I’m not asking what’s the worst/one you respect the least. I’m asking what’s the least likely to help you get work.
Most arts degrees really. I think people mostly do arts degrees with plans to do a second degree in something more useful
alot, lib arts, studies, psychology if you arnt going to grad school dont bother with a job, because there is none.
so many people i know went for psych while in college and gets mad when there isnt any. 1 of my cousin went to grad school for a PsyD and thats where the jobs are,. Also history, if you are thinking about only western history, its oversaturated, apparently asian history,etc is in short supply, i think some people wants to be a western history profess, often tend to be more elistist than not.
DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?
No issues with psychology here. My daughter just finished her master and got a job in the field at her first try. They pay for a number of additional qualifications (language, first aid, etc, which are required for this job) before she starts in September.
This one…
A Christian college’s courses for a “Marriage and Motherhood” bachelors degree - https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b32d0328-f530-4a66-a21b-b464d9c12f31.jpeg
Aah yes, the “vulnerable woman oppressed by their own father” college degree…
What an insult to women especially…
One you can’t back up in an interview without pulling up chatgpt, and only if you have no prior work experience.
After you’ve had a job for a year or two every degree question is just “did they get a degree,” and even then rarely is there a care; the post-grad job performance is what matters.
This is coming from a Journalism major/English minor who got a job in programming a decade and change ago by getting an internship at a company that later hired them (I was familiar with Linux and cross-platform tools the CS majors wouldn’t usually touch and which mattered to this company).
Of course, things are always changing. But fundamentally if you can’t back up your BA/S it won’t matter what it is.
I think any bachelors’ degree is worth something. Getting work in the field you specifically are interested in can be the tough part though. Alternately, there can be lots of jobs, but none of them pay a living wage in the area you’re in.
You would need to have been in a very niche program to not have a lot of directly transferable skills. But even then, there are a decent amount of employers that would treat any bachelors’ as a sign that the applicant is more likely to be able to learn on the job through training.
Philosophy, History, English, etc.
Anything that really only opens up to teaching the subject you got a degree in, really. Not that I disrespect these, it just seems like they offer extremely limited job opportunities.
Cartography - thanks Google !
In my very limited sample size, it’s the one I got…
English
I expect the comments here to shit on liberal arts degrees, but both myself and my colleague have masters in liberal arts fields, undergrads in philosophy, and we work in Big Tech making what likely places us in the top 10% of incomes in our chosen locales.
Of course, it also means that we feel like we’ve completely betrayed any principles we have as we are soldiers in the march to make the world a shittier place, but that’s the price we pay to keep our families fed.
was the lib arts even valid for getting a tech job? there are people with teaching doing tech.
I think generically, the “worst” degree is one that is highly specialized, and overstaffed. People point at liberal arts, but the problem with it is there are a lot of people with those degrees and not enough jobs that use them effectively. You could get a hyper specific degree but if there are 10 people that work in the field and 10 jobs and isn’t growing, or you could get a very broad degree that has 100,000 jobs but also has 100,000 people working in it and also isn’t growing, you’re just as out of luck.
You have to find a degree that matches what you’re willing to do or learn with who is willing to pay you/grow. Even then, there’s no done deals. 10 years ago Computer Science was one of the top degrees to get, now people are fleeing the programs.
There are actually lots of surveys and studies done on this subject by schools, governmental, and financial institutions. They all have a pretty heavy stake in what degrees loans are being handed out for and whether that person will be able to repay it. There’s really no need to speculate because there’s lots of data out there.
The NY Fed found people who earned diplomas in criminal justice are the most affected, with a 67.2 percent underemployment rate. They were followed by majors in performing arts at 62.3 percent, medical technicians at 57.9 percent, liberal arts at 56.5 percent, and anthropology at 55.9 percent.
interesting which medical technicians?
radiology tech earn good money(just very hard to get into if you are going the CC route,20k+people waiting for colleges that only teaches 20-30students a year, extremely long waiting list makes it not worth it) alternative path is paying for a university program somewhat expensive but you will get employed faster.
MLT, i heard theres very little jobs for this one though, and its meant for the more “prestigious” CLS program(if you dint have the initial academic/credentials for the CLS program) so you would take a longer process to become a MLT than try to become a CLS( the schools teaching CLS is super limited hence the competition, and even smaller teach MLT, and the new abridge program doesnt alleviate the competition). dont know if pharm tech counts, but i dont think they are having employment issues, just the annoyance of a license.
Yeah I’m a nurse and this article tracks. I get callbacks on applications within a week of submission or sometimes same day. Are they good jobs? Maybe. But there’s no shortage of them.
But this article also highlights something I’ve always said about cops, whose degrees are basically worthless according to this article. A degree isn’t necessary for their job while it’s literally illegal for me to not have one as well as a license that can be revoked if I fuck up bad enough.
Cops imo have a similar level of responsibility if not for health specifically definitely for safety. They should have to be licensed and that license should be overseen by a public safety board that can remove it. You should be able to maybe get a 3-6 month certificate or something to ticket people for parking in handicapped spots or noise disturbances but you should need at LEAST an associates to carry a gun in the protection of public safety, preferably a bachelors and in addition to martial arts it should cover everything from law, basic / developmental psych, basic first aid and how to identify when a disturbance is probably being caused by a medical problem that needs eval after it’s been safely contained etc.
I do actually believe there is a need for public safety officials who can show up and stop people from injuring each other but we really need to up our expectations for ethics and competency.
The fact you have to be licensed and go through years (decades?) of study, training, etc, to help people medically…
But you don’t need to do that to get a free pass to assault and shoot people…
Is something…
Yeah, the average length of training in the US for officers is 6 months. That means there’s places that require more and places that require less. There are almost 20,000 individual departments in the US with varying rules and requirements. In Germany you can’t even carry a gun on the force without a 4 year degree.
i suspect in more red states, its faster training. in places like cali there might be more extensive process.
Woohoo I’m the in the 54.1% of employed anthropology majors! Not that my work has anything to do with it anyway.
I’m just gonna leave this here: https://seanheath.ca/2024/02/22/noah-the-slave-pirate/
Some fields fluctuate… Like, kids hear that engineers are in demand or whatever, and sign up to uni for the job prospects, but so to heaps of others, so 5 years later when they’re done, the market’s already stabilised and now there’s an oversupply…
Probably not most of those fields you mentioned, but it’s still something to keep in mind… Don’t pick something that’s only recently gone up in demand.
Me in comp sci rn when hs me saw tech had most jobs available
Yeah, comp sci is rough right now. The entire industry is extremely toxic. There’s a reason the old “this repo is archived; have taken up farming” meme resonates so strongly with programmers.
Didn’t Farming While Beige literally do that?
Wasn’t meant to be a reply. Moved.
Yeah, I knew plenty of data exists and I think it has a place in this thread. I’m also curious to hear people’s opinions on here. Never know whose an HR manager or hiring person. I appreciate the info you provided! I’m particularly suprised by the medical tech one. I guess I always think of those as certs or associates level. CJ is kinda surprising too.
That reads like you prefer anecdotes over data.
I want to have a conversation about a thing. If I just wanted data I’d google it. Having the data is good to help facilitate the conversation but this is an ask post. It’s an open ended questions that encourages discourse.
Makes sense, engagement is often the point of social media. 👍
software engineering
My girlfriend has a BFA in opera.
She wears a helmet with the horns?
Please don’t kink shame.
Literally, what is this even for?
Well, opera singers have to train somewhere. The job market is a little slim though.
Yeah, it was a dumb question lol.
Conservation. They waited till I had already been locked in to tell me that the only work you can get even with a degree is voluntary.
Is that similar to an environmental science degree?
Depends what your emphasis is. There are a plethora of jobs at environmental consulting firms and it’s generally work that AI cannot do, so it hasn’t hit us hard in that regard. Anywhere there is construction happening, you need environmental consulting work.
