/lit/ - Literature

>>12376394
>I am going to join a monastery soon (Orthodox)
i-i thought you guys were all LARPing...

>>12380864
>kids about to go to university

Fuck them. University "educated" people are scum.

>>11261365
>be me
>attend below average commuter school after community college, study CS
>read and write during every free waking moment, which is pretty often because the school's not too rigorous and it's just undergrad
>after school find a comfy job desk job relatively quickly
>over time publish a couple short stories at small internet zines and journals, many of which I worked on at my job
>finally, miraculously get one in at a fairly prestigious literary magazine
>one day check up on my friend from high school who seemed to have it all together
>he studied English at Georgetown, had read all the cool difficult big dick doorstoppers and always had something smart to say about them
>he's working two humiliating part time jobs just to stay alive
>hasn't published anything beyond one poem in some undergrad journal during his student days
>hoping to get his teaching certification so he can have the privilege of spending 8 hours a day with teenagers
>no way he has health insurance
>still hasn't paid off his insane student loans
>probably never will
>meanwhile I get paid to shitpost on /lit/ and listen to Elmore Leonard audiobooks
Fuck you, Matt

>Why do we need extensive study of literature to be mandatory teaching in schools, when the only useful thing it teaches is basic use of the English language?
>Why do we need artists and people to study arts? What do you contribute to society?
>What is the point of getting an English degree when the job prospects are so few?

How do you respond, /lit/?
>bonus points for not mentioning spooks

Hilarious comic. Definitely browses /pol/.

What does one do when they are an unacknowledged genius and they are at the mercy of avarice dumbards?

so just how useless is majoring in English?

>Job hunting
>As an English Major

How goes it fellow e/lit/es?