/lit/ - Literature

You'll get that question unless your major is engineering, business, pre-med or pre-law. Otherwise, it seems asshats don't see the use in anything else.

>>1802676
And if you're a math/cs major, the only response you'll EVER get is "Oh, I just hate math!"

>>1802682
Blank stares are what you get if you mention anything that sounds mildly scientific and eclectic like "biogerontology" or "hematology".

>>1802676
posting
>>1802682
As a math major, about the only response I ever get is, "Are you going to be a teacher?"

People have no imagination when it comes to career choices, regardless of the fact that there are probably a billion and one different professions out there.

Also, you have to take into account the quality of the person asking these questions. Do they have a degree? What is it in? etc

>>1802669

But I'm studying Economics

cuz i went that rout and its boring as hell so i started failing.

I'm studying geology, chemistry and biology. I was studying history and geography, then I went in an English, history and art direction. I think I am going to stick with the sciences though.

>PhD in Mathematics
>any job I want
>$300k starting salary

>>1802717
>something important
>mathematics
>implying

>>1802726

someone never visits /sci/

>>1802726

>>1802736
this is /lit/, we hate /sci/.

math is superior.

>>1802717
>>1802726
>I'm a 30 something with zero real life skills or job experience, of course you'll hire me!

>>1802745

Phd in math basically opens every door on earth.

>>1802717
Any job you'll do will be soul-destroying and boring as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

-source, math phd here

>>1802726
>Math
>Necessary for all science, engineering, economics, all business, medicine..
>unimportant

/lit/, the dumbest board.

>>1802752
>mathematics
>math major
>doesn't see the difference

>dumbest poster on 4chan

Creativity and love.

>>1802749
Nah, that's called a law degree.

Because they're not fun.
I have no interest in mathematics besides my limited knowledge in astrophysics and possible space travel. Which I harness to write shitty sci-fi because it's fun. I'd rather enjoy my life and job than make a ton of money being miserable.
Plus math is just fucking boring.

>>1802752

>implying those things are 'important'
>not starting from an assessment of what constitutes the concept of 'importance' itself

>>1802778
>implying we share a definition of the term assessment
>not starting from an exposition on the meaning of english words

>>1802669

Does IT and networking count as engineering? We're in the engineering department?

>>1802816
No, you're the tech monkeys. You're important, but you will always be considered second class.

Chin up, we need you! Even if we don't want to acknowledge that to your face.

>>1802816
Think of yourself as a 21st century typewriter serviceman. Or an elevator repairman.

People never say that to me. It's not often I meet somebody that understands what I study, even though it's really easy to understand, so they rarely comment it.

>>1802823

Aww... that sucks. Elevator repairmen don't build their own elevators though...

>>1802838
the awesome ones do

>/lit/
>Not Studying Philosophy or Antropology.

>>1802842

I guess that makes me feel a bit better.

"importance" is an outdated concept, welcome to postmodernity losers

>>1802867
I'd say "importance" is still very relevant.

>>1802885

to whom

>>1802888
A starving person choosing between buying food and buying a book.

> social psychology post-secondary
> 100k with tenure

>>1802905
Presumably you mean a starving person wants food. Why the starving person would have to sit down and consider the importance of anything I have no idea.

I study Geology bitch, that IS important.
Ya know that gold ring you're husbands going to present you with? I'll be the guy who fucking finds that gold.

>>1802911

if by "finds gold" you mean "looks at a piece of schist under a hand lens"

>>1802911
>Ya know that gold ring you're husbands going to present you with? I'll be the guy who fucking finds that gold.
Wow. I don't even know where to start here. Well done.

>>1802911
lol.

>implying anyone cares who sources their precious minerals and metals for them

>>1802682
>CS major
>Oh I hate Math!
The funny thing is that I hardly use math at all.

>>1802911
So your like a... physical laborer.

>>1802936
Replace laborer with "guy who finds out where the stuff is, and tells others to get it out for him" then yes, I am a laborer.

>>1802920
Perhaps not, but my job is going to involve going all around the world looking for this stuff. Which is a damn side better then the pencil-pushing fucks I have to put up with now.

>>1802947
You must enjoy wearing North Face and Mountain Equipment Co-op clothes.

I'm a pencil pusher. I wear Brooks Brothers, fuck nubile young co-eds, and eat lobster 4 times a week.

>>1802947
>Perhaps not, but my job is going to involve going all around the world looking for this stuff. Which is a damn side better then the pencil-pushing fucks I have to put up with now.
>He thinks he won't be a cubicle monkey
AAHHHAHAHA

>>1802956
u jelly?

>>1802910
If the starving person were given a choice between a book and food, the starving person, in choosing the food, would be appraising it as more important than the book.

>>1802960
>He thinks that other anon won't be hunched over, miserably in tents, eating MREs fitfully warmed over flimsy camping stoves, the rain inevitably finding its way inside the tent.

>>1802956
I'm wearing a North Face right now actually. And I have nothing wrong with pencil-pushers, but I could never be one. My father's a pencil-pusher in upper management, my mother's a pencil-pusher... and I hate it.

>>1802960
Well, I'll try to not be one. I will be going to Graduate School after I'm done with my Undergrad work. So hopefully the time/energy expended there will allow me to skip being a cubicle monkey. And if worse comes to worse, I'll simply be the guy that bosses around interns all day.

>>1802963
Not even a bit jealous. My one regret is that I won't remember this conversation even happening in seven years, so I will never have the chance to prove /lit/ wrong.

>>1802947
>a damn side better

>>1802976
Either non-sequitur or a tautology using a contrived definition of importance.

>>1802983
That's cool, man. I could never be what you want to be, working as a free agent, no fixed private office to retreat to, at the mercy of the elements.

I like the outdoors, but on my leisure time.

I study Adventure Therapy.

I get that question all the time.

>>1802991
The only part of my job that has me worried? The lack of good internet. That and I highly suspect the miners will not be good conversationalists.

>>1802999
Sorry, what?

You used to be a s/adv/irgin, right?

>>1802988
Subjective, yes. Relevant? Yes. I'm done.

working on masters in librarian science. yup. its a science.

>>1803006

Nope, I never browsed /adv/.

I'll work for NOLS, Outward Bound, or a Wilderness Therapy program out west.

But I have no interest in /adv/.

>>1803004
>Miners will not be good conversationalists.

Hahahaha, nope. And neither will you be after you spend weeks in the field, alone. You'll be desperate for human company, though.

I have a few friends who have done your exact path and gone on to become professionals in the field. All, without exception, turn into awkward, gangly, silent men. Still love drinking beers and hearing stories from them, though.

>>1803004

You know, Captain, we're the coolest mother fuckers here.

Love,
-AT guy

>>1803019
>Coolest mother fuckers
>AT Guy probably also wears North Face

Yeah, OK, bro.

>>1803022

Marmot, Arc'Teryx, Mountain Hardware, EMS, or Moosejaw.

But no, never TNF.

>>1803024
>He thinks Arc'Teryx is better

>>1803032

Well, when you're 12,000 feet up during a storm... it pretty much is.

>>1803019
Who exactly is the AT guy? I've seen a lot of tripfags/namefags in my time around here. Never you seen before, though.

>>1803017
Ah, excellent, nothing changes then.
And if all else fails I'll just get a degree in paleontology. There's no job security, no pay, but it would be damn good fun while it lasted.