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On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:49:33 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On 6/18/12 3:34 PM, wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:30:58 -0400, X ` Man wrote: On the other hand, I know plenty of liberal arts grads who are pulling down six figure incomes at jobs with pretty decent benefits, and who weren't trained by the navy. Doing what? Do you even know what "the liberal arts" are? yes I have friends who are professors at several local universities who are earning six figure salaries, and they are all liberal arts grads. My daughter's father in law would be surprised at that.e retired as a history professor at a state university and he never made that much money. He says his wife made more money some years as an ER nurse but he admits she worked a lot harder than him. He insisted that all his kids get degrees in science or engineering. Most of my advertising, PR and marketing colleagues earn substantial six figure salaries and bonuses. That sounds right if they can sell but if you can sell you don't need a degree. There are many scientists at the NIH and other health and science related agencies that earn in the six figures. Those are science degrees aren't they? BYW are they government employees? What grade? A 6 figure GS salary is rare. We know at least a dozen psychotherapists who earn more than $100,000 a year. MDs OK The highest salaried guy I know as a close friend, a recent retiree, earned more than $500,000 a year at his job. He's a lit and history grad of the University of Notre Dame. Again doing what? I know dozens and dozens of liberal arts grads earning well over $100,000 a year. As far as I know, none were trained by the Navy. I didn't say the navy was the only place you could get knowledge, just that it was a good place to get it in a hurry. 18 weeks of a 8 hour a day school is equal to about 48 credit hours of college in classroom time. When you toss out the fluff courses kids pad out their schedule with that is plenty of time. I had closer to 10,000 hours of education at IBM and I have hundreds of hours for my inspector license. I am not afraid of learning. I like it. I just want to go at a faster pace. ------------------------------ Lots of those Liberal Arts degrees are professors at college. Making way more than they should earn. My cousin is a dean of the department at one of the California colleges. He gets POed at the amount of pay a lot of the profs are pulling down. They do very little actual education, and work about 20 hours a week in the classroom. Probably 8 hours at the most out of the classroom. Same thing could be taught by a TA reading the same book to the class. I retired out of an industry in 2001 where the pay scale was mostly $100+ for all the engineers. Even a few without college degrees. A heck of a lot more than those with liberal arts degrees. We had one administrative assistant who we finally gave a career redirection. She was very proud of her English degree and figured she did not have to file papers for the department as she had a degree. But she was in an Admin slot as she was to be laid off in another slot. And most of what you learned in college was not ever needed. They figured engineers at about 8% were the highest users, while most others were in the 5% bracket. As to learning in the Navy. We always wanted the Navy techs as they were the best. They actually knew how electronics worked. |
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