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Local Mad Scientist
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: York, Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,320
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Many are steered wrong. I have to agree, college isn't suppose to teach you to get a job, it is to open your mind and teach you to learn. I know, I have taken that away from my college experience. I tell my friends that I could do anything I put my mind to and that I am not just limited to my Chemistry Degree because my liberal arts program has given me the tools to excel.
I also wasn't putting down being a baker, just don't need a Latin degree to do it was the point I was trying to make.
I feel a lot of these future students are steered wrong by professors and advisers who are trying to get their student quota up to get more funding for their department. I had a waitress that was in the graphic design and art program. She later told me that her adviser directed her towards secondary ed. I told her that public schools have been cutting back on funding and teachers are being laid off. I told her that she is being advised wrong and there is a huge market for graphic designers in advertising, website design, labeling... ect. Went back a few weeks later and ended up having the same waitress. She informed me that her adviser said I was wrong. I told her we pay an outside graphic designer $120/hr for new labeling when we have it done.
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