AIBU to feel that some parents just want their children at Uni even if its a BS degree

Lots of my uni friends did degrees that you call ‘BS’, most of them have gone on to have careers related to that degree. I don’t think they’re BS at all!.

Yawn. I have a fine art degree and work in a tech job that barely existed 20 years ago. Creative degrees are more transferable than you think. If I'd done computer science then it would have been obsolete by now, my creative problem solving skills have helped me keep ahead of changes in the workplace and my degree absolutely trained me in that way.

Quite. This poster is so ridiculous 😂

A degree is only useful if it is going to land you in a well paid job, otherwise, why waste several years of your life and walk out with a 60k debt

Is it? Nursing pointless is it? Good to know.

This is hilarious 😂😂

Sounds like you have a massive chip on your shoulder OP.

Surely it's the child not the parents who wants to attend university and they also choose the degree? I have 4dc and I have encouraged them to do well at school. 2 of my dc wanted to study engineering and I asked them to consider apprenticeships but they weren't interested they wanted to go to university. One now has a successful engineering career after going to Cambridge and the other still has a year left to finish their MEng. My youngest dc is doing her gcses and has to consider her options post 18. She is completely unsure about what she should study. I wouldn't be surprised if she took a year out after her IB to decide.

You sounds like a stuck up bitch.

I went to Oxford and still did my fair share of getting shitfaced and copping off. Same as anywhere else, but more punts involved in the shitfacedness. And sometimes the copping off too.

Well your list of degrees aren’t Mickey Mouse.

Arts: not sure what you mean. Performing Arts? The Liberal Arts? Both are important in different ways. The former for an acting career, the later for having a strong command of our cultural heritage, including European Philosophy, literature, history and politics.

Studio Fine arts: as with performing arts, this is a traditional path into a career as an artist and has been for a long time.

Arth History: art history is a very academic subject akin to the liberal arts. some universities require you to study a modern foreign language like Italian or French to further your studies.

Business studies: an intellectual look at business and economics is a valid area of academic study and might be useful for someone going into business, even though it’s not essential.

Exercise Science: there are a lot of degrees in this area. Sports Science and its related areas are a growing industry because there is so much money in sport.

Fashion: again, there are valid careers from making wedding dresses through to being a designer for a fashion house or a buyer for a High Street brand.

what do you think is valid? Only STEM degrees?

University isn't about the course at all. It's about getting shitfaced and copping off.

Admittedly, others may have attended more prestigious seats of learning than me but on the whole, university teaches you a lot about life.

I'd feel sorry for the OP that they are so narrow minded if it didn't provide such insane threads. I bet those of us with BS degrees (definitely not swearing if you abreviates, right?) are also responsible for those dreadful 40 year mortgages the OP decries, as they're all we can get with our poor education.

The funniest thing is you’re quoting the daily mail……. a joke of a paper lol.

Yet another dose of ignorant bullshit. Definately worth bumping an old thread for.

Well, yes. And weirdly overinvested royal family threads with zero irony.

Well if there is ONE thing you do actually know about @DistinguishedSocialCommentator it's delusions of grandeur

Are you sure you don't have 'delusions of grandeur' OP, looking down on all those people with 'mickey-mouse' degrees?

🤔 wonder why this came back up.

On Page 1 you state, "I too can swear but its not my style. I was taught by my parents and this was reinforced at school and uni, to "swear. it shows you've lost the debate/argument."

And yet here you are using "crappy" quite cheerfully. Many people still consider that to be a swear word, and even if one does not consider that it is swearing, it is certainly vulgar. For those who do consider "crappy" to be a swear word, they can accept, by your own logic, that you have lost the debate / argument.

Also mettle rather than metal.

You see those of us with "pointless" humanities degrees can spell.

theirself isn't a word btw. Perhaps you should have concentrated a bit more on education.

awwwww, did we mess up our A levels and not get into uni?

As per last time, millions of well-paid jobs require simply "a degree"

You still sound like a bitter idiot.

How funny this has been resurrected. One of the subjects the OP derided was sports & excercise science, the very degree dd is about to embark on as a mature student. She has a specific vocational goal in mind.

But anyway. At work someone I hadn't seen for years popped by and we got to talking about our kids. Turns out his son did sports science at a lower ranked university. He went straight into a good paying job and then worked his way up. He does some amazing things and earns an absolute fortune. But also most of the other students who graduated with him are also in really good jobs, many directly related, some not.

You keep saying this. Education has a worth entirely independent of what job someone does subsequently. And your posts are continually reminders of your own lack of general education, your shrivelled worldview, your inability to understand politics and ideology, or to ponder the biases of different media outlets.