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So all of you engineers, computer or otherwise can just stuff it.
Hey now, I'm on your side here!
I know I know. I’m a STEM person but I’m also sick of the rhetoric that only STEM careers are worthwhile.
I guess my point was that degrees shouldn't only be "for careers".
There are a lot of creative folks, whose only limitations in the wonders and beauty they can create participate, and do of their own joy are the limitations of their understanding of the world and language and each other.
Consider Bobbie: Bobbie works at McDonalds as manager. It pays the bills, and it's work that, while she kind of hates, she loves her coworkers and community exposure. Even so, the folks at corporate will not promote Bobbie unless she proves she can get a degree, and hold to an accomplishment of that calibre.
So, Bobbie gets a degree.
Does Bobbie need a STEM degree? HELL NO! She is already a master of her trade, in fact, managing teenagers well enough to keep a store fully staffed.
Instead, we should consider that Bobbie may benefit everyone much more if she gets a degree in Art, working on sculptures.
What does that have to do with flipping burgers?
Nothing, of course.
But over the course of it, a great many buildings and spaces will be enriched by Bobbie's contribution not to flipping burgers but by the fantastic sculptures she makes and donates to the community, one or two of which might end up gracing the McDonald's parking lot.
And in the mean time, she gets to learn foreign languages (Spanish, so she is more fluent with some of the team members who happen to have immigrated), technical writing, some psychology, and maybe some philosophy, too.
In the process of getting a degree for personal edification, while it barely changes her JOB much at all, it dramatically increases her happiness with her own life, and increases her involvement with her community.