Re:The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors
by kazinator on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:59PM
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Another take: whoever wrote is writing from a position of privilege.
"A humanities major at an Ivy League college opens up higher-earning opportunities later in life, like when you take over the reins of the family corporation."
It's also simply an outdated view. The strategy of going into humanities and finding higher earning later in life probably worked quite a bit better in 1972 than 2022.
Simply going to university was a sign of privilege half a century ago, and so you wouldn't discuss the associated prospects without assuming privilege.
Those not privileged who got into that environment would have been lifted in status by the contacts and the association with privilege.
Today, having a university degree is not an earmark of privilege, and you are less likely to make relationships at university which connect you with privilege. Depending on the school.
"A humanities major at an Ivy League college opens up higher-earning opportunities later in life, like when you take over the reins of the family corporation."
It's also simply an outdated view. The strategy of going into humanities and finding higher earning later in life probably worked quite a bit better in 1972 than 2022.
Simply going to university was a sign of privilege half a century ago, and so you wouldn't discuss the associated prospects without assuming privilege.
Those not privileged who got into that environment would have been lifted in status by the contacts and the association with privilege.
Today, having a university degree is not an earmark of privilege, and you are less likely to make relationships at university which connect you with privilege. Depending on the school.