coming from an english major who's become a web and print designer and married to an english professor, one word: bullshit.
you are what you decide you will be, coupled with social/economic forces outside your control. learn to adapt, expand, and interview. i have at least 16 engineer friends from the college days (i started out thinking i would be an engineer, so i still keep in touch with a lot of them), and at least half are unemployed and/or miserable. either they couldn't communicate well enough to get in the door of the job they wanted, or when the economy turned to crap, they couldn't duck and weave to keep up. case in point: i can freelance my design work. they can't be freelance engineers... well, i don't THINK they can)
i'm a good worker, and as my career has shown, my english degree has allowed me to get my foot in the door and interview into jobs where competition was stiff.
god i hate it when people diss the english majors.
I had no intention of offending english majors. Some of my best friends are english majors. To be fair, when I dropped out I was broke and going to the School of Broken Dreams (aka York U in Toronto) so I had little incentive at the time to stick around. If I do ever decide to finish off my degree I'd obviously stick to english. I wasn't one of the kids that picked English as a default because I couldn't think of anything better.
The problem is I'm still pretty bitter from my charming experience at York.
On a side note, I've noticed that english majors are pretty testy when in comes to their chosen field. I've had more than a few jump down my throat for slagging the degree.
I am looking for a summer internship/co-op. It is a requirement and worth between 9 to 12 credits. I am majoring in Information Technology - Network Administration.
Besides the Pacific NW, any suggestion on other cities?
hmmm i'd imagine houston, new york, and chicago would all be good places... after all, houston is the next hollywood! (if you ever frequent cgchannel.com, then you know what i mean)
I had no intention of offending english majors. Some of my best friends are english majors. To be fair, when I dropped out I was broke and going to the School of Broken Dreams (aka York U in Toronto) so I had little incentive at the time to stick around. If I do ever decide to finish off my degree I'd obviously stick to english. I wasn't one of the kids that picked English as a default because I couldn't think of anything better.
The problem is I'm still pretty bitter from my charming experience at York.
On a side note, I've noticed that english majors are pretty testy when in comes to their chosen field. I've had more than a few jump down my throat for slagging the degree.
sigh. guess i was a little testy there. sorry. it's just that a lot of people label myself and my wife as useless as soon as they hear we have an english degree. questions like "what do you plan to do with that?" or "so what do you really do? you know, for a living..." i think, like mac users, we are often called upon to defend or chosen path over and over and over...
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Originally posted by rok
coming from an english major who's become a web and print designer and married to an english professor, one word: bullshit.
you are what you decide you will be, coupled with social/economic forces outside your control. learn to adapt, expand, and interview. i have at least 16 engineer friends from the college days (i started out thinking i would be an engineer, so i still keep in touch with a lot of them), and at least half are unemployed and/or miserable. either they couldn't communicate well enough to get in the door of the job they wanted, or when the economy turned to crap, they couldn't duck and weave to keep up. case in point: i can freelance my design work. they can't be freelance engineers... well, i don't THINK they can)
i'm a good worker, and as my career has shown, my english degree has allowed me to get my foot in the door and interview into jobs where competition was stiff.
god i hate it when people diss the english majors.
I had no intention of offending english majors. Some of my best friends are english majors. To be fair, when I dropped out I was broke and going to the School of Broken Dreams (aka York U in Toronto) so I had little incentive at the time to stick around. If I do ever decide to finish off my degree I'd obviously stick to english. I wasn't one of the kids that picked English as a default because I couldn't think of anything better.
The problem is I'm still pretty bitter from my charming experience at York.
On a side note, I've noticed that english majors are pretty testy when in comes to their chosen field. I've had more than a few jump down my throat for slagging the degree.
Originally posted by Kenneth
I am looking for a summer internship/co-op. It is a requirement and worth between 9 to 12 credits. I am majoring in Information Technology - Network Administration.
Besides the Pacific NW, any suggestion on other cities?
hmmm i'd imagine houston, new york, and chicago would all be good places... after all, houston is the next hollywood! (if you ever frequent cgchannel.com, then you know what i mean)
Originally posted by InactionMan
I had no intention of offending english majors. Some of my best friends are english majors. To be fair, when I dropped out I was broke and going to the School of Broken Dreams (aka York U in Toronto) so I had little incentive at the time to stick around. If I do ever decide to finish off my degree I'd obviously stick to english. I wasn't one of the kids that picked English as a default because I couldn't think of anything better.
The problem is I'm still pretty bitter from my charming experience at York.
On a side note, I've noticed that english majors are pretty testy when in comes to their chosen field. I've had more than a few jump down my throat for slagging the degree.
sigh. guess i was a little testy there. sorry. it's just that a lot of people label myself and my wife as useless as soon as they hear we have an english degree. questions like "what do you plan to do with that?" or "so what do you really do? you know, for a living..." i think, like mac users, we are often called upon to defend or chosen path over and over and over...