Here are the top 12 majors not recommended by people in the field:
8-12 (Tie): Liberal Arts
- 25% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $36,600
8-12 (Tie): Political Science
- 25% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $41,700
8-12 (Tie): Art History
- 25% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $36,900
8-12 (Tie): Sociology
- 25% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $37,400
8-12 (Tie): Psychology
- 25% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $36,300
6-7 (Tie): Art
- 26% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $36,100
6-7 (Tie): English Language
- 26% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $38,700
5. Journalism
- 27% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $38,100
4. Social Science
- 28% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $37,300
3. Visual Communications
- 29% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $37,300
2. History
- 33% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $39,700
1. Anthropology
- 35% wouldn’t recommend this major
- Starting pay: $36,200
I don’t see anything remarkable; except for journalism, I assumed the same about these majors when I was in college. But obviously, if only 25-35% are unhappy in the job, they are finding other satisfaction besides salary.
Survey was by PayScale and reported in Higher Ed Morning.
I wonder if this was used with gender if it would explain some gender gap in wages.
“In both 1978 and 2005, engineering, physics and mathematics lagged behind many of the humanities departments in attracting women, who tend to flock to fields ranging from art history to English, as well as the “softer” sciences, such as biology and environmental studies.” (2006, The gender gap in majors at Yale)
Then the Harvard Crimson did an article on the differences of majors by genders. And yes, anthropology was the most female of all the majors, but most of these were listed.
Georgetown University did a study in 2011 of differences in gender and race in selecting a major. The study found that white men are concentrated in the highest-earning majors, including engineering and pharmaceutical sciences, while women gravitate toward the lowest-earning majors like education, art and social work. https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/omooxnult5yvuctf0ftl
Sunday, October 05, 2014
The least recommended college majors
October 5, a perfect day, a reposting from 2003
The sky is an October color--a blue you see in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio this time of year, bordered in my side and lower vision with brilliant hues and just enough green left over from the wet summer to make a lump in my throat. But the lump is already there. Today is his birthday and I'm probably the only person who remembers.
As we drive past small towns and corn fields on a familiar route, I say to my husband, "Stanley would be 42 today." It takes a few seconds for him to pull up a memory of that plump, blonde toddler and reconstruct him as an adult old enough to be a grandfather.
"I wonder what he would look like," he says. I can't see his eyes behind his sun glasses.
"Probably just like you. Your baby pictures look so similar, except your hair was more red."
"Maybe he'd be bald by now--mine really started going after 45," he recalled.
I have little memory of what he actually looked like. I've browsed the photo album so many times that all I see when I try to recall his face are black and white and fading color snapshots and a color portrait taken at the department store in Champaign, Illinois. I do remember the way he looked when they placed him on my abdomen in the delivery room with that "what's happening" expression and the way he looked in that little casket in a new blue suit. No photos at the beginning and the end to blur history.
"We wouldn't have the kids now," he says, mentioning they'd be stopping by later to see the DVD of our trip west.
We are quiet. The harvest ready fields roll by and I think again of my favorite Old Testament verse, "Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten. . ." Joel 2:25
Go and make disciples
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After the resurrection the women who discovered it were told to go to the disciples and tell them. God used the tell-a-woman method that has worked well over the centuries because they followed his instructions. Then the 11 disciples met Jesus who was about to give them a new command (make disciples). The Bible reports, some worshipped him and some doubted. So if 11 guys who'd spent 3 years with him, watched him feed 5,000 and heal cripples and turn water into wine didn't always get it right, why expect people 2,000 years later to be smarter and more obedient than they were? I find that there are licensed drivers who disobey traffic laws; teachers with 2 degrees who don't apply even common sense let alone education principles; dog owners who don't pick up their pet's poop; and presidents who lie about health coverage after innumerable speeches of promises. And he is a Christian. So apparently Christians are forgiven, but not perfect.
Saturday, October 04, 2014
Bombing Humvees
"During the past six weeks U.S. combat jets have bombed and eliminated 41 Humvees originally given to the Iraqi military, but afterwards captured by ISIS forces. CNNMoney cited a statement from Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, that the bombs that U.S. jets are dropping on the Humvees cost $30,000 each, while the armored vehicles themselves originally cost about $250,000 each, depending how each was equipped." (New American via CNN)
If you Google that story, you'll find other news items and opinion pieces about ISIS capturing U.S. equipment as early as June. So why does Obama claim he didn't know they were a problem, or is this when he called them the JV team?
Some of the left over equipment has been given to cities and colleges so they can repress riots and unruly Tea Party members.
Friday, October 03, 2014
We need to import workers for those we’ve killed
For forty years America has legally been aborting its future; now our birth rate is below replacement. Immigration of hard working brown people who don't speak English and aren't wanted in their own country seems the solution. But is it?
A fired up President Barack Obama had a message to immigration activists at a dinner [Oct. 2] in Washington, D.C.: "No force on earth can stop us."
"The clearest path to change is to change [the voter turnout] number," said Obama, "Si se puede, si votamos! Yes, we can, if we vote!"
The inequality focus has made things less equal
The coalition that elected Obama have lost the faith--in America. That's what happens when you believe a socialist who wants to fundamentally transform a capitalist country.
"In the latest grim tiding of the public mood, merely 42% think the American dream that "if you work hard, you'll get ahead" remains true, down from 53% in 2012 and 50% in 2010. According to the Public Religion Research Institute poll last week, the steepest declines in belief in the last two years were among people under age 30 (down 16 percentage points), women (14 points) and Democrats (17)."
A president whose focus has been on reducing inequality has in fact reduced growth, thus hurting the very people he claimed to care about. http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-president-of-inequality-1412292383
Who is working?
A record 92,584,000 Americans 16 and older did not participate in the labor force in September, as the labor force participation rate dropped to 62.7 percent, a level it has not seen in 36 years (September 1978), the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.
ObamACAre: A Strategic Response for Individuals and Businesses – Our Middle Class Rescue Plan
I haven’t seen the book, but I know one of the authors.
After Bob (financial advisor) Matt (attorney and health insurance consultant) told me (Julie) what they learned from their respective expertise, I (American patriot) almost fell over myself to help them write and edit the book. Our audience is middle class, working poor, Christian, American citizens – or almost everyone in the whole nation! We simply must reach them with a way to counter the radical, regressive agenda plaguing the halls of power and influence.
Here is the pitch: All American employers and individuals need the proper knowledge before they make 2015 health care decisions … Dropped coverage, rising deductibles, tax penalties, financial cliffs all make the future of healthcare and compensation uncertain for families, especially in the middle class. How will you navigate this complicated environment to ensure you are doing the best you can? The healthcare system is in crisis. People need help.
The report is available as a printed booklet OR as a download. Both are $9.99. Please see more details here: http://centerpointstewardship.com/
Our new living room couch—Friday Family Photo
Monday we went shopping for a couch—stopped at 3 stores, and finally purchased one at Kittles we had seen last week. When they told us the delivery charge we decided to take it with us—we were sure it would fit in my van because we’d moved one of our couches to the lake house during the summer (which is why we needed a new couch). So for 2 days the couch was in the garage in the van. Wednesday our son and another man came and moved our living room couch to the family room, and brought in the new couch.
This is the couch in the van.
This is the couch in the living room. This couch is larger (taller) so we may have to get a larger painting.
This is the couch with a brown sheet from a twin set. The stretch elastic bottom sheet works really well over the back cushions. And they have already paid for themselves. Last night our cat throw up her supper on the sheets, so I’ve already washed them. Usually she throws up on the white carpet. They were very inexpensive (100% polyester) and are an exact color match.
I’m now looking for pillows that will have both blue (chair) and brown.
Which is a bigger problem for native Americans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the name Washington Redskins?
“In 2011, the Department of the Interior's Inspector General (IG), Mary Kendall, testified to Congress about the "gross program inefficiencies at many levels of Indian Affairs and in tribal management of federal funds."31 The IG described, for example, how the BIA funded a fish hatchery at a reservation for 14 years and yet no fish were hatched. Eventually, a BIA official visited the reservation and found that the alleged hatchery was actually a real estate development that the tribes had been funneling taxpayer money into.
In another incident, the BIA spent $9 million for public ferryboat service in Alaska, but the money was redirected to a private tour boat operation.32 And in Montana in 2011, 10 people—including BIA employees—were indicted for a decade-long scheme that embezzled $1.2 million from a tribal lending program operated by the Fort Peck Tribe.33
The IG found that in one BIA region, millions of dollars were wasted on road projects that were never competed. She noted that "internal management controls were so broken down that wage-grade employees were earning over $100,000 a year, with overtime, without explanation."34 On one of the road projects, $2.4 million had been spent, but the IG couldn't find any of the work that was supposed to have been done.”
http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/interior/indian-lands-indian-subsidies
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/26/politics/american-indian-settlment/index.html
The BIA and the BIE have approximately 9,000 employees.
The 2014 budget request for the Operation of Indian Programs account is $2.2 billion, an increase of $37.2 million above the 2012 enacted level, excluding a proposed transfer of Contract Support Costs out of OIP to a stand alone account.
Intimate partner violence among minorities
Black females experienced intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than that of white females, and about 22 times the rate of women of other races. Black males experienced intimate partner violence at a rate about 62% higher than that of white males and about 22 times the rate of men of other races.
Native Americans are victims of rape or sexual assault at more than double the rate of other racial groups. For Native American victims of violence, the offender was slightly more likely to be a stranger than an intimate partner, family member or acquaintance. Native Americans described the offender as an acquaintance in 34% of rapes/sexual assaults, and as an intimate partner or family member in 25% of sexual assaults.
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/domestic_violence/resources/statistics.html
Ebola—the virus has taken over the news
The news and talk shows are wall to wall Ebola. Conservative talkers are trying to make Obama look bad without saying so, and the Liberals are trying to ignore all the mess Obama has made in the Middle East, where we have ONE friend, Israel.
- Flu-associated deaths according to the CDC range from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. They really have no way of knowing.
- CDC estimates that 27,000 unintentional prescription drug overdose deaths occur annually in the United States, 40% from opioids.
- A total of 9,582 TB cases (a rate of 3.0 cases per 100,000 persons) were reported in the United States in 2013. 65% were foreign born. There were 536 deaths from TB in 2011, the most recent year for which these data are available.
- Number of deaths from injuries annually in the USA: 187,464. 80.1 million saw a physician or visited the ER or were hospitalized from injuries. 33,783 Americans died in traffic accidents and 32,351 died from firearms, including suicides. 16,238 homicides (2010), 49% were blacks who are 12.5% of the population, and 93% were committed by blacks. There are 289,171 alcohol induced deaths, and 418,068 for drugs.
. . . So, Ebola is probably the least of our worries.
Thursday, October 02, 2014
White couple suing because their daughter is bi-racial
Oh the horror! A bi-racial, AI baby for a white lesbian couple. So they sue. "They are concerned about raising her in the predominantly white community where they live." Yeah, sure. The liberal blame game. It's always someone else's attitude that is the problem. They could move; wonder if they thought of that?
Really, I wouldn’t be surprised if this weren’t a hoax.
Indigenous peoples of what is now known as The United States of America
I'm waiting for those opportunists who think the word "Indian" or “tribe” is anachronistic, oppressive and racist to file a law suit against the federal government to change to “Pueblo-dwelling peoples” or “Navajo speaking people” or “indigenous peoples.” Removing and updating government documents could employ a small army for years. The word Indian appears in thousands of documents, even agency names like Bureau of Indian Affairs. Just came across it in a gobble-de-gook summary of a section of the ACA aka Obamacare.
“With respect to the other seven exemptions, for reasons set forth below, we proposed that under the program provided for in section 1411(a)(4) of the Affordable Care Act, Exchanges would also issue certificates of exemption with respect to three additional categories (with exemptions also available through the tax filing process) based on membership in a health care sharing ministry, membership in an Indian tribe, and incarceration. In the four remaining exemption categories, however, we proposed that under the program established under section 1411(a)(4) of the Affordable Care Act, certificates would not be issued by Exchanges under section 1311(d)(4)(H) of the Affordable Care Act, and instead individuals would claim an exemption in one of those categories exclusively through the tax return filing process with the IRS.” Federal Register July 1, 2013
“Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, Assistant Professor and Director of the Office for the Study of Indigenous Social and Cultural Justice in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, considers both terms, American Indian and Native American, to be “oppressive, ‘counterfeit identities.’” He prefers the terms indigenous peoples or First Nations peoples to either American Indian or Native American.” http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nc-american-indians/5526
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/04/departments/native-names-interactive
And God forbid you should ever say “hold down the fort,” or “on the warpath” or “low man on the Totem pole” or “Indian style.”
The residue of Silent Spring is still killing
Worried about Ebola? Malaria will probably kill more while you’re reading this than the current Ebola epidemic.
“Published in 1962, Silent Spring used manipulated data and wildly exaggerated claims (sound familiar?) to push for a worldwide ban on the pesticide known as DDT – which is, to this day, the most effective weapon against malarial mosquitoes. The Environmental Protection Agency held extensive hearings after the uproar produced by this book… and these hearings concluded that DDT should not be banned. A few months after the hearings ended, EPA administrator William Ruckleshaus over-ruled his own agency and banned DDT anyway, in what he later admitted was a “political” decision. Threats to withhold American foreign aid swiftly spread the ban across the world.” http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/02/16/the-green-death/
All methods of disease control eventually lose their effectiveness, so don’t send me progressive, liberal and greenie links, but this was ripped out of the tool box of things that worked 50 years ago freeing Africans from a terrible scourge. Millions have died or been crippled, and the victims are left with bed nets and local spraying of ponds and homes (and who knows what is in that brew). What works, really works quickly, is building hysteria over diseases that may not ever harm us, or not looking at all for the causes of the current illness sending children to the hospital coinciding with an unprecedented number of illegal immigrant children being spread around the country.
http://www.nature.com/news/ebola-outbreak-shuts-down-malaria-control-efforts-1.16029
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/malaria-deaths-ebola-diarrhea-pneumonia_n_5886652.html
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