Do you judge people based upon their major in college?

[lxskllr]

A degree of any kind is meaningless to me. There's too many papered dumbasses roaming the streets, even at the doctorate level. I take every individual as an individual, regardless of education. Performance is everything.

 

[dank69]

No, I judge people primarily based on their looks, like a normal person.

:thumbsup:

 

[Modelworks]

My Philosophy degree ended up being more useful than just about any other degree I could have gotten for my career. :shrug;

If nothing else it allows you to better understand why you are or are not where you want to be

 

[Modelworks]

A degree of any kind is meaningless to me. There's too many papered dumbasses roaming the streets, even at the doctorate level. I take every individual as an individual, regardless of education. Performance is everything.

I agree. I saw an owner of a HVAC company trying to correct a installation and he was quoting numbers and the guy doing the work was telling him he had it wrong. His boss was explaining how he knew what he was talking about because he had a degree in engineering and wasn't about to listen to some day laborer. The worker then proceeded to get angry , dropped his wrench and walked down the hall muttering to himself. About 20 minutes later a steam pipe burst causing lots of damage. The engineer didn't understand that sometimes things don't work like on paper and that a degree doesn't mean you know it all.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

You have a lot to learn OP. I've worked with people as a teen that made minimum wage at a restaurant and still work there today 14 years later that are so much better than you as a person it's not even funny. Money is good and all but it won't make you happy.
When your balls finally drop and you realize what's really important in life you'll change your tone.
If the finger of judgement was pointed back at you it wouldn't be so funny. After all you're a trollish looking, lonely little man, that still hasn't even had a girlfriend. I also hate to burst your bubble but with your personality don't expect to get very far in any company. Unless of course you're a MIT grad with top grades which you're not. More often than not it's personality that gets you ahead of the next guy.

 

[ShawnD1]

I don't judge people based on their major but I do judge people based on their overall life plan. If a guy wants to weld and he becomes a welder, I respect that. If someone wants to teach and they are working on a teaching degree, I can respect that. The people I don't respect as much are the people who major in Philosophy and can't explain why they are taking it.

 

[Numenorean]

I don't judge people based on their major but I do judge people based on their overall life plan. If a guy wants to weld and he becomes a welder, I respect that. If someone wants to teach and they are working on a teaching degree, I can respect that. The people I don't respect as much are the people who major in Philosophy and can't explain why they are taking it.

Sounds like they are doing just fine.

 

[ShawnD1]

yeah well that's just your philosphy man

 

[Numenorean]

yeah well that's just your philosphy man

You don't exist, so it's okay.

 

[Gibson486]

You don't exist, so it's okay.

well...according to the IRS, philosophy majors do not exist:sneaky:

 

[Numenorean]

well...according to the IRS, philosophy majors do not exist:sneaky:

Damn, maybe I should have been a philosophy major then.

Oh wait.. :hmm:

 

[Spikesoldier]

TridenT: Im a failure, but this piece of paper sez I aint.


Hope you dont fail to get that piece of paper, otherwise you'd be really fucked.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I've met too many engineers (with PhDs even!) who I wouldn't trust to put air into my tires. I've met technicians (required only to have high school degree) who I trust absolutely.

Most of my friends aren't engineers, and they're not technical.


So, no, I don't judge based on major. I probably would judge a person based on whether they judge people based on major.

 

[ShawnD1]

I've met too many engineers (with PhDs even!) who I wouldn't trust to put air into my tires. I've met technicians (required only to have high school degree) who I trust absolutely.

People seem to get more disconnected from reality as they get more education. People with PhDs seem to have no practical hands on skills. I worked for a PhD pharmacist who would make silly first year chem student mistakes like making a trend line using methanol as the solvent then run samples using ethanol as the solvent. [/QUOTE]

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I've met too many engineers (with PhDs even!) who I wouldn't trust to put air into my tires. I've met technicians (required only to have high school degree) who I trust absolutely.

My grad school advisor in engineering school was like this -- if it weren't for us grad students working on projects, writing software, and designing/building hardware for our corporate sponsors, I don't know what he would've done. We did all the work and wrote all the papers and of course, he slapped his name on them first.

I had another professor for some sort of object-oriented methodology class. I didn't learn a thing, but this guy's specialty was allegedly artificial intelligence. The running joke about him was that it was good he was an expert in artificial intelligence, because he sure didn't have any natural intelligence to rely on.

 

[torpid]

I thought I did, but then I read the OP with his ridiculously narrow area of acceptable college degrees and decided that I probably don't qualify as being judgmental about degrees if that is the mark. There are plenty of lucrative fields other than engineering. Also, I would like to point out that a fair % of people who work in IT don't have degrees and make more money than a just-out-of-college engineer - especially with the ~4 extra years of job experience.

 

[Kirby]

lol, tridentboy is the last person on earth who can criticize another person.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I thought TridenT was in Comp Sci?

 

[Capt Caveman]

I thought TridenT was in Comp Sci?

No, he's in Failing 101 and getting straight A's.

 

[gevorg]

I judge people by their join date, post count and subforums they mostly post in.

 

[HeXen]

no, i don't give a crap about smoeones education. simply cause even i know more about computers than some graduates who major in them. I judge people based on how they act more than anything else.

 

[Cheesemoo]

Ah OK, I understand, over here we don't have such things a degree in x is just a degree in x there's no two subjects.

Clarification on Minors: you dont have to have a minor. You can just get your Major Degree. I almost got my Minor in Math, but figured I didnt need it and it would have pushed my graduation date back a little.

I just ended up with a B.S. in Engineering, no minor.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

no, i don't give a crap about smoeones education. simply cause even i know more about computers than some graduates who major in them. I judge people based on how they act more than anything else.

I knew a guy who graduated with a degree in Computer Technology who would go around saying he was one of the top programmers in the world (he said he was top 10%). Anyway, he needed Office reinstalled on his system once and he was told to install it himself since he had admin rights to his PC. He said he didn't know how.....

 

[waggy]

lol Trident posting this? hahahahahahha

 

[heavyiron8]

No, I judge people based on their work ethics, and how they treat others.

And this is coming from somebody that's 2nd year computer science major with a GPA of 3.9 at a high ranked CS department in the nation.

Get off your high horse, OP. Just because somebody decided to major in liberal arts doesn't mean they're any less capable than you.