I wouldn't have gotten an interview for my current job if I didn't have a Master's in English.

It is funny - people always like to crap on people with liberal arts degrees, but I have worked in finance, aerospace, and now IT/Software... all with a MA in English from ECU. My current job absolutely kicks ass, by the way.

(12-12-2017 10:46 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  I wouldn't have gotten an interview for my current job if I didn't have a Master's in English.

It is funny - people always like to crap on people with liberal arts degrees, but I have worked in finance, aerospace, and now IT/Software... all with a MA in English from ECU. My current job absolutely kicks ass, by the way.

Congrats on the current gig; however, I've found out that as one ages, employers are more interested in past work experience than where one went to school years ago.

(12-12-2017 10:51 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(12-12-2017 10:46 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  I wouldn't have gotten an interview for my current job if I didn't have a Master's in English.

It is funny - people always like to crap on people with liberal arts degrees, but I have worked in finance, aerospace, and now IT/Software... all with a MA in English from ECU. My current job absolutely kicks ass, by the way.

Congrats on the current gig; however, I've found out that as one ages, employers are more interested in past work experience than where one went to school years ago.

I agree with that. I'm still building my resume. I've been out of college and in the workforce for almost 11 years now... so that's something.

(12-12-2017 10:51 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(12-12-2017 10:46 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  I wouldn't have gotten an interview for my current job if I didn't have a Master's in English.

It is funny - people always like to crap on people with liberal arts degrees, but I have worked in finance, aerospace, and now IT/Software... all with a MA in English from ECU. My current job absolutely kicks ass, by the way.

Congrats on the current gig; however, I've found out that as one ages, employers are more interested in past work experience than where one went to school years ago.

neither of yaz are wrong in posit.....it's what you do with it once you're in that matters....

his point was getting to the starting blocks.....both of yaz opine how it works out downstream if one has talent.....

the ones w/o have the tougher path starting at the 'bottom'.....

(12-09-2017 09:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...or/546590/

Author's thesis: the primary benefit of college for the vast majority is simply a credential. Should be required reading for any politician making decisions on education.

It also explains some of the mind-numbingly stupid comments and actions you see from supposedly educated people these days.

"...In 2003, the United States Department of Education gave about 18,000 Americans the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. The ignorance it revealed is mind-numbing. Fewer than a third of college graduates received a composite score of “proficient”—and about a fifth were at the “basic” or “below basic” level. You could blame the difficulty of the questions—until you read them. Plenty of college graduates couldn’t make sense of a table explaining how an employee’s annual health-insurance costs varied with income and family size, or summarize the work-experience requirements in a job ad, or even use a newspaper schedule to find when a television program ended. Tests of college graduates’ knowledge of history, civics, and science have had similarly dismal results...."

College is overrated? You don't say. For sure we'd have fewer college dropouts or even grads living at home if they hadn't gone in the first place.