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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5465 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 41 of 169 29 September 2009 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I hate to create a political debate, but I am certain that American doctors will continue to make much, much, more than $60,000 even with universal health care. If you've got a source saying otherwise, I'd be really interested in seeing it. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6167 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 42 of 169 29 September 2009 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Please try to keep the thread on topic. I've had to delete a number of posts that were politically charged and off topic.
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| Lingua Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5364 days ago 186 posts - 319 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch | Message 43 of 169 29 September 2009 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks for deleting those posts. Edited by Lingua on 29 September 2009 at 5:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6638 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 44 of 169 29 September 2009 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I majored in music and never ended up with a career in it. Never tried all that hard to get one, either. For me, all the studying ruined it for a while and I didn't play or compose for a few years. I do now, but just as a hobby, not professionally.
I worked in retail management for several years after college, and just recently decided to go back to school. I'm majoring in Chinese and double minoring in Japanese and Art History. My plan is to go on to a PhD and pursue a career in university teaching and research. My actual research interests aren't fully developed, but I think it will be somewhere in the fields of Chinese Historical Linguistics and Dialectology, or in East Asian Art History. Both are fascinating to me. I'm also interested in the history of the Chinese writing system itself, and its use in other languages (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other "dialects" of Chinese), so that may also be a possibility. I'm sure I'll try to do some tutoring, translation, and maybe even interpretation work on the side to get myself through grad school. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| james1 Senior Member Korea, South Joined 5412 days ago 121 posts - 145 votes Speaks: English* | Message 45 of 169 29 September 2009 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I majored in History. I think that was a huge mistake. I could have learned more about history if I just started reading books and learning about history. Did I really need to Major in it? After school, I found this to be a useless major. Majoring in History never gave me any advantage for any job I applied to. Companies are looking for skills, not smart people or educated people. So, if I tell a company, yes I majored in History, usually, we laugh about it. They might say, "What were you thinking, hahaha" of course. I laugh as well. Now, I work in HR, at a company. It is funny because when we hire people. We look for skills. If someone tells me that they majored History, English Literature, Languages, I always laugh. Furthermore, Don't let people convince you money in not important when picking a major. Remember, don't take advice from "unmarried people" or "other students" If you ever want to get married and have kids. They will want, Money.....Dollar bills....Bucks....The Green Stuff Lots and lots of Cash Money. Picking your major will have a big effect on your life. So, I am thinking like a parent here. Hey, If you were my kid, I would say this. Major in something usefull, ie. business, finance, economics, tax, insurance... Minor in your love, languages etc... Good at language + skill = Value Good at language + No skill = Homeless 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Glendonian Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5505 days ago 26 posts - 37 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: German, Italian | Message 46 of 169 29 September 2009 at 7:45am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm a History major. I really don't like this kind of attitude. Did you go into it when you were 18 thinking that it would give you an advantage? Why on Earth did you think that? Just because you didn't think your education through doesn't mean there's no value to a liberal arts degree. I can certainly understand and respect someone choosing to study a trade (like plumbing, hairdressing, engineering) in order to be employable, but if you made a mistake it doesn't call for telling students that they should sacrifice cultivating themselves for the sake of a bigger paycheque. Who stops after a BA? Everyone I seem to have met has undergone much more training before entering the workforce. I do very menial work and support myself very modestly indeed. I wouldn't trade my current pursuit of a background in History for anything. A bachelor's degree is essentially the new high school diploma - everyone has one, and all it does is certify basic competence and a modicum of perseverance. Like a high school diploma used to be. Like some of the posters above me have said, it doesn't matter to your career what the actual content of your very first degree was.
What am *I* thinking? I'm thinking that I want to be an educated person, at least if it will help me get there to do something as trivial as an undergraduate degree. That said,
I don't live in a country where a single year of education costs tens of thousands of dollars for tuition alone, so I might have made different choices had I been born somewhere where people with my values are far less fortunate. 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| james1 Senior Member Korea, South Joined 5412 days ago 121 posts - 145 votes Speaks: English* | Message 47 of 169 29 September 2009 at 10:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Glendonian, You dont have to bash my opinions. You can just talk about your own. If you like History. Good for you. I majored in History and it was fun and interesting. Money, is not so important to me. But, I am going to have kids. Kids value money. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6224 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 48 of 169 29 September 2009 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's not that kids value money (well, not all of them), they NEED money. I used to have a different mindframe, but the past year has changed my philosophy on everything. Just think about this, how would you feel if you can't send your kids to an Ivy League school or Oxbridge even if they got accepted, only because you don't have money. I think as a parent, that would be the most tragic feeling one could get: not being able to provide something that could change your children's lives and something they deserve, only because you don't have enough. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Going back to the original question, I still haven't gotten into university, but now I'm applying for more "employable" majors like Economics and International Relations. Cruel realities of life are finally kicking into my brain circuit. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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