sir Rodney]

ANY four year degree is better than none.  Many of you know I had a lengthy period of unemployment and underemployment in the not too distant past.  Even landing an interview in my field of property / facility management was nearly impossible as I don’t have a four degree in anything.

My sobering facts:
14 years of experience managing 1.5 million square feet of properties
Left company on good terms
Professional references aplenty
NO 4 year degree
300 job applications both on-line and in person
15 months unemployed / underemployed
5 interviews
1 job offer

Thank goodness that job offer was the job of my dreams.  So as to not be caught in that position ever again, I’m currently completing a professional certification through the University of Minnesota and completing a second professional certification through our state industry trade organization.  Once those are complete (mid 2015), I’ll complete the 1.5 years left of my undergraduate degree.

[Mike W.]

Congrats on that!! I've always had the deepest respect for people who push themselves to go back to school. Somehow they manage to get a degree while working and taking care of a family. If I had to do that while studying history it would have been a lot harder.

[Don Jorge]

ANY four year degree is better than none.  Many of you know I had a lengthy period of unemployment and underemployment in the not too distant past.  Even landing an interview in my field of property / facility management was nearly impossible as I don’t have a four degree in anything.

My sobering facts:
14 years of experience managing 1.5 million square feet of properties
Left company on good terms
Professional references aplenty
NO 4 year degree
300 job applications both on-line and in person
15 months unemployed / underemployed
5 interviews
1 job offer

Thank goodness that job offer was the job of my dreams.  So as to not be caught in that position ever again, I’m currently completing a professional certification through the University of Minnesota and completing a second professional certification through our state industry trade organization.  Once those are complete (mid 2015), I’ll complete the 1.5 years left of my undergraduate degree.

Aye, my wife is in the same boat. At 18 years old she took a job in the non profit sector and worked abroad in England for 8 years doing youth ministry and community organizing/event planning. She got a job at an IT firm doing Marketing for 2 years here in Raleigh when she got back and when they merged with another company became redundant. She is having the hardest time even getting interviews because she doesn't have a degree!

[Sir Edward]

Is it sad that I'm part of a generation that should know everything about electronics and I can hardly figure out how to use a computer, save turning on and using the internet. In fact I even had trouble trying to run WoW...

There's some truth to that. As computers get easier to use, there's less of a need to learn their inner workings in order to use one (and the inner workings get more and more complicated over time). I think it's getting harder to just pick up a book and learn to program.

[Sir Nate]

Must have still been a valid document during the salem witch trials.