The Top 5 In-Demand Majors

The Top 5 In-Demand Majors

... bachelors degree will get your foot in the door, but additional certifications or an MBA is a plus. Many finance professionals opt to open their own business; almost a ...

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I am writing in response to the article, “The Top 5 In-Demand Majors” by Elizabeth Weiss McGolerick. It lists Mechanical Engineering as the most in-demand major.

I have a BME, an MSME, 5 years of IT experience, and 3 years engineering experience, and I can't get a job anywhere! In every job I ever apply to, they always want 5-10 years experience doing exactly what the job entails. I am living off unemployment checks, which are going to stop coming in November. And I still have $31400 of student loan debt from my WORTHLESS degrees!

I did everything society told me to do: I stayed in school, I said "no" to drugs, I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I didn't gamble, I didn't have unmarried sex, I went to college, and I got my education. And now my only reward is to be treated like an EX-CON!

I would be better off making a living by selling drugs or robbing banks. Or maybe I should hire a team of mercenaries to take hostages and demand ransom, like Ed Harris did in that movie “The Rock“. At least that way I would be able to pay my bills!

DOWN WITH COLLEGE! DOWN WITH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING!
 
College graduates are like ex-cons
College is like Navy SEAL training
Public school is like prison

College graduates cannot get a break because they don't have experience. Therefore, they are like ex-cons, because ex-cons cannot get a break.

In college, the professors are motivated to wash people out of the program, rather than teach the academic discipline or inspire any learning in their students. Therefore, college is like Navy SEAL training, because Navy SEAL instructors are motivated to wash people out of their program.

Public school is an environment where people are there because they are forced to be there. Therefore, it is like prison, because in prison the inmates are there because they are forced to be there.

Conditions like these are what lead individuals to become crazed maniacs like Michael Douglas's character in the movie “Falling Down“.
 
I really HATE the way our society glorifies college. All those homeworks, quizzes, lab reports, tests, exams, midterms, finals, chapter readings, sleepless nights, boring lectures, and tyrant professors - all for what? To end up flipping burgers at McDonald’s for $8/hour? My senior design project was a trial by fire! And now my BME and MSME are not even worth the cardboard they’re printed on! They are nothing more than expensive placemats! None of my professors ever told me what a worthless degree I was getting! None of my collegiate officials ever told me I was going to be working at a call center making $8/hour!
All throughout the 80’s society kept telling us the same thing over and over again:

“A high school diploma is not enough to make it in this world - you need to have a college degree”

“High school graduates only end up batching fries”

“Your chances of becoming an pro-athlete are next to nothing, but your chances of getting a career with a college degree are good”

“The way out of the ghetto is with a book, not with a basketball”

All the high school teachers kept telling us that we should be preparing to go to college.

All the TV shows of the 80’s kept telling us how great college is, and how we can make it in this world with a college degree.

They kept telling us how college would open the door to a world of great opportunities.

The only opportunities I’m going to have are Wendys or Taco Bell!

College is the biggest legal ripoff in the country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
It's just like that drug dealer said to the arresting officer in 21 Jump Street:

"You know what the biggest employer in the ghetto is? ROCK Man!" "They don't have career day down here in the Piedmont! Welcome to the real world, Mr. Pow-liceman!

I would have been better off selling drugs rather than going to college and getting my worthless degrees.
 
Back in the 80’s, college graduates were rare, so they were considered valuable by employers. Back then a bachelor's degree practically guaranteed a good job. But since then, more and more people went to college, so now college graduates are no longer rare. Everyone has a degree now, and college grads have become a dime a dozen. With so many college grads applying for the same job, employers chose their candidates based on experience. It has rendered our degrees worthless.

The irony is that college educations have become more expensive since the 80’s, costing nearly $1000/week. Some people are graduating with as much as $120000 in debt from student loans. Our degrees have become less valuable and cost more.

Now college grads have to move back in with their parents because the only job they can get is flipping burgers at McDonald's with their worthless degrees. Some lie on the resume in a desperate attempt to get a job.

Society is still muddling in the muck of the 80's with the "College opens the door to a world of opportunities" crap, failing to account for all the screwed-over college grads flipping burgers at McDonald’s to pay their $30000 student loans.
 
Maybe Cho Seung-Hui did our society a favor. Just think: that's 33 people who won't end up flipping burgers to pay off their mountain of student loan debt. 33 people who aren't going stress through exams, lab reports, and homeworks - only to end up with worthless degrees.

How many more people are going to avoid college because of Cho? That's how many people who aren't going to get ripped off! They're not going to waste the time, money, and effort into getting a WORTHLESS DEGREE!
 
At some point they are going to have to start a charity fund for unemployed college graduates who can't get a job with their worthless degrees!

It really makes me sick when charities beg me for money when I have no job and a mountain of debt! It won't be long before I am begging alongside them!
 
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