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  • One fun fact a sociology professor average salary is 73 k.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    One fun fact a sociology professor average salary is 73 k.

    WSS

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

  • I did not expect for him to have a Wiki page haha.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerold_Starr

  • @westside-steve said:

    FYI less than 40% of Fortune 500 CEOs have an MBA. For what that's worth.

    WSS

    *just finished an MBA* Fuuuuccc....

    @logicisforsquares said:

    *just finished an MBA* Fuuuuccc....

    Where'd you get yours? I'm hoping to start in 2019

  • @westside-steve said:

    One fun fact a sociology professor average salary is 73 k.

    WSS

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    Don't let them think that's ALL COLLEGE EVERYWHERE EVIL LIBERALS now

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    Lol steve what???

    Any data to back yo these anti education claims?

  • @logicisforsquares said:

    *just finished an MBA* Fuuuuccc....

    Where'd you get yours? I'm hoping to start in 2019

    @mld-woody said:

    Where'd you get yours? I'm hoping to start in 2019

    Marshall University. Not the best or the worst but it was close to where I live. Be prepared for a lot of group projects and hollow nonsense management classes. Most of the management classes are geared towards statistics but you will get some real turds that are just fluff.

    My undergrad was in GIS and I work with a lot of engineers. The current trend is for folks who have the technical know how to go and get an MBA to gain social skills haha.

  • @logicisforsquares said:

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    Don't let them think that's ALL COLLEGE EVERYWHERE EVIL LIBERALS now

    @mld-woody said:

    Don't let them think that's ALL COLLEGE EVERYWHERE EVIL LIBERALS now

    Yeah that is about the only professor I had who was remotely like this. Sociology profs have a type.

  • @westside-steve said:

    One fun fact a sociology professor average salary is 73 k.

    WSS

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    @logicisforsquares said:

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    Sounds like a terrible teacher. 

  • @logicisforsquares said:

    I had a sociology professor at WVU  (Dr. Starr, has since retired) who we didn't study for his tests because if you just remembered the basic idea that white, old, rich, American, and Christian were evil, you could get an A. All of the questions were worded in a manner that if you kept a mindset like that you would pass. The same professor would get too hot in our class and staged a protest out front with students to force them to turn the AC down. I used the time to go get day drunk and be around people I didn't loath.

    Sounds like a terrible teacher. 

    @cccjwh said:

    Sounds like a terrible teacher. 

    Yeah he was stealing our money and time.

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    Lol steve what???

    Any data to back yo these anti education claims?

    @mld-woody said:

    Also

    Lol steve what???

    Any data to back yo these anti education claims?

    Calm yourself Woodrow. Deny already State I don't have the numbers? Just a guess. If you think otherwise I'm happy to hear your arguments as well.

    But you should be able to at least grassed my point. Doctor of Sociology making 73k would naturally be jealous of the garbage man with a high school diploma making a buck and a quarter.

    WSS

  • Furthermore I think one of the largest classes of people with Advanced degrees are School teachers most of which I think are lucky to have their cake jobs. Jobs that just about anybody who can read and write could do if they have a little bit of aptitude.

    Have before you explode yes I think your degree is harder to get and more necessary to success in your field.

    WSS

  • Furthermore I think one of the largest classes of people with Advanced degrees are School teachers most of which I think are lucky to have their cake jobs. Jobs that just about anybody who can read and write could do if they have a little bit of aptitude.

    Have before you explode yes I think your degree is harder to get and more necessary to success in your field.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Furthermore I think one of the largest classes of people with Advanced degrees are School teachers most of which I think are lucky to have their cake jobs. Jobs that just about anybody who can read and write could do if they have a little bit of aptitude.

    Have before you explode yes I think your degree is harder to get and more necessary to success in your field.

    WSS

    That is a lot feeling you are posting. Do you have any actual evidence that this is the case? Your complete lack of respect for teachers is noted.

    https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=37

    Of the 1,895,000 bachelor's degrees conferred in 2014–15, the greatest numbers of degrees were conferred in the fields of business (364,000), health professions and related programs (216,000), social sciences and history (167,000), psychology (118,000), biological and biomedical sciences (110,000), engineering (98,000), visual and performing arts (96,000), and education (92,000). At the master's degree level, the greatest numbers of degrees were conferred in the fields of business (185,000), education (147,000), and health professions and related programs (103,000). At the doctor's degree level, the greatest numbers of degrees were conferred in the fields of health professions and related programs (71,000), legal professions and studies (40,300), education (11,800), engineering (10,200), biological and biomedical sciences (8,100), psychology (6,600), and physical sciences and science technologies (5,800).

  • I wouldn't say a complete lack of respect but certainly a minor level across the board. Are there exceptions to every rule? Sure. 

    Of course any job that could be reasonably easily replaced is probably not meant to be on a very high pedestal.

    WSS

  • I wouldn't say a complete lack of respect but certainly a minor level across the board. Are there exceptions to every rule? Sure. 

    Of course any job that could be reasonably easily replaced is probably not meant to be on a very high pedestal.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    I wouldn't say a complete lack of respect but certainly a minor level across the board. Are there exceptions to every rule? Sure. 

    Of course any job that could be reasonably easily replaced is probably not meant to be on a very high pedestal.

    WSS

    But I agree with you. If a 15 year ago kid in China can do your job, you deserve to lose it. If a uneducated immigrant standing outside of home depot can fix the same thing you charge 60$ an hour to fix. Your job is "high pedestal".

  • Steve the "anti education" bias from you is too strong. Bordering on some kind of resentment.

    The teacher bashing is just the cherry on top. Jesus

    You say "well I guess there are exceptions to every rule" while simultaneously acting like an exception is a rule. 

    You're just spouting off claims with 0 data to back it up and then acting like we need to prove you wrong. I mean I get that's 90% of this board but come on. Have some level of common sense.

  • @westside-steve said:

    Probably true considering that they over-educated are often less successful. 

    Ur so right. All these fortune 500 ceo's are all high school dropouts to be sure.....

    @clevfan4life said:

    Ur so right. All these fortune 500 ceo's are all high school dropouts to be sure.....

    Many of the richest Americans are or were indeed dropouts. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Evan Williams, Michael Dell just to name a few

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  • @clevfan4life said:

    Ur so right. All these fortune 500 ceo's are all high school dropouts to be sure.....

    Many of the richest Americans are or were indeed dropouts. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Evan Williams, Michael Dell just to name a few

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Many of the richest Americans are or were indeed dropouts. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Evan Williams, Michael Dell just to name a few

    Compared to, you know, the rest of them

  • @clevfan4life said:

    Ur so right. All these fortune 500 ceo's are all high school dropouts to be sure.....

    Many of the richest Americans are or were indeed dropouts. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Evan Williams, Michael Dell just to name a few

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Many of the richest Americans are or were indeed dropouts. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Evan Williams, Michael Dell just to name a few

    Forbes breaks it down, ~15% of 400 richest people in the US only have a high school diploma. For you college dropouts that means ~85% do.

    https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mfg45gdkf/billionaire-phds-21/#78f5aca038a8

    No college degree: 63

    Law degree: 35

    Science degree: 29

    PhD: 21

    Medical: 5

    And again...

    https://theconversation.com/the-myth-of-the-college-dropout-75760

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