Three Cornell professors, each with a B.A. in English, encouraged students at a panel discussion Wednesday to pursue their passion for studying English, even if the field’s career prospects are not necessarily lucrative.In other words, yes, you are going to live in the garage*. You are not going to find a job as an English major that will pay the costs of your English major, especially one from Cornell**. Your parents know you're going to live in the garage. Your professors will tell you that you're going to live in the garage even while they tell you what a great person you are for doing it.
...“I am going to touch on what to tell your parents when they say, ‘What are you doing? Are you going to live in a garage?’” Schwarz said.
Adopting a more somber tone, Schwarz told the audience — primarily filled with English majors seeking career advice — that they are studying English for the sake of intellectual, as opposed to monetary, gain.
You should know perfectly well that when you study anything "as opposed to monetary gain," you're not bloody likely to get any monetary gain from it.
But never let that stop you from blaming someone else.
* Unless you're Bethany, then you're going to live on base.
** At more than $40k/year before room and board.
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I've already warned my 13 yr old that if she picks a major that won't result in a decent paying job, I'm not helping with the cost at all.
Since I'm the only one of your kids that majored in English and the only one who doesn't live with you, maybe you should be nicer to English majors.
To be fair, I specifically exempted you. You have never blamed anyone else for the consequences of your choices.
Since every good job using English language doesn't require a degree in English (writer, journalist, elementary school teacher, blogger, newspaper editor) to be successful, it really is nothing more than a hobby degree. Hobbies are for people who can afford them. But English majors (and a lot of the other humanities) don't cover things like Return on investment, present value, or planing for your future.
Well, the chick in image, along with many (most) English degree earners, will either:
A) Marry someone who did not get an English degree, making a significant income.
or
B) Go into teaching in a state with a powerful union, then pass the costs of the BA (and likely MA/PhD) degrees onto the tax payer. Loans of any balance can be forgiven completely after only five years of teaching in such a state.
Oh, that's a dude in that picture.
Eh, my point still stands...
Huckleberry, Why did you conclude it was a dude? The sign says "I am a woman". It leaves off "Hear me roar" but maybe the sign board just wasn't big enough.
Man hands and the figure of a 2X4.
If that's actually a woman, than I'm a compassionate human being, because English words no longer mean what they're supposed to...
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