/lit/ - Literature

History

History

>>18424405
History

not history

Unironically history

>>18424450
>>18424455
>>18424457
>>18424475
No wonder this board sucks.

>>18424450
What is a college major, like an elective module? Then yeah history

Philosophy major
Ancient philology, economics minors.

Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Honors
Yes I will have an actual job when I graduate.

>>18424481
fag detected
>>18424482
drone detected

I am getting an MS in Business IT. I wish I could just live the /lit/ lifestyle permanently but that doesn’t pay the bills

Computer Science

I don't read or post here, though

>>18424405
Communication

>Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Honors
>Yes I will have an actual job when I graduate.

>>18424486
Yeah but you will be a wageslave cuck

>>18424496
>studying what other people did in the past instead of doing something new

medical doctor

>>18424502
>>studying what other people did in the past instead of doing something new
Literally shithead retard kid at the back of the 5th grade class tier take on the subject

>>18424405
Agriculture, never finished though

>>18424500
as opposed to what? a poverty stricken NEET? Anyway it's not wage slaving if you enjoy what you do, which is problem solving and designing.

Economics

Electrical Engineering and boy was it a mistake. Before covid and getting to fake work from home for a year I was so bored with life I was getting blackout drunk on most weeknights to dull the monotony.

I'm a stemfag

>>18424502
>doing something new
99.99% chance you will not do anything new

>>18424513
what work do you do for what company?

math

>>18424502
Philosophy has no use. History has actual purpose. Museums, art galleries, archiving, librarian, journalism, historical consulting for movies/documentary, private services like genealogy/other historical work. List goes on

>>18424502
darn

>>18424519
My Honors thesis is already something new. And maybe I'll do a PhD if I find something else interesting.

>>18424405
Pre-Med (7yr program)

>>18424510
You must be autistic if you enjoy playing with spicy legos

>>18424529
>My Honors thesis is already something new
LMFAO he's an undergrad and he's already a delusional academia faggot

>+30 posts
>0 literature majors

>>18424529
>My Honors thesis is already something new

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I bet that has never been typed out before

>>18424543
No one here posts about literature lol

>>18424534
what are you even saying lmao
designing circuits is fun
creating drones is fun
developing AI is fun

>>18424540
I'm developing a product which doesn't exist on the market
2 years ago a group of undergrads developed a product and got $400,000 in investment and started a company that currently sells their products all over the country

>>18424543

>>18424551
>I'm developing a product which doesn't exist on the market
I know thousands of delusional clowns like you
t. bay area fag
>2 years ago a group of undergrads developed a product and got $400,000 in investment
WHOA BRO I bet you want to be like ELON right !!!!!! AWesome, you can totally do it bro, just rise, grind, and work hard my nigga

>>18424551
>designing circuits is fun
>creating drones is fun
>developing AI is fun
Literally autism. There is no soul in stem. Chinese slaves do the same thing you do and better

>>18424551
>in investment and started a company that currently sells their products all over the country
It's going to fail and you're going to lose your job

>>18424551
99% chance you just end up a wageslave
Which is fine, stem wage slaves are the best bet. Like being a house slave in ancient rome, nothing wrong with that, be proud. Not trying to pull you down like a crab, just being honest. The people who are successful are very rarely stem people themselves

>>18424521
Nigga the fuck would I answer that for

>>18424551
Damn I remember being 19

>>18424570
I know a stanford kid that got $3 million for his bullshit startup and then just bailed after a few months with the money. So much easy money thrown around in tech right now, so many bullshit ideas

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>>18424581
salty liberal arts majors
haven't you got burgers to flip

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>>18424548
Well, most literature majors I know don't know or care much about literature anyways. Same with film majors, I took some film classes as electives and whenever we were asked what our favorite films were as an ice-breaker nobody could name a film that wasn't American or made before the 2000s. Also, nobody watched films outside of what we were assigned to watch for class. I've always wondered why it's like this

>>18424405
Currently doing my PhD in forest ecology

>>18424513
>I was so bored with life I was getting blackout drunk on most weeknights to dull the monotony.

>>18424590
because I'm trying to understand how you can think electrical engineering is monotonous. And the simple answer is that you're not an electrical engineer and you're just larping.

Bcom
Major: Finance
Minor: Business Economics

>>18424600
>community college experience in Missouri is an adequate representation of liberal arts majors
anon, I...

>>18424405
i dropped out after 2 days

Double majored in English - Literature and History.

>>18424595
kek, i feel this in my soul

>>18424405
Double major in economics and math at a top 30 school. Plan to do my masters in financial economics and econometrics. I’ll be making six figures in no time, all while comfortably reading literature on the side.

>>18424595
How does it feel that your mind is filled with useless shit which has literally 0 use but to make techbros billionaires while you wagecuck 80 hours a week for an okay living until you are automated? There is a reason 50 year olds go through mid life crisis. Hope you don't kill yourself

>>18424615
I went to UPenn. Also, I've spoken to people who went to film school and they report the same thing. Professors complain about it as well.

>>18424633
lmao and what to you do? Neet it up in your mothers basement? Or will you take my order for coffee?
And where do you think the techbros come from? Most of them are engineers in silicon valley you spastic.

>>18424653
You think it's the same in Europe?

>>18424546
Library of Babel

>>18424610
It's literally bug work divorced from the questions of life, dependent on abstractions which appear nowhere else and filled with yes-men. I know the "Get a job" meme is enticing to kids who haven't had their youth sapped and enthusiasm for life drained yet but you're out of your depth.

>>18424510
You enjoy it because it fulfills the power process. Get tedpilled, bugman

Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Will become a diplomat

>>18424657
I neet in up in my parents house and when they die I will get the house. You salivate for 3 hours of free time a week and I got 24/7 to do anything I want

>>18424664
>muh you can only do one thing
The questions of life follow from meaningful work. If you just sit around pondering the meaning of life without living it like all these history major neets then you're just going to fail.

>>18424675
Kino

>>18424664
Why do you retards care what someone else is doing? If someone wants to be an engineer and enjoys it then so be it. Whether it’s monotonous or not is your opinion. Stop projecting your own self-imposed failures on others.

>>18424678
bro that's so sad. I'm so sorry for you. Maybe one day you'll realize the importance of meaningful work and graduate from being a non-being

just finished high school
starting my maths degree in september

>>18424686
>then you're just going to fail.
Yes because screwing in metal 24/7 for techbro is living it up

>>18424405
Psychology, yes I made a stupid choice. At least it has stats classes so I can take a masters in statistics & data science

>majored in history
>work for gov
>good salary
>good benefits
>good hours
>will never get fired
>barely work
>spend half the day 3d modeling byzantine castles and safavid mosques
>live with mom
>save every penny
>will retire in 5-10 years

>>18424686
>the questions of life follow from meaningful work

>>18424694
Whatever you have to say to cope being a wagecuck. Keep licking the boots of your boss

cognitive science

>>18424702
Where do you work?

>>18424711
By the way, how are you going to pay for food and property tax after you parents finally get to be free of you?

>>18424719
west coast state gov, policy research

>>18424405
Mathematics, but only because it was easiest to get a high GPA not having to write any bullshit feminist critique essays about Othello for some tenured hack. Got to study a decent amount of literature on the side while avoiding the dreadful "methods" classes. Also math is really just the study of pure logic. Gonna try and grind creative writing and become a novelist

>>18424702
based bureaucrat

>>18424711
>be this faggot
>have no marketable or otherwise useful skills
>have no experience in anything important
>can’t make any difference in the world
>can’t make any money
>probably lives off the generosities of others
>is a failure by almost any metric
>copes by calling successful people wageslave/wagecuck and identifying with other failures

Commie-anon, it truly is impossible to underestimate you.

>>18424702
anon-sama I kneel

>>18424405
Astronomy

>>18424405
french lmao

>>18424753
>>have no marketable or otherwise useful skills
slave shit
>>have no experience in anything important
slave projection
>can’t make any difference in the world
HOLY MEME
>can’t make any money
golem
>probably lives off the generosities of others
good
>is a failure by almost any metric
slave
>copes by calling successful people
wageslave/wagecuck and identifying with other failures
lmfao brainwashed cattle

>>18424689
I promise you nobody enjoys being an engineer. It's a meme fed to autistic children easily enamored by flash and nursing hopes of overcoming their modest social standing by being decently good at math, until they're ready to be spat out into the utilities/banal product development industries which of course comprise 99% of everything. This thread itself is proof of that.

>>18424678
Nowadays people are so proud of being parasites and having no independence they flaunt it out on the internet.

>tfw not born rich

>>18424781
it's obvious bait but you are aware that by living like this you are a liability to your parents, right?

>>18424736
I will look into this. Thanks.

>>18424799
what, do your parents hate you or something? talk to them every once in awhile, help them out with the chores, maybe give them a hug? no wonder they wanted you out of there as soon as possible lmao

>>18424783
So you’re telling me this guy doesn’t enjoy being an engineer?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9LND6Cank

>>18424799
How? I don't cost anything. I live in the garage and don't bother anyone. I clean. They still fuck. I'm like a fly

Law but I will become a NEET once I graduate and devote myself wholly to philosophy

>>18424815
This had to be bait. My man is putting wires in vibrators like a chinkslave and thinks he is a kids youtuber making electric nerf guns

>>18424812
gov teet sucking is the final redpill. Country is turning into brazil, you have to adapt. Good luck anon

Accounting
It’s something of I really regret.

>>18424830
Is there a specific name for the job you do?

>>18424829
You said people don’t enjoy being engineers, and yet there are people who enjoy being engineers. Therefore your claim was empirically wrong. Is there a problem?

>>18424798
being born rich robs you of the possibility of spiritual growth. Being rich isn't bad but it's best done by your own efforts

>>18424842
>a youtuber doing videos for literal children is representative of the vast majority of engineers

>>18424842
He gets his money from youtube. He is more of a filmmaker.

>>18424814
they don't hate me and I help them out when I can, the difference is that unlike you I am aware of my surroundings. you'd be truly retarded if you think that because you do the chores once in a while your parents totally stop thinking about you getting a job and truly begin to live like a decent human being.
then again, it's not your fault if you were raised like some kind of parasite that thinks making old people slave away for his little person is normal.

>>18424854
Did I say that? All you said was that no one enjoys being an engineer. You didn’t specify anything or add any conditions to such a blanket statement.

>>18424840
Yes but for mine its pretty specific and considering that there is only 3 west coast state govs(guess which one I'm in) saying it can link it back to me. Just look up state job listings, also municipal or county jobs. Policy Research, research analyst, (insert specific department) research. Have some quant skills also help. If you're still in school minor in something like stats or math and get internships

>>18424823
your momma's worried about you, neetnon

>>18424872
No she is overprotective and happy I am home

>>18424862
I wasn’t aware that getting money from YouTube stops you from being an engineer.

>>18424405
classical philology and German literature

>>18424877
so when are you going to live an actual life?

I studied computer science. Wanted to join a cool startup in the Netherlands while I was there on exchange and start my career that way. Then Covid happened. I’m back in Australia working as a technical writer. I don’t feel educated.

Should I bother getting a degree from here? Are they legit?

>>18424885
I have ADHD so I don't know.

Linguistics

>>18424877
no anon, mr goldberg bought all those apartment complex and now he needs people to rent them so he can get his money back... do you really want to be a pathetic sad loser who lives with his parents and has a healthy relationship with them instead of devoting a substantial amount of your monthly income to mr goldberg's pockets?

>>18424908
>co dependence
>healthy
you're such a fucking retard holy shit

>>18424908
yeah, let's just ask your aging parents to pay mr goldberg's rent while do absolutely nothing of your days instead of making their lives a bit better

>>18424864
That anon baited you hard, at least the 6 figures cope nicely for the lack of meaningful family connections, sucks to suck

>>18424868
Don’t bother trying to reason with these smooth brains, they hardly even believe what they’re saying. The ulterior motive behind saying all engineers are unhappy or brainwashed or whatever is that they can’t accept the fact that people can be happy/content working in companies and contributing to a capitalist society. They hate capitalism and want to make it look bad, and will spout out any sophistic, observably false diatribes to prove it. That’s all there is to it.

>>18424940
Yes, I guess professional chefs making youtube videos is the same thing as working at a restaurant or doing any of the other things generally associated with the profession. An engineer applying his knowledge to make infotainment is exactly the same thing as working on actual engineering projects.

>>18424847
cope

>>18424967
yeah, obviously working on multi-million dollar projects with a fuckton of money to buy and use state of the art equipment is way more fun

>>18424940
Pretty much every engineer I know in university was in it for the money or asian/indian tier "prestige". Like 90% of "premeds"

>college

tfw

>>18424976
and why would a job be "prestigious"?

>>18425026
Have you talked to most people?

>>18424405
Philosophy

I studied music which set me up nicely for my depressing admin job and shit posting on /lit/ for the rest of my life

Law

>>18424405
I was a Biology major with premed. Have had all the stuff ready to apply to med school, but instead I think I'm going to finish my Latin degree instead.

>>18424502
It has been 4 years, I hope he's doing alright.

>>18424527
Museums/Libraries are institutions of appropriation that glorify colonialism and privilege masters tools, there probably won't be any museums/libraries in 20 years. There will be archivists, but to work with objects of any inequitable sensitivity will require extensive background checks and diversity education to weed out the incorrigible. Consulting will be minimized by further digitization and restrictions on producible content. Independent galleries may be operational, but as a former '4channer' you'll be barred for distribution of unsanctioned content and media.

>>18425084
5 years

>>18425113
sounds legit

>>18425119
Fuck, I am still stuck in 2020

>>18424894
It's certainly better than nothing. I'm slowly getting my second bachelor's with them for fun. I've been happy with the courses I've taken, I feel like I get a lot more tutor support than I did at the Russell Group uni I went to for my first one.

I majored in English Literature with a minor in philosophy. I then followed up with a post-bachelor in public relations. Currently have a comfy government job.

>>18425179
>. Currently have a comfy government job.
What do you do

>>18424405
Com Sci

>>18424405
I have a masters in thermofluids.

>>18425181
An array of communications related work. My primary task is to research and write stories related to agricultural developments and then pitch them to the media. I also write comms plans, social media plans, enviro scanning reports, post-mortem, event planning, etc...

>>18424405
German philology
But for some reason I went on to become a paramedic and I just read at work

I dropped out of college three times

>>18425223
All these government jobs sound based as fuck

>>18425153
Thanks anon!

Mining and geothech

Doctorate of Aerospace Engineering, just accepted into the program. I want to focus more on Structures and Material Science, as that is what is limiting the field.

>>18425119
>>18425084
>They missed the redemption of Husserl-anon

Computer engineer

>>18424675
What were the entry requirements for your course?

>>18424405
Just graduated with a degree in mathematics.

>>18425296
based, never seen that before

>>18425296
How have we not located him? How many husserl experts in small christian Georgian universities?

Electrical engineering because I fell for the blinky-lights cyberpunk meme

>>18424405
Working on two degrees atm: mathematics, computer science

>>18424405
Modern Languages

>>18424405
Computer Science and Philosophy.

I did an apprenticeship for HVAC.
While you were reading gay books, I was laying down pipe. When you were working at McDonald's, I was laying down pipe. When you were crying over your student debt, I was laying down pipe.
And now that the ventilation shaft inside your tiny apartment is making strange noises and filling the air with noxious fumes, you have the audacity to ask ME for help?

>>18424405
Law

>>18424894
I did a degree in English Literature through them and went on to do a MA at Warwick. Now work in journalism at a national news outlet as assistant literary editor. It's only ever scored me points in interviews, never heard anything bad said about my undergrad.

Architecture and it's for fags. Thinking about astrophysics instead.

>>18425305
Minimum Spanish and English command, ideally French or some other tongue - good score in a proprietary test, a good show during the interview. International baccalaureate does wonders as the course is relatively selective, although ultimately it comes down to coughing up the shekels.

>>18425296
This reads like someone was "inspired" to write this fiction here. 2/10

NEETism

Political Science, yeah it's a useless degree but it's the only thing I could stomach actually doing the work for, even then just barely. I don't care about climbing the corporate ladder enough to pursue an "in demand" degree or STEM.

>>18425241
I was thinking this. Anytime someone on this board mentions they work for the government they always seem so comfy. I wanted to go into maritime law, but now I'm thinking I should look at what paths a lawyer can have in the government. I'm sure there are plenty.

>>18424405
Economics

DUAL DEGREE IN PURE MATHEMATICS AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

>>18424606
sounds insanely based...always want a highbrow yet /out/ career

Any advice?

>>18425575
What are the chances an English only speaker getting into an equivalent course elsewhere

Nursing. Any others here?

>>18426165
Can't speak for every uni in existence, but I'm certain neither the Britons nor Americans will fuss your monolingualism too harshly. Hell, the course was originally conceived in Oxford.

Perhaps you could find something in Sciences Po for a semester / Erasmus.

PPE is usually relatively demanding, definitely harder than practically all other political studies, but also a heftier degree. That's the most I could tell you, friend.

doing mba and been practicing and freelancing coding and digital marketing for 4 years
will easily get a job while I work on my startup and screenwriting on the side
life is good if organized uWu

Micro- and nanotechnology

>>18426204
My older step brother is a Rhodes scholar and did PPE at Oxford. I am equally capable but struggled with depression and familial abuse. I have nothing on paper to prove my worth but I know I am capable. PPE truly is the course for me but I doubt I could get in. Not that you care. I just wanted to put this out there.

>>18426204
>>18426249
Anyway, thanks for sharing. Hope you become a diplomat one day anon.

>>18424405
Finance. Entering my final year with a 3.8 GPA but I think I want to become a state park ranger.

>>18426249
>struggled with depression and familial abuse
No one cares faggot. Stop using your past to define who you are and achieve your goals or admit you're a bitch.

>>18426287
I’m fine now. I just couldn’t achieve highly while being abused. It took a lot of time and energy to put an end to all that. That’s not defining who I am by my past. It’s a fact that I don’t have a good academic record for reasons out of my control. Right now if I were to start a new undergrad I’m sure I would top it. Now fuck off and stop projecting

>>18424405
I never went to school

Life sciences
Hopefully I can get into vetenary school once I finish my degree

Biology

Geology

>>18424405
Philosophy and Mathematics

Mathematics

>>18425056
It's shit isn't it? The material and content is amazing but working with faculty and their bureaucratic cult is soul-crushing. Wish Philosophy was taught by Philosophers in college. It's dead.

>>18424405
Chemistry, minor in physics. I'm still a chemist, own my own business. Didn't start reading the classics until prison.

Philosophy with a minor in political science. Most likely to become a wagie but I honestly don't care much about that. I know I wouldn't be happy if I had a high-paying burnout job that I don't care for.
I wanna become a writer or filmmaker at some point.

>>18426419
What type of films do you want to make?

>>18424405

Philosophy

>>18426439
Same. Hope you're a male because I'm sick of female philosophy majors and their midwit insights.

>>18424502

Must live in America. I did philosophy minor + major without any debt and I have a job above minimum wage, lol.

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>>18424702
Fellow /his/ autists. Anyone else going to be a USELESS high school teacher? Just graduated with this invaluable degree into a booming Canadian economy. Feeling good :)
at least I don't have any debt...

>>18426478
I thought about it but I hate children

>>18426451

Yeah, I'm male. There's not many women teachers. Actually had 2 of them that were great at explaining and had nice insights, but the student girls were pretty much pseuds.

>>18426495
I'm not a great fan of them either, but I've got to do something to keep the lights on. Looks braindead easy and pays very well.

>>18426522
Maybe it's different in Canada but what I've heard in the US is that it's terrible and not easy.

>>18426554
It's much better here. Pay is pretty good, pension, full benefits. It's a good deal.

>>18426256
>>18426249
You're welcome, anon, and thanks for the good wishes. Although I don't know your situation, maybe try to clutch on your brother's experience with the course.
If you feel up to it a great path is learning a language and applying to a uni, they're much more lenient once they see you're not a native speaker. If you've the cash you could be in PPE in Bocconi or Navarre in a year, or Germany for free if you want to learn their demon language.

Whatever you do, good luck lad.

>>18426478
Hey, a fellow USELESS History major! Got a job interview on Tuesday!

Honestly, I'm looking forward to it. I get paid 57k and get summers off to do all kinds of bullshit. May teach overseas in a few years, idk.

Best of luck, anon. Do Canadians expect their history teachers to coach? They sure as shit do in Texas.

>>18424509
What's it like? Did they show you a picture and ask you "Is this a horse or a tractor?"

>>18426652
>Got a job interview on Tuesday!
That's a good man. At least some of us are gonna make it.
>I get paid 57k and get summers off
Did you also do a state teaching license program bundled into your degree? We have to do a completely separate program here. I'm gonna have to spend at least another year in uni getting a 1-year-post-degree-education-degree-degree.
>May teach overseas in a few years, idk.
Same! I actually had a job lined up in China, but coronachan shut that down. Looking at online ESL until I can either go teach abroad for a few years or begin the aforementioned post-degree-degree.
>Do Canadians expect their history teachers to coach?
Yea I'll probably get dragged into coaching tennis or something. Not the end of the world, I suppose. IDK if you could do it, but I had a few teachers in HS set up interesting clubs to get out of shittier extracurricular obligations. Had a hearthstone club, among others. Might be worth looking into if you want to avoid football field sharters. You could maybe even spin a book club.

even knowing the education system is corrupt shithole debt machine part of me wishes I never dropped out years ago and studied the classics

>>18426434
I'm kind of on the fence in that regard but I have some ideas. I haven't had any filmmaking experiences, so for starters I think I'll pick up a camera when I have the money and film stuff that I find interesting in my city and make it interesting/experimental in a way - I've thought about making some kind of short film in the pov of a schizo neet. I know it's kinda cliche and stupid but it's something that doesn't take a lot of budget and I can do by myself. I know there's plenty of interesting stuff to film where I live.
For actual movies, I've got some ideas in my head but I haven't written them down. It's kind of intermingled with my idea for a novel though. I guess in terms of style it would be in the lines of stanley kubrick, robert eggers and gaspar noe - these aren't my particular favorites but if I had to make a movie I'd do it in that type of fashion.

>>18426719
Alternative certification and it's bizarre. You spend multiple months in "training" doing online modules and observing classes before you are a probationary teacher. After that you need one year of experience as a full time teacher at an accredited district in order to receive your license. It's a whole lotta bureaucratic hoops to jump through but nothing inherently difficult.

You bring up a great idea with whoring myself as a club supervisor; I'd much rather lead chess, gardening, and film club over coaching. However, for 57k a year I'd happily act like I know anything about tennis or track.

Considering I'm practically required to learn Spanish as whites make up about 12% of your average Texan school district, I've thought about teaching overseas in Latin America versus China or Japan for the unique opportunities that may come from it.

Sometimes I still think I should have suffered through a Math or Biology degree just for the ease of placement as a teacher. Districts are giving sign on bonuses because they're in such high demand. BUT I wouldn't be able to talk about Hitler and that's too much fun to miss out on.

I got a master's in accounting and went on to work in mid-market investment banking (M&A). Pay is good, work is exciting sometimes, but the hours are murder. I'll probably hop to a job with less hours in a couple of years because I feel like I'm not spending my limited life wisely.

To anyone looking to enter investment banking or management consulting, try it out by doing an internship before committing to it for the longer term. And don't drink the fucking Kool-aid.

History and I regret everything.

>>18427201
What were all of you history majors' field of study during your degrees?
>European and US History within the last century with a focus on Eastern Europe during WW2.

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>>18424475
So you guys play Pharaoh (1999)?

>>18424405
Electrical Engineering

Biomed engineering
I'm not passionate about it, but it's comfy at least

>>18424490
I did MIS and it SUCKED. Wish I did Network Engineer/CS

>>18424502
I liked reading Husserl. Poor guy, would love to hear more from him.

>>18427340
I only play counter-strike

>>18424486
Best track there is senpai. You were smart by leagues to even know about that field in the first place, Anon

>>18427349
>comfy
How so? Genuinely wondering, also biomedical engineering. Despite being in a pandemic it seems less valuable than other engineering majors.

Government and History

>>18425384
If only there was a big strong HVAC man to hold my big blonde breasts
I'm a dude btw

>>18424976
I work as an engineer, double-majored in finance and electric engineering. My parents are equity partners in a financial services firm where I easily could have joined and earned a starting salary of ~$200k. I chose instead to focus on electromagnetic weapons so that I may eventually destroy my enemies. The ability to protect and provide for oneself with technology is much more valuable than money. You will soon all know this, but it will be too late for /lit/tards.

>>18427364
Me too what rank

>>18424405
I'm about to enroll in Classics (going back to uni so I'm not underage for the record), it's going to be me and like less than then other students this year. Classics are unsurprisingly not that popular in my central euro country and most people who go into it go into it are women or guys who chose it because they saw 300 or that Spartacus show.

I chose it because it is genuinely the field that interests me the most (more specifically I'm into hellenism [indo-greek civilization especially], Byzantium, and late antiquity) and I sincerely hope that I will be able to learn a lot and use the linguistic/translation related knowledge I acquire during it to become a better translator afterwards, a master's program that I plan on doing right after as an English/German translator.

Wish me luck, and may the old artificer stand me now and ever in good stead.

>>18427429
Based Super Villain

>>18427453
>it's going to be me and like less than then other students
*less than ten other students

I got a sciences degree in economics. If I could do it over, I would not study at my school or in my major.

>>18427193
Did it for a year and just quit on a whim. Never went back. Hated that job.

>>18427446
Please don't remind me. I'm old and my hands shake

>>18427410
>How so?
I like the people in the department and the classes (at least before everything went online) instill a good sense of comradery. It feels like a less rigorous civil/mechanical degree at times though

>>18427493
Sorry

Biology

>>18427475
Glad you got out of this racket. What do you do nowadays?

>>18425237
Same. Will finish this bachelor though, already at the end. Whish I had done things differently.

>>18425026
>>18425035
why would it not be ?

>>18424405
Dropped out and join the military. Out now though just parties in germany for 3 years.

>>18425072
is that actually what you do? what do you play? do you compose more or what?

t. 3rd year music fag

>>18424625
>reading on the side
lmao you'll be working like 80 hours a week for the first few years. By the time you're settled enough to read substantially on the side you'll be in your 30s

philosophy, almost done, in honours, but im a husk and want to kms

>>18424405
>implying I went to college

>>18428035
what is a philosophy degree actually like when it's at home? I wanted to do PPE at oxbridge but was dissuaded and did English lit instead at a far worse uni (which was bloody shite for reasons). are they comparable?

>>18428053
i have an english minor, im attending a uni in my city. philosophy and english are quite different but it depends on what your philosophy department is like. at my uni, its mostly analytic, so its very very different from english, though in some english courses like literary criticism philosophy plays a heavy role. its just that the bar for english majors is a lot lower at least where i go to school. i am mostly focusing in kant and i intended/intend to try for grad school but at this point i dont know. id love to study more continental philosophy but my department just isnt set up for it. im glad i did/am doing philosophy but its hard to pursue it as a life direction, especially given that im fairly mentally unwell

>>18424405
Dropped out of high school at 15, fucked around for a few years, doing drugs, dealing and drinking mostly.
Got fed up and traveled to a nearby country, got a job as a dishwasher and then worked my way up into a chef's position.
By now I have been working as a chef for the last 10 years and I like it. Currently working as the head chef at a vegetarian restaurant, which is great since I'm Dharma-pilled.

>>18428053
>>18428081
also want to add, i dont know how philosophy would be at oxbridge but im assuming it would be pretty different from how it is here. though it would still lean analytic, as most departments do in the anglosphere. english is influenced much more by continental philosophy and literary theory, which often go hand in hand and are deeply interrelated.

>>18424543
Lit majors are unironically retards. Most of them that I have met read YA books almost exclusively

>>18428081
>>18428095
good stuff man. I could always do another degree one day like a useless member of society kek.

>im glad i did/am doing philosophy but its hard to pursue it as a life direction, especially given that im fairly mentally unwell
sorry to hear that anon, but sounds like you're perfectly set-up to live the philosopher way. I think some degree of instability is required. best of luck

>>18428124
thanks anon. time will tell. i deeply care about philosophy and literature but encroaching apathy is hard to deal with. plus, its hard to see the academic mill as the place for somebody who is passionate about philosophy and literature at a level thats more than just choosing a pigeonhole and writing papers in it. plus, academia is just revolting in so many ways... but what else am i to do, if i care about this stuff? hm.
sorry for blogposting. had a rough interaction with my supervisor today.

>>18424405
Portuguese, French and Ancient Greek.

Biology/psychology double major
Masters in public policy, focus in security studies
MPA focused in management

>>18424405
I mostly teach labour history but side chain some tactical and operational class warfare.

>>18428181
What do you work in? I’m thinking of pursuing an MPP myself

>>18424405
Art History here, but desu I don't think I will be making good money after graduating due to me living in a third world country. I'm just hoping for weed to be legal here in the meantime and start a coffeshop or some dispensary.

>>18424543
I am one...
It's depressing, uni is a scam. Stem or no stem uni is just shit.

>>18428705
It's really only bad for Americans who have to pay $100,000 for an undergrad degree from a no-name uni. I went to a pretty good school in Canada and paid less than $45,000 (Canadian dollars) for the four years it took me to get my degree.

>>18424405
Classics with a specialization into historical linguistics. I know my attic and koine Greek pretty well at this point, I'm working through Latin now, and next I'll start on Sumerian hopefully.

Computer Science, and an unfinished minor in history

>>18424871
oregon?

I'm 18 and I haven't yet chosen a career.
My passion is in humanities, and if I were to choose a career in that area, it'd be political sciences or philosophy.
However, because I don't want to die from starvation, I'm considering informatic or industrial engineering.
What would be some /lit/ advice? Should I follow my passion or be prudent and choose something safe?

>>18429236
>My passion is in humanities, and if I were to choose a career in that area, it'd be political sciences or philosophy
good fucking luck
>What would be some /lit/ advice? Should I follow my passion or be prudent and choose something safe?
Find a tolerable career path that will allow you to live comfortably and focus on your passions after hours. Don't ruin your life by swamping yourself with debt and an ostensibly useless degree. Honestly I'd spend at least a year being a wagie to think long and hard about what kind of life situation you want. Want a cabin in Montana or an apartment in New York? Want to stay in your home country or move abroad? Want to work 20 hours per week or 60 hours per week? Find out how much money you're going to want (within reason) and act on that.

>>18424405
Starting philosophy at a decent school in Boston this fall. I can't wait to learn about blacks and women for 4 years.

>>18425346
I dont think he published his work anon

>>18428714
I'm an Australian, so it's not that bad. But the people in my course are all fake people it sucks.

>>18429261
Thanks for the advice anon. Godspeed.

>>18424405
I was originally a History major, left then cucked myself into doing accounting then literally first day of our virtual class I dropped it. The format of classes and the entire system of schools makes me hate learning even though I love reading and learning I just do it better on my own. Currently working at friends family restaurant literally rent free, after the shop closes down im going try a trade and maybe open my own shop with earnings. If im lucky one of hobbies (writing, music, chemistry) will take off and I wont even need a trade. Who knows but college doesnt work for me personally, I need freedom
>>18429236
Dont go to college, go experience life and actually understand yourself, you’re a fucking child. Understanding yourself can mean different things, camping, traveling, instense study, working a wagie job, etc. Just dont commit the next 4+ years of your fucking life picking something you think you like because its the closest guess you have. You have way more fucking time than you think and you dont need nearly as much as you think you do that warrants college so you should take at least a year gap and make sure you’re away from people and not stressed out. Then you may have a better understanding

>>18424405
Economics.
It sucked and was a waste of time as I had to find and study Austrians on my own.

>>18429363
>But the people in my course are all fake people
It's not just your course, Anon. You'll soon come to learn that the lions share of humanity is complete and utter chaff.
>>18429386
nw cunt, good luck.

>>18424405
Mathematics

Archaeology and GIS. Working as a contractor for the BLM and get cozy government benefits and plenty of opportunities to explore the wide open public lands of the Western US. Goal rightnow is to go back to gradschool in a year or two and settle down with my girlfriend in a comfy tenured professorship utilizing GIS in archaeology. Wish me luck.

>>18424405
>Computer sciene/software engineering.
It's ok. I wanted to be an artist but I don't want to be a poorfag for my entire life.

>>18424405
marine biology

>>18429557
>I don't want to be a poorfag for my entire life
Embrace the poorfag lifestyle, save up for a rich retirement, and laugh at your generational compatriots who blow all their cash away in their 20s and 30s before thinking about life savings and the consequences of huge loads of unpayable debt.

Antarctic ecology

>>18424405
BS in IT, but I haven't had a job related to it in 4 years.

>>18425384
kek. I kneel. all hail the pipe king

>>18429557
What the other anon said. Stop worrying about money, full stop. Live off purely what you need because its only what you need. Doing that will in turn make you rich and even if it doesn’t you know to be resourceful so you dont care either way and you have a job that makes you want to blow your brains out for being painfully boring. Having no money isnt bad its the mindset of a poor person that is. They want everything they dont have so in turn that have nothing, people who are okay with nothing have everything

>>18429603
you dont have a job*

>>18424529
>honors thesis
UNDERGRADUATE BAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA

>>18429623
I seriously hope you don't act this autistic in the real world, because people like you are why I'm embarrassed to tell others that I'm a liberal arts major.

I'm a neet. I was thinking of maybe doing data entry and earning money for a while then going back to college for economics maybe.

>>18429603
>>18429567
>Keep working minimum wage shit kicking jobs until I die, that will slowly destroy my body and mind while also being a poorfag and suffer stress whenever some unexpected money drain occurs.
vs
>Work as a software dev and make way more money, actually be able to save instead of living paycheck to paycheck. Get to work in an airconditioned office from a comfy ergonomic chair. Live like a poorfag anyway and retire relatively early.
You guys are peak delusional and probably haven't worked min wage shit tier jobs just to get by in your lives.

>>18429710
>probably haven't worked min wage shit tier jobs just to get by in your lives
Worked min wage at a pet store for two years before making double that for the government and still living on food stamps. Also your second statement is exactly what I'm telling you to do, just don't stress about how much money you make so long as your saving part of your paycheck each month. The goal is to get rich in retirement, not your 30s and 40s.

I dropped out 3 times

>>18424405
Triple major in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and International Studies with a concentration in global diplomacy. Also a minor in Arabic Studies.
>>18424653
Are you the loser from /mu/ who doxxed himself after bragging about having sex with some asian chick?
>>18424675
>>18424483
>>18424771
>>18424828
>>18424883
>>18425056
>>18427453
>>18428178
>>18428789
>>18429568
Only based ones here

Mathematics. I was going to double major with philosophy, and I'm only one class shy of doing so, but the past semester my philosophy seminar took too much attention away from my math courses, which are more important cause I'm going to graduate school for math, so I've decided not to finish it.

>>18424405
Majored in Chem. Graduated in 2020 and landed a pretty nice job with a company out in WNC making about 60K. I went to a small public school so I don’t owe a lot.

Chem sucks but I wasn’t interested in anything else. Imagine “majoring” in literature, like, just read you retards

Biology, currently working on a physician assistant masters.

compsci with minor in phil.
>>18429568
incredibly based if real

>>18429807
It's real, ended up doing it out of obsession with Terra Australis Incognita

>>18429775
>all the wannabe diplomats and foreign policy goons don't study history
makes a lot of sense actually

Physics. Now the Navy is training me to do something only tangentially related. I have lots of time to read, though. I spend half my time at work writing and everybody just assumes I'm doing something important.

Chemistry. If you're doing liberal arts as a career you're doing life wrong

Computer science
Now, it is welding and machinestry

>>18430066
>you're doing life wrong
>t. Chemistry major
AHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

>>18430066
Reminder that 99% of books in the liberal arts that you read for your pathetic side hobby after your wagie job was written by people who pursed liberal arts as a career. Not everybody wants to be a dilettante passive consumer cuck

>>18424405
Geology

>>18424405
Political science and I am thinking of starting a double degree in Economics.

>>18430147
Economics is only worth it if you go to grad school for it. It’s kinda like psychology in that sense

>>18430143

Good Christ, this vacant cope. The total lack of self-awareness.

Bachelor in electrical engineering

>>18430155

Really? I'm gonna thinking about it, honestly I just want to study economics because I feel I needed it to be a diplomatic.

>>18429317
I'm pretty sure someone in a previous thread did manage to track down who he most likely was. I imagine if you trawl the archives enough you'll find it.

>>18424901
I feel you adhdbro

>>18424405
comp sci

>>18430158
>Good Christ, this vacant cope.
Irony
>The total lack of self-awareness.
Nope, I majored in math and currently crunch numbers for some bullshit gov agency. I'm just not a stupid fucking faggot reading plato after his wage shit job and believing himself to be anything but an idiot

>>18425237

Same here can't belive i have dropped so many times, i've like never even tried ever.

>>18425480
Why is it for fags?

>>18430197
You know how you can just "tell" somebody is an architect sometimes (especially students). Like they dress in this faux artsy sophisticated way and carry themselves with an air of superiority because the subject is surrounded by so much mystique and historical prestige? Everything is super deep, they'll walk into a place and start scanning the walls chuckling to themselves, hoping somebody asks them what they are thinking about. They'll have an opinion on everything.
Thats why its for fags. Also, its full of women sometimes
t. another architecture fag

>>18430205
That's funny, I'm in grad school for architecture. I wear basketball shorts most days. There are lot of fags in my classes but the people who have worked for firms know that they're not gonna be Corbusier. I do love a good wall scan though

>>18424486
mechanical engineering. i look forward to only 40hr work weeks without having to deal with idiots as much as most other jobs

>>18424405
Law. That’s why i am smart and good at debating.

>>18425642
My parents work for the state. It's easy and has benefits, but your coworkers, supervisors, and pretty much everyone you interact with will be complete retards. If you can handle that without shooting up the building I say go for it

>>18424405
I'm studying for a law major, don't even know if that's a thing in the US, probably not lol. But that's how it works in continental legal systems.

>>18430205
interesting take
I've got an architecture friend who looks and acts pretty normal. She might be the minority though.
Must be because of the lecturer's influence, since most of them are post-modernist fags themselves who delight at the thought of becoming the next Gehry, and insist on teaching their students to be pretentious fags who will inflict their structural abominations on the eyes of civilisations while acting as if they have achieved the highest form of artistry.
Hippies beget more hippies

>>18424405
currently an undergrad in process and food engineering
least there wont be a shortage of food manufacturers when I graduate

>>18427349
>>18427410
Also biomedical engineering. Recently switched from medicine to engineering. Which countries?

Business Management. Idk if it will pay well, but I like the idea of managing.

Biomedical sciences with major in molecular genetics

>>18430434
Law debates are mostly incredibly fucking dull and any of the good ones are overplayed, it's up there with economic debates. Becoming good at debating has made me think a lot less of lawyers because of how much biases and sophistry is involved

>>18424405
medicine

>>18424405
Double degree, Law and Political Studies. Studying either of those in Australia is basically just an overpriced networking course for all they're worth. Thinking about going back in a few years and taking the STEM pill

>>18429710
If you want to go to all that then yeah sure do it forget whatever I said and go to college immediately without second thought. I have worked min wage shit tier jobs, but if you really need to make money that fast for some reason and out golden handcuffs on yourself then fuck it. Hell, you’re so smart and cool you should go to two colleges at the same time

>>18424405
Accounting. I don't actually respect it much and I certainly don't enjoy the classes, but I'll confess that I do like having some niche expertise on a subject, even one as trivial as accounting. I've been looking at masters programs in other subjects that I might be able to do and none of them seem good. They either demand too many prereqs or it's totally inane. I'd love to be firmly branched out into another profession such engineering, comp sci, or even medicine, but it's not looking good unless I want some IT degree. Alternatively, I'd like to do something like Classics. At this rate, I'm all but certain to do either a Masters in Accounting, a Masters in Political Science (easy), or just taking random undergrad classes to hit 150 credits.

>>18427193
That's not exactly an easy job to get. Even the internships are brutal. Did you go to Harvard or something?

>>18424405
Anthropology

>>18431339
If you stay in accounting long enough you can end up involved in some cool stuff. It's hell at first, but after a couple decades my parents are now friends with the local politicians, all the rich people, and in a lot of business deals.
Get good and keep up with changes to tax laws and people will seek you out.

>>18430147
>>18430175
Economics is better than political science because it's business related and this gives it more respect. Business and economic degrees can be good for diplomats who focus on economic relations. But for a more general diplomat, I think an international relations or foreign affairs degree is ideal. Studying a language, such as Arabic, would also be good. This is coming from a burger though.

>>18431549
>after a couple decades

>>18424405
engineering
big mistake, hope i had chosen bizness

>>18426653
top kek

>>18424675
it's good to have high expects when you are 18
pero tenés que estudiar ehh

>>18424675
it's good to have high expects when you are 18. Te vas a dar cuena que la universisda no es tan buena (al menos la mia)

>>18431740
Cuál es: ¿no es tan buena o debería estudiar más? Y si es la primera: ¿por qué opinas eso?

>>18430719

>>18427349 here, America