/lit/ - Literature

I dropped out in middle school

>>14817545
i'm a bastard looking for the light.

I managed to get a BA in a hard science by doing a more science-y part of a Geography major. I'm retarded and the only things keeping me from giving up on being alive are my loved ones and anime girl escapism. I am afraid God will not save me because the priests tell me I am not good enough.

Philosophy and Econ. But I only take 3 econ classes a year.

>>14817545
>spent 6 years on an English MA
>3 years of it teaching basic lit to retard freshies
Kill me

>>14817545
Me.

>>14817582
> I am afraid God will not save me because the priests tell me I am not good enough.
I don't know what you are trying to imply with that statement. If you don't like the pastor, go to a different Church. If you agree with him, change yourself.

Psychiatrist

Nursingfag

>>14817545
im double majoring in philosophy and religious studies

bitcoin hodl'r and reader

>>14817750
Based also buy nyzo

>>14817545
sorta humanities

>>14817703
I'm not trying to imply anything? My community is very small. There are two denominations active in my area but in the priests in both of them denounce anybody who deviates from their respective doctrines as heretics. I mostly keep to myself and do my "heretic" business at home now.

I'm in Political Science.

>>14817545
College dropout working in the Trades, soon to run my own company

>>14817776
what denomination? if you're a 'heretic' according to their church doctrine then there is little point going to that church, even if you do it at home.

>>14817785
One is fairly traditional sort of Catholic and the other is a kind of Protestantism that I think comes from American television evangelists. There are also Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, but their churches here are very cult-like.

>>14817784
what trade?

>>14817790
I'd be a Catholic, but Mary worship is the genesis of all feminism.

>>14817801
Check out Lutheranism, it's all the good parts of Protestantism and Catholicism

>>14817545
I sure am.

>>14817801
I'm not a feminist because I do not agree with the materialism that underpins the feminist thinking where I live, although I am sympathetic to some of their aims. I love Saints Maria and Maria Magdalena very much. I aspire to be like them as much as I can.
>>14817805
I once went to a Lutheran church when I was a child because I was raised atheist but culturally Norwegian Lutheran. I like the Lutheran theology even if it isn't a perfect match for me.

>>14817829
begome catholic,
website made by beatified catholic zoomer documenting eucharist miracles:
http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/en/Liste/list.html

https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/mother-of-soon-to-be-blessed-carlo-acutis-Jesus-was-his-first-priority

>>14817856
I do believe in such miracles, but I can't become a Catholic and they would not baptize me, anyways. I believe that
>God is not omnipotent, but He is doing His very best and He loves all of us so very much
>the material world is Hell, separated from God and Paradise
>the material world is a closed system the contents of which pass through various natural cycles endlessly
>sin is a consequence of the scarcity of material resources, which causes us to be selfish and wicked towards each other and is the reason that every calorie we consume comes at the expense of another living being
>God uses His limited power to send us messengers like Christ and to work miracles to remind us that He is still there and loves each and every one of us
>upon death, each and every immaterial soul permeates the barrier between the material and the immaterial and is cleansed of its filth before entering Paradise
>we should not kill ourselves, though, because the greatest of the filial relationships is the relationship between God and us and as such the highest form of filial piety is for us in the meantime to do our very best to always do the right thing and to work to alleviate the suffering of all living things
>the material world will one day collapse under the weight of its own corruption, and this is coming very soon
It's not very Catholic even if it is technically Christian...

Lawyer here, does that count as humanities?

I have a BA in philosophy and will finish my BS in math this semester.

>>14817798
Carpenter for now

>>14817545
yeah i majored in philosophy and thank god too bc STEMlords are literally dumb af. why would i want to get a computer science degree and make a decent salary solving problems when i could struggle for 80 hours a week as a barista while i desperately apply to grad school? STEMlord bugmen btfo

>>14818012
Real carpentry or just nailing frames?

I am studying comparative literature (all classical languages) at an Ivy League university and I mostly come on here to tell people to shut the fuck up.

>>14817545
STEMfag here. I hate it and I’m just going to finish and try to join the military as an officer.

>>14817582
>>14817953
>>God is not omnipotent, but He is doing His very best and He loves all of us so very much
You should do you very best, too. :)
An anon is giving you cheers from somewhere far.

>>14817545
Religious studies here. I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing. I only hope I can subtlety redpill some students be means of Socratic inquiry.

>>14817801
You realize that, by thinking in such terms, you are at least as retarded as people who want to do a feminist reading of Homer, right?

i gave up my phd studies in medieval african agronomy to become a gimp and fuckslave for my black master.

>>14818044
Based youth corrupter.

>>14817545
Why one or the other? I'm a STEM-humanities hybrid. The humanities are far more important, though, so if I had to choose a side I'd side with them, even though professionally I'm a scientist.

>>14818050
What turned you off of the medieval African agronomy?

>>14818058
why read about strong black men ploughing when you can get ploughed instead

>>14818064
Well, I'm not gay, that's why.

>>14818044
>redpill
what kind of redpills are we talking about?

>>14817953
well, jehovahs believe god isnt omnipotent, im not sure if theyll accept the other beliefs. i strongly suggest you look into arguments for god that entail omnipotency.

>>14818110
the biggest redpill is that there's nothing as smooth as an amerindian woman's hair.

>>14818110
pro-tradition, anti-scientism, Heideggerian and Elulian technological scepticism, deconstruction of the current political paradigm, Foucauldian analysis of the liberal establishment, etc.

>>14818140
so basically just a larp

>>14818140
you should infiltrate the academy and disseminate traditionalism with me:
>>14817734

>>14818153
Sounds tempting, but I abhor the idea of going into graduate school.

>>14817545
History and International Relations.

>>14818192
>international relations
are you a girl

>>14817545
>25 years old
>still haven't started uni
>can't even pick a major
guess I'll have to go full STEMbug

>>14818198
Girls who pick a major based on their political convictions have the worst pussy.

>>14818242
Same but twenty-three. What went so wrong for us?

>>14818242
It's ok, buddy. It's really fucking ok. Get a STEMbug degree. I'm 27 and have a Master's, but that really doesn't mean anything and my life is shit. I'd trade my BS and MS for the 2 years difference we have.

>>14818249
bad pussy is best pussy

>English major
>not sure if I want to bother with grad school since the humanities is a dying branch anyways
What brand of bleach do you guys recommend?

>>14818304
Personally I think that the best pussy is good pussy.

>>14817545
the centrist social sciences actually

>>14818128
I already did. I wasn't convinced.

>>14817953
Anglican could work for you as there are Protestant and Catholic-Orthodox orientating beliefs.

>>14818650
perhaps revelationn will persuade?
>Luke 1:37 "For nothing will be impossible with God.
>Revelation 11:17 "We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

>>14817545
No. I'm a marine engineering student.

>>14818665
Thank you for the recommendation; I will look into Anglican churches in the next town over.
>>14818712
Scripture is material and written by men. It is not the word of God so much as an imperfect record of the word of God. Besides, I read those as statements of faith by the angel Gabriel and the "four and twenty elders" respectively.

>>14818198
No, I'm a guy.

I'm a language major studying for my meme degree and the only thing that keeps me from dropping out is being forced to work with my parents

>>14817545
I didn't go to a higher education facility

>>14817545
Law graduate.

>>14817545
No but I would consider myself an academic.

>>14817545
Mathematics is the humanities of STEM if we think about it

>>14818905
that's theoretical physics

>>14818905
>>14818908
evolutionary biology

>>14818914
nice resolution you homosexual

art history and anthropology

>>14817545
>tfw graduated with a BA in Literature
>now work as a full-stack software dev

You too can unironically learn to code.

>>14818905
It's really not. Mathematics is the most useful major for finding a job. The most useless major is straight Biology (and shit like Marine Bio). Those are the humanities of STEM.

>>14818982
How did you learn? I’d love to. I didn’t work at all in my BA since I felt all of it redundant and lost motivation early because of it

>>14819035
Coding bootcamp and studying for a year. Doing small projects and following tons of tutorials online. It's not impossible, but you do need some aptitude for it. And your first job will be hell since you'll be working full time and studying in your downtime to keep up.

>>14818982
But i don't want to be a code monkey

>>14819107
You can be a coffee monkey or a code monkey, your choice.

>>14818285
23 is the ideal age to start college.

>>14817601
This

Chemistry & biomedical sciences.
My job is a cheesemonger tho, never used my degrees, I just sell cheese and read books.

>>14819108
Nah I just opt out altogether. Bennies4lyf

>>14817545
>finishing masters in chemistry right now
>writing poetry as a hobby
>getting my first shit published in a few months
I made the right choice, couldn't imagine ever treating a hobby as a job

>>14818041
>God is not omnipotent
So not God then, sounds more like a Jeremy to me

>>14819154
ok dilettante

>>14817545
I think I'm the only business major on /lit/.

>>14818314
Do what I did and get a job in an academic library. Great pay, comfy, read all the books you like with no fines or fees...

CS
Used to be in Philosophy, but switched after realizing the Pre-Socratics already discovered it all.

>>14817545
i dropped out of uni twice and am unemployed

>>14817781
Same

But long-term I'll probably go to law school

BS Econ. I’m an analyst. It sucks.

Math major, philosophy minor. Would probably rather go full math, but things could certainly be worse. The more I read of contemporary academic philosophy the less I enjoy it, in general.

As an aside: some of you here fail to grasp that mathematics is just utterly poetic. I really don't know how to get across how beautiful this subject is; it's a shame they call it a science and not an art.

>>14819381

>College

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH (im coping)

>>14818296
>I'd trade my BS and MS for the 2 years difference we have.
why? you cant get a BS and MS in 2 years

English major, thinking of doing a minor or a masters in something more useful

>>14819875
what's bad about it? currently finishing my bachelors in econ and unsure whether to do a masters or going for an analyst position aswell

>>14818908
That's just math with extra steps

>>14821306
It’s just a bad fit for me I guess. I really hate corporate or business work in general but really hate finance. It’s completely mundane and you’re expected to be a socialite business bug basically. It’s the quintessential office drone job. Just a hyper-bourgeois desk jockey gig. The thing about a master’s is you’d end up in the same spot anyway unless you go for the PhD in my opinion.

>>14817545
I AM A WAGESLAVE CODEMONKEY I HAVE BECOME THE THING I HATE THE MOST AND NOW IT'S TOO LATE
I hope someone murders me

>>14817582
Geography is a based discipline, anon

>>14821048
I thought about switching to philosophy for graduate school but I think you’re right. Philosophy interests me but philosophy doesn’t interest me at all. I don’t know what to do now.

I dropped out of university and now I'm a welder.

I mostly just spam Wittgenstein, haven't read him though.

I study law, I've made some nice connections so hopefully I'll get a job that isn't just inheriting my grandfather's country lawyer office

>>14817545
Is stone carver a /lit/ profession? I'm thinking about doing an apprenticeship in that field after I'm done with my software dev training? Or is going to uni a better choice?

>>14817545
>Surely, no, right?
Everyone that posts here has authored a Habilitation on Big Chungus Theory

>>14821588
Absolutely

>>14821588
just make sure you wear proper respiratory protection.

>>14821553
I think it's still worth reading and doing philosophy because if you are doing something worthwhile and intellectually challenging you can't help but have philosophical questions about the nature of the work. It's hard exactly to articulate, but if you're thinking deeply and creatively, you'll naturally be led to question things more fundamentally.

Although, as you hint at, that doesn't mean you need to make a career out of philosophy specifically. What are your other options?

>>14821637
I smoke one and a half packs per day anon

>>14821568
Based

>>14821639
I don’t really know to be honest. >>14819875 is me. I don’t have any interest in continuing in that field but it also doesn’t really lend itself directly to other things. I don’t want to be a professor or anything. I’m just really interested in greek philosophy, modern philosophers who draw from it (there’s a few in particular), and ancient languages but no substantial interest in the rest of contemporary academic philosophy and none in analytic at all so far.

Double majored in undergrad so I guess I have two BAs, in my last semester of an MS program now, though

>>14821653
you should still take care of yourself, anon.

>>14821674
It certainly sounds like Classics would be more your speed. I don't know how relevant this is to you but here in the UK many schools (even good ones) are quite flexible regarding the undergrad degrees they will accept for masters studies; if it's any good to you, you might well be able to go back and get an MA in Classics, which would be a worthwhile pursuit, I would say.

Might be worth teaching yourself some Latin and Greek to show you're capable & motivated, if that's what you want to do.

At any rate, I hope you find something compelling.

>>14817545
I'll finish my BA in anthropology/sociology this year.

Where is my architecture bros at?? My family runs a development company I get to skip the 10 year postgrad slave period and go straight into big money starchitect larp.

>>14817545
>get bachelor's in history
>can't get a job with it, except professor
>need to get a PhD just to teach at a decent uni
>realize that you need to get a PhD to teach students your useless profession so they can teach more students your useless profession ad infinitum
>realize University is a huge pyramid scheme

>>14821790
>realize that you need to get a PhD to teach students your useless profession so they can teach more students your useless profession ad infinitum
such is the pointless cycle of the humanities

>>14821790
>>14821810
You're probably not PhD material if it took you that long to realize what was up.

>>14821834
>implying I'm still a uni cuck
You're probably brainlet material of you're still falling for the meme in current year

>>14817590
Based. Wish i did philosophy along with econ but unfortunately didnt have the foresight

Planning on being a evolutionary/organising biology and philosophy double major since I'd graduate in 2 1/2 to 3 years normally anyways

Anthropology and religion Masters race reporting in.

>>14821857
Is English your native language?

>>14819460
But how do you get a job in such a place though? Surely you can't just hand in your resume and you're hired, right?

>>14817959
>>14818897
>>14821576
How’s law school, anons. I don’t really have a burning desire to be a lawyer but I’ve been considering this option recently.

>>14817545
I graduated in STEM, but didn't get a job in that field so I feel like I wasted my time getting a degree that I wasn't actually all that interested in. A humanities degree may have offered a more interesting course of study with a very similiar economic outcome.

>>14817545
I’m majoring in pure maths. Still an undergrad. Planning on trying for a Master’s, maybe a PhD if I can afford it. I can’t imagine my life ending in any non-suicide way.

i double majored in mathematics and philosophy and am now in a social science phd program. hello to my fellow math boys and my fellow philosophy boys.

>>14822697
Which social science?

Dropped out of college, making 45k at two jobs, just bought a rent-generating property and have my eyes on a few more.

STEMfag microbio reporting in. Learning about disease is kinda cool.

I'm an accountant who wished he studied humanities. Accounting is soul crushing in its dullness.

>>14822451
Everyone will tell you not to go to law school. Law used to be a valued profession, now it's a cutthroat competition for the few jobs available. The market in the US is high supply of young lawyers and little demand for them; that is, oversaturated as hell. Additionally, services like LexusNexus and consultants are reducing the need for individual lawyers. If you get a law degree from any school all willy nilly, you will be $200,000 in debt and no more marketable than when you started.
The only reasons to go to law school are:
1. You get into a T14 school and you can hack 3yrs with good grades to get into BigLaw
2. T100 but you're going to be working in your state in a specific role YOU CAN SECURE
3. T100 but you're going into patent law or something that YOU CAN SECURE
And you have scholarships or wealthy parents to foot the bill. If you're getting a loan, forget it.
Ultimately, since you said you don't have a "burning desire", forget law school anon. You need that desire to even survive in this profession, cause your education is expensive and loans are debilitating. If you can't get a high paying job, they'll haunt you for the rest of your life.

>>14819451
Nope, graduated with a BBA in Computer Information Systems here, took many business classes including microeco, macro, corp finance, accounting, marketing, management, bus policy, etc.

>/lit/ tells me to study humanities or kms
>study humanities anyway
>no job expectation after HS
>prof just tells me to study highly demanded languages
>already know latin and spanish also took a few phonetic linguistic classes so just go from there and attempt to learn other similar languages
>Get paid just to show up to court proceedings for hardly not that long
>Depending on how much money I want to make in a week I can just go do jobs

I have so many options, why the fuck do people say its a hopeless field? It's honestly all about YOUR utility. Yea you can write a paper but what else can you do? I have a buddy thats so good with talking he managed to reach a top economic adviser position for a insurance company despite having a M.A. in philosophy and nothing in economics. Also know tons of people that are now working in foreign services. There are jobs out there you just have to look for them.

>>14823235
Most regular English / Philo / Classics majors are guys who are going for any degree in college and aren't thinking about what kinda job they can set themselves up for. Most /lit/ anons are antisocial types who just like reading, so they'll never work on their social skills or learn in demand skills like languages since it'll taint their ideal of the "lonely misunderstood literature boy who reads Pynchon and Hawthorne" 4chan and tumblr are the same lol
So for most people, it's better to get a more in-demand or marketable degree anyway since they won't put in the work to make their humanities degrees worth something.

Math/physics, but I'm taking as many philosophy classes as I can, so I can build up my writing that I'll apply to grad school for philosophy with.

>>14823325
Or you could get a job as a projectionist.

>>14817707
How's school? Is it tough?

I have no idea what to do with my life. I wish I could just be a steppe nomad and be free but that's impossible escapist fantasy. I wish I could be a monk but that's the same deal. I have no need for material luxury but my only options in life are to endlessly chase material luxury and be miserable.

>>14817582
Geography major here. It’s worked out ok for me at least. Gotta admit I’d rather be in academia studying than working with GIS but you do what you have to

>>14817545
mechanical engineer

How difficult is it really to get into academia? Would love to be an archeologist or study theology or anthropology like the philanthropists of old but that seems like a pipe dream now. From what I've heard it sounds hard to just survive with any humanities degree.

>>14823970
It's hell and not worth the work / debasement of your character for such little pay.

>>/lit/thread/S13099088#p13099253

>>14823542
What?

Computer Science here

>>14817545
Economics is a humanties so yes.

>>14817545
I study Bio but have always loved History. Kinda prefer it this way since I feel much more well-rounded as an academic when I can talk across disciplines. Meeting STEM folks who don’t even know how to think critically is extremely cringe and they’re usually less than worthless in terms of projects and research.

>>14825031
It’s a social science. Some schools might consider it a humanities but it is really not at all.

I didn’t study humanities in undergraduate but I’m thinking about going back to school for theology.

>>14819451
I'm a supply chain management major. I majored in philosophy when I first came to college but I switched once I realized that you pretty much can't do anything with a degree in philosophy outside of law school and academia.

I'm majoring in English Lit and it's not even my native language and you can't stop me Edelposter

What's the degree that will assure you a full time job in a good company with suits and good pay?
Something in business?

BA in English

Then law school

Then graduate law school

All good, but literature is what I love most

Unlike many lawyers, I enjoy practicing law very much

I am a fucking translator living in Russia. I want to kill myself.

Is anyone actually happy with their life choices? Everyone I see irl and online has depression or hates their life/job unless they're over the age of 45.

I'm majoring in Political Science and frankly I'd like to go back to minimum wage labor, it was much less unpleasant than college

I'm not majoring in anything, nor have I

English major, history minor.

And maybe I'll actually go to classes next semester.

Business Major(omis) with a hobby.

>>14826076
Oh man you must be surrounded by midwits

>>14817545
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Cl0CgU_q8

FUCK EDELGARD
DIMITRI FOR LIFE

Never went to university. I work part time as a cleaner which gives me plenty of money and time for books. I don't really aspire to anything beyond this.

Political Science

>>14817545
Medicine but i did it as a postgrad after zoology. Most STEM people are awfully cringy and embody the modern phenomena of scientism but most of the non-STEM people are meet aren't much different. I'm glad I studied biology rather than literature while still maintaining an interest in writing and philosophy (as many questions cannot be answered by science), it gives you a more complete and diverse outlook. Plus it's way easier to justify being right wing with biology than with philosophy

>>14826105
True but I dont give a shit about them.

>>14817734
>>14818153
Very based. I myself am studying math and theology. Hope to see you brothers successfully consume your university from within with the Divine Fire of Guenon (pbuh).

>>14817545
done electrical engineering
now almost full year as a RTL designer
after all these years i see, i will never be truly happy because engineering is simply boring
but there is cash there

>>14817707
tell me more, i’m otw myself hopefully

>>14826845
Extremely based, anon. Are you in undergrad? What are you plans for those? I already graduated with a bug degree but I’m unironically considering going back to school for one of these two.

>>14819451
Get out while you can, anon.

Studying Law, even though I’m hardly interested in it. Something like literature or linguistics sounds a lot more interesting. Still, I’m somehow coasting by with above average grades despite my lack of interest and effort, so might as well finish the damn thing. University is 1000€/year where I live fortunately so it’s not like I’ll get fucked by debt

>>14817545
Computer science, because I'm not retarded and don't want to be poor

>>14825033
This. I'm in business but I study history and literature on my own time.

>>14817545
i didn't finish highschool

>>14823325
gaudy room tbqhnglf

Organic chemistry PhD.

Earthscience. Best you can do. It needs you to be able to think a certain way i am never able to explain to other people. Like they start: Whats so awesome about rocks you need to study them? Most people seem not to understand i do not only study what the world is composed of but also how it functions. Also its humilating and kind of my fetish how much we still dont know about that 'rock' we live on.

End of blog. tl;dr Geology is a gneiss major

>>14817545
i'm STEM but i just want to say that being a STEMlord doesn't automatically mean you are soulless or a """bugman"""

tons of math majors are cool/multifaceted as fuck, also computer science/technology/I.T. is such a large discipline now that there are plenty of well-adjusted interesting people in there

>>14827260
Based

No, but I really regret my major even more than my horrible grades.

>>14817734
My bröther, same here but with a minor focused on classical and medieval studies as well

>>14827339
>doesn't automatically mean you are soulless or a """bugman"""
Maybe not, but the work that most STEM majors go into after college usually does

I'm no major

>>14827556
Getting sassy, Private? Drop down and give me 20, NOW.

Everyday in STEM makes me wanna kill myself. I'm stuck in a lab counting cells. Even if I only have 1 quarter left until graduation I'm not sure I will make it. How do you cope anon?

>>14827667
Maths major here. I don't even have to sit in a lab but I feel like this too. I'm not even sure I want to make it.

>>14826872
What do you want to know?

>>14827667
You have my condolences. Although I have to ask how why you allowed this to happen.

>>14827918
I thought I should do an easy lab so I can focus on my studies. Now my grades are dropping and I'm stuck here counting cells. I have to count 10k cells a day.

History major, criminology minor

>>14828225
get counting

Does it really matter anymore, anons?

>>14828280
post feet

Anyone here do PPE?

>>14828288
Kek

>>14817953
this is just marxism??

>>14827542
what work is that?

>>14817545
never went. I'm a truck driver btw. Lots of good audio books on the road

>>14817601
In my first year lit class a girl spent the entire time complaining about the Tempest because of the "problematic enslavement of Caliban" you know, the literal monster subhuman who tries to violently rape Prospero's daughter.

>>14817784
Based asf. I dropped out of pol sci and am looking into trades right now.

>>14817553
Same. Got the GED tho

>>14829376
Progressivism is a mistake.

Finishing my master's thesis in economics at the moment, I will continue in a statistics / econometrics PhD program in the autumn.

>>14823932
How did you go about getting a job with GIS? any tips for recent grad?

>>14817545
polisci
unemployed
regretting everything

>>14823897
Why is becoming a monk an impossible fantasy? I've been seriously considering becoming a monk myself recently.

>>14829944
How is it anon? I absolutely detested my econ bs but I don’t know if I have any other grad school options.

>>14828948
Working for any big tech company is immediate bugman flag, even more so if in silicon valley, and doubly more so if it's for a fucking social media company
Trying to "woah bro let's do a startup" but all it is is some techonofilic app that tries to digitize something that doesn't need to be, or even worse it's blockchain related
I guess I'm mostly looking at IT/CS people when saying this, but I know it from experience in the field myself

>>14817545
comp sci major, just end my suffering

>>14831378
poor fag detected, i repeat, poor fag detected in aisle 6

>you wanna go to school for love of life rather than making money? big mistake bucko

>>14817545
honestely anyone who gets a humanities major that isnt either: old money white person or: mega autist that turns into a professor, is wasting time and money and going to ruin their life

>>14831524
>but I know it from experience in the field myself
I do programming for a living you illiterate mongoloid, doesn't change the fact that it's soulless bugman work

>>14831546
>admits his work is bugman work
>calls other mongoloids

>>14831546

put the soul in it yourself

>>14831571
The only soul to be gained from it is that I'll be able to retire early and have a pension

>>14818034
Bro, i am literally doing the exact same thing. Junior in engineering & i hate it. I want to go marines or army

>>14818034
>>14831642
Go air force

Doing an English BA will be done Summer 2021. Doing an internship in the Fall will see if I can get another one right after. Not sure what I am doing after might get some officecuck job. I chose English because I thought I would be unhappy no matter what I do so might as well try to do things I like.

>>14831595
I see you have discovered the great truth hidden from Zoomers that work is separate from hobbies. The bugman aspect of tech jobs is that people build their whole identity around it as if it's some great thing.
The reality is that making websites is boring as fuck. Once you've made one, you've made them all; they call it CRUD for a reason. Just as boring as factory work.
Same shit when these "people" get excited about a new framework. It's like getting excited over a new, slightly different, hammer. Sure it might drive some nails better than other hammers but you still shouldn't use it to drive a screw.

Do I get a bachelor's in asian studies and do the JET program? Not memeing.

>>14831840
Well the JET program is only 5 years and not a career and they don't care what degree you get. They would more so consider stuff like volunteer experience and love for culture.

>>14817545
Assyriology.

>>14827877
what keeps you going day to day?
do you feel trapped?
do you often feel sick of your patients?
what is great about life as a psychiatrist?

>>14831378
I fell for the Wall Street meme which almost the same thing and I have to completely agree.

>>14831923
Extremely based. Wish I had studied ancient med studies or greco-roman classics.

>>14817707
How is it? Is the schooling hard?

>>14831923
>why yes I do study ass for a living, how could you tell?

>>14817582
Become a deist.

>>14823440
Struck a nerve I see.

>>14817545
why yes i am a Theology major

>>14831642
Have fun dying for Isreal

>>14832818
Yes, but that was two days ago. I'm fine now.

>>14817545
computer science
yet to meet interesting people
it hurts

>>14831833
>hidden from Zoomers
I wouldn't say that it's hidden, I would say it's more like corporations are actively trying to kill the notion of work-life balance. Corporations nowadays want worker drones that are available to work 24/7 and thanks to technology it's possible for them to do that.
Not too long ago one of my professors invited a guest speaker to class (he was some high ranking manager a Gallup) and one of the things he talked about was that young people didn't want work-life balance and the entire time I was thinking about how he was full of shit.

>>14817545
3rd year Philosophy and Math double major.

I'm studying electrical engineering and mathematics.
I hate science, I just want to hide in bed and do magic.

>>14829376
read aime cesaire and postcolonial interpretations of caliban, she wasn't too far off the mark

I hate Edelgard and I hate her horrible route.

>>14830608
I really like it, thanks for asking! I specialize in macroeconometrics like time series analysis and statistical learning in macro applications. Very math heavy. A lot of modern empirical econ is applied micro / labour / political economy etc, but I was never that interested in that side.

>>14817545
Medical school. The calculating, analytical mindset of breaking down people and personalities to come to diagnoses shines through in what I write, and idk if that's a good thing.

>>14817984
absolutely based.

>>14817545
Majoring in mathematics for fun while working as a software dev not-quite-full-time.

Frankly all my needs are met so I'm just doing whatever at this point.

>>14818034
>>14831642
doing STEM at day, hating it but powering through regardless, while studying philosophy and literature at night is the only good way, anons. based polymaths in the making.

>>14818896
based retard.

>>14821588
there surely is more honour in that than a soul crushing wageslave job. do it, anon.

His/English major here in my Euro country and it was the biggest mistake of my life. Absolutely useless degree.

>95 % of anons in this thread are cringe humanities majors
the absolute state of this board.

>>14835763
Are you in the USA? Any tips for premed?

>>14817545
Comp Sci, imagine getting a degree in humanities lmao

>>14835966
Imagine getting a degree in compsci

>>14836036
it’s a lowly science, but a science nonetheless, so: cope harder, fries-server.

>>14817545
I major in linguistics. At least I'll be able to get a job as a computational linguist when the machines take over (if I take computer science that is).

>>14825687
A quantitative business major, if you can double major do a Quant major and an easier business major. Data Sci + anything looks great, Comp Sci + finance or economics is great.

>>14835747
I think that’s what I would try to focus on if I did continue with econ. The math was the only part that ever really interested me. I really hated econ desu but grad school is a personal goal of mine and it’s not like I could just switch to something else. Good to know you enjoy it at least.

>>14831949
>what keeps me going day to day?
The same things that keep everybody going I guess!
>Trapped
Why would I??
>Sick of patients?
Not at all, I know some people that get affected by it, but maybe I'm not empathetic enough. Sometimes I get very worried about some of them, when they are at high risk of suicide or homicide, or starvation.
>Great about psychiatrist life?
1. You get to study some of the most interesting problems of humanity: epistemology of the mind, the complex functions of the brain, and some deep psychological problems, and how to tie all of this together.
2. Developing discipline, so plenty of need for research and theorizing, and kind of an unknown terrain to explore.
3. You get to SEE all this, you see how the mind develops, breaks and heals, so no stupid brain or mind speculations without feedback from reality (like the ones you see here).
4. Useful for personal growth. MDs that follow other specialties are kind of arrogant and narrow minded.

>>14832211
Not if you really like it actually

>>14818034
Military is awful, choose something else

>>14819579
same

>Degree in Economics
Eh, it's pretty cool
>Master in Analytic Economics
Lots of Maths, Statistics, Political theory. Actually an even cooler challenge.

The only thing I despise from my field is Econ """theory""", because human behavior can not be predicted with the accuracy that we want. That is why I started reading Neuroscience and Moral Philosophy and coming to /lit/. It fills that void.

Been working at a bank for a year, now looking for a better paid job at Business Intelligence. So I am reviewing my Statistics classes and learning extra code languages. Philosophy is for my free time.

Cs subhuman here

>>14817582
No one is good enough, that's why we need Jesus to bear our sins.

>>14836820
>Commie Elysium image
Didn't need to say you were a subhuman tbqh

>>14836108
You can learn compsci in your own time just like any humanities. You don't need a degree in it for a job. Only degrees you need for jobs are specifically vocational ones like medicine. lowly stemfag cope

>>14817545
Computer Science and Philosphy. I justw ant to do philsophy but I have to do CS as well to satisfy parents and make money and survive and shit. Hopefully I will be able to power through.

>>14836597
If I strongly disliked my econ undergrad, would I also dislike graduate school or is it very different? My interest has always been humanities and philosophy. I didn’t mind the pure math and stats so much and I didn’t totally hate the political theory. I hated pretty much everything else that even approached finance. I would just do something else but it seems like an econ bs doesn’t really lend itself to anything else desu.

>>14837274
Luckily for you there's a good overlap in logic between the two

>>14836286
thanks, that’s a really encouraging insight. which country do you work in, and do you find much time to read? what were the last few books you read? thanks

>>14835939
not that guy but anki is the answer.

There is literally no reason to take any humanities courses

>>14837821
I'm from Argentina and work there. It's a good place for this career because the fascination with technology is less intense than in "first world countries", where epistemology, psychology and semiology have been replaced by a naive worshipping of neuroscience. Here, it is possible to develop a deeper understanding of the history of this discipline, of its epistemological frameworks, and the richness and variety of the clinical aspects of psychiatry. Of course, we have limited variety of medication, and access to technology is difficult. It can be said that we know how to play, but don't have the toys, and it's the other way around in more advanced countries. But well, you get what you get.
I have less time to read than before, but still read a lot.
Last books:
-Brett - History of psychology
-Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations
-Cortázar - Los Autonautas de la Cosmopista
-Dilthey - Introduction to the social sciences
-von Wright - Explanation and Understanding
-Hemingway - For whom the bell tolls
-Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

>>14837955
>where epistemology, psychology and semiology have been replaced by a naive worshipping of neuroscience
is this some sort of freudian cope

>>14837962
What? Psychoanalysis is mostly pseudoscience. How does it relate to what I said?

>>14837955
sounds good, i’m pretty frustrated that here in the uk there’s a very set path on what you can or can’t think let alone do as a psychiatrist

>>14817582
us geography majors are a rare breed, especially in the states

>>14838081
Sorry to hear that, but maybe you can change it from inside.

>>14837341
I enjoyed the Masters in Economics much more and it felt very different to undergrad. People in grad school were also more interesting, it definitely was a pleb filter. But it's more math heavy and I personally struggled. Going to a Master's is basically to prepare you to the PhD, something I will not do, because I'd rather apply my Econometric knowledge in the private sector than pursue Academia, which for Econ is just a sect / echo chamber, I recognize this despite having enjoyed the challenge and made good contacts.
Around 70% of Econ research papers are never read by anyone ever, much less discussed and replicated. So if you don't have passion for academic Econ, don't enroll and just improve the demanded skills for the job market.

Electronics and Telecommunications undergrad

How do you guys deal with retarded females that ask questions about the text that clearly reveal they didn't read the text? Like the most basic question that is addressed in the text, and they ask to sound smart. Why don't professors or MA students shut them up? Every prof I've had has entertained their idiocy. Why?

>>14839138
they dont want to be mean thats why.

EE. Brain is too smooth to make it as a writer.

Ending BA in World Philosophies, don't know what to think and where to go after, on one I look into maybe Management but I know I would have to deal with midwits, or just fuck it, take a break for the year and do Biblical Studies at Oxbridge and then just continue in academia through doing more and more obscure research which matters to someone.

>>14838866
I don’t have a passion for it at all but I hate white collar world even more than I hated undergrad and I’m definitely going to go to school so I don’t know what I’ll do desu.

>>14818024
Real carpentry as in hand built staircases and such