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eric tom sent from the atlantic wrote a great article and he talks about how
georgetown university center on education and
the work force
complex compile data on
what majors paid the most money when you graduate
okay now in my opinion this research is a little simplistic because of course
there's so many other factors that lead into it they give you a good idea of
what how much money you can expect to make based on your major
okay so at the washington post actually made a graph
of georgetown sc findings
and i want to show you guys the graphs you get an idea of what they found
so quick to the graph at the vet
harry bottom of the list
you find education okay if you graduate with an education degree you can expect
to make about forty two thousand dollars a year that's a very small amount of
money especially if you end up going to university that costs you a hundred two
hundred fifty thousand dollars to attend of at the very top of the list is
engineering
engineering degrees typically make seventy five thousand dollars a year
so if you know in the middle
uh... you'll see communications in journalism which is what i studied
usually if u are lucky enough to find a job in communications in journalism
you'll need about fifty thousand dollars a year
and you know this this is an important craft to look at because as i said it
really gives you a good idea
as to whether or not entering a certain program makes sense
and not every single school has the same tuition you guys already knew that you
know it definitely costs abm a lot more money to attend let's say usd for
journalism
as opposed to seize on which is where i went for journalism
so idu look if i graduate with a massive amount of debt and aimed at getting a
job like you might see if there's not going to be able to pay off the hook
so you know this isn't yet
a little bit okay today i'd accident
is doing fine
hooding
well that's the thing is was that source for the cost of engineering ellsberg
mhm and were also i realized
after graduation is
members
yeah i guess in the right field who knows what it may be but it could be
open kind of bizarre level of business
i had not heard from a french as i would like to move
tool a different state
turned it down
that uh... analyzed i would've hated my life so
it's kinda puts more pressure
if your plan is from begin a thought
issues in major into some of the kids who are undecided
in up to software here still undecided
as to what they want to do
then you have to me that problem so he's coming eighteen-year-old ticket
him as well you know what you're doing it
twenty-two when you still a kitten and
so i think the star sitting on a guy's caramel
but level or what
up guidance counselors can have
helping out with a high school but i think the only such maybe if there are
two billion who haven't i don't know the the routine
but a lot of times always got my schools is de di thi towards the best scholars
it since you are where you want to be and how did get into collars were
how to choose which one do afterwards writing that you won't be stuck with
that
and maybe this is our times
may have changed yeah and you know you make a really good point when it comes
to that because
a lot of people do enter four-year universities thinking that they're going
to get a degree in
i don't know what's a mathematics or something and then they realize i
heat mathematics i i don't want to get a degree in this
so instead they decide to ***
completely abandoned that and start setting something else
then you're looking at you know six seven year
undergraduate that career as opposed to four years which ends up costing a lot
more money
so that's why a game plan is so important and you know you're right
there a counselors i was lucky enough to have a really good counselor at my high
school who
constantly pushed us to really think about what we want to after high school
not a lot of high schools have that so it's really important for many parents
talk to kids
or you know
find a way to get kids to investigate what they're going to do before they do
it
and if you're undecided eighteen it makes complete sense to be uncertain
about what you want to do for the rest of your life so what you can do is go to
a community college which i think that community college are still community
community colleges are so underrated
and so under-appreciated in society people think like of you graduate high
school district to community college
that's it your failure no that's not the case at all i hate when people think
that way
if you're undecided about what you want to do
go to a community college transfer out into university that you really like and
get your major dot mailto
with was that the
that the community college does different it significantly cheaper right
and if you're undecided it doesn't make sense to go to a four year college and
pay triple the amount of money to take your cheese
right so the classes that don't really go towards your major but you have to
take sixty units in something that's not related to your major
so you take sixty units unit on the general education field like
adn english math alot
you know sometimes have to take some pat credits in humanities even if you're
getting a business degree
you get what i'm saying
don't go to a four-year college and spend all their money on that unless you
know exactly you want to do and what pap you want to take
goto community college get that out of the way and then i'll give you time to
really think about what you want to do with it it would be wasting time view of
the
silks and leaving the fields that you don't want you to do he's going to get
through it
you know it's it's but i guess is the file processed account has been changed
his i was doing
johnson
submit
you'd feel like you guys is the waste of time
and it's the same to minors
but that that mindset is wrong because it doesn't take more time if you have
like up perfect schedule and you take full time classes
it takes these exact same amount of time to go to a community college get your
g_e_'s done
and then go to a four year and then get your major dot
okay because the cheesecake two years the major takes another two years that's
for years right there
it's all about knowing what you're doing before you get into it who've been
afraid
allotted flight
tonight instead of reading of you know pay a pretty funny for that
feeding into a fat you know two years later he didn't have to be
right after high school but i get that i'd get the appeal graduating high
school going straight into a four-year
but unfortunately you know that there's a price to pay for that now
which i hate i think that i think that we do need to have this discussion that
this is even conversation that we need to have
idea makes more sense to find a way to lower the cost of education
so you don't have to have these ridiculous conversations of how we can
scheming
you know wiggle our way into the education system without spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars
itself pathetic and sad
you know i think that were made our country great was the fact that people
were able to go and get higher education
just for stopping lightning when they didn't have to think about it as an
investment
but now what are we going to do were in this huge messy thing politicians are
going to change this you see this i mean *** just by looking at this crap
education is the very last thing
on this list of profitable majors why is that it's because politicians don't
they don't value education okay they pretend like they do
whenever there on the campaign trail they pretend like education is the most
important thing to them
but it's really not
i mean if there was a man would be paying teachers forty two thousand
dollars a year most of the time less than that