US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs

Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment... by jjice on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:06AM (#45139443)

I was under the impression that your graduate degrees didn't have to be related to undergrad at all, but I know nothing about these corners of higher education.

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Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment... by MangoToupe on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:07AM (#45139448)

That's correct. If you can convince a doctoral program to take you, you can get a PhD in it.

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Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment... by Traubenfuchs on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:15AM (#45139543)

I know a big 4 strategy consultant who has a bachelor and master degree in business who, for some reason, could only get a phd position at our local university of agriculture/brewery/bio-technology and wrote a pointless thesis about a sustainability topic he had zero interest in to get his stupid phd title.

Now he is earning breath taking amounts of money by churning out power point documents so I guess his path was correct.

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Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment... by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:34AM (#45139775)

If they are pointless power point documents about topics he has zero interest in, then it may have been good training...

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Re:US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment... by dragonwriter on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:01PM (#45140828)

Yeah, one of my friends in college got his BA in Rhetoric & Communication and was accepted directly into a Physics Ph. D. program.

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