Friday, July 6, 2012

My work day for the past two weeks

U.S. Universities, by State:

The link above gives a comprehensive list to EVERY university in these united states. I click on each and every school looking to see what degrees they offer to see if any need the services of my company. In doing this i have come to find Majors and Degrees I never knew existed in life. As a college drop out/wash out it's fairly disheartening work. I mean school really wasn't for me once I reached the collegiate level, but that could have partly been do to what my major was. I was 18 and desperate to make my mark in the world of Literature. So like any starry eyed 18 I dreamed bigger then sensible. I decided to become a CREATIVE WRITING MAJOR (all in all the most pointless degree offered in any major university at the time). After 2 semesters I knew I was doomed. How was I expected to focus on schooling when my future degree would achieve me nothing more then turning around and being a Professor of  creative Writing. I mean, I had been WRITING CREATIVELY since Jr High. What exactly was I expecting college courses to do for me?
Well going state by state degree plan by degree plan I have come to find other degrees I possibly could have sunk my 18 year old teeth into. I have come to find the newest seemingly easiest and most offered degree in the land currently is a BA in Sports Management. Yes, at the rate these colleges are going we will have FAR more Sports Agents then athletes. What all these new agents fail to realize is the degree they have is no more useful then any basic business degree  they could have gotten from any other school in the nation. It's just the idea of being part of the billion dollar sports industry that brings so many kids to the table. Now at least the Sports Management individuals can say their degree has some sort of point. My new personal favorite is a combo degree that has been popping up every now and again during my search. I'm speaking of the individuals who major in RHETORIC and splice it together with a minor in FOLKLORE. Yes, now that is a combo I could have really invested my time in. Rhetoric plain and simply is the art of bullshitting. You spend your time writing and/or reading papers, articles, all sorts of literature and make it seem more important then it is if produced by you and rip it apart when produced by others. It's the American way afterall. Now take your useless rhetoric degree and add a side of folklore which is basically the art of story telling and you have yourself a humdinger of a BA. If only the younger me had found this offering I'd be sitting here falling asleep doing the same thing I'm doing now, but with a degree in BULLSHIT to make myself feel much smarter then I really ever was. Oh well, you live you learn

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