What tier is your degree?

[nageov3t]

Is it me, or are there more and more titles where they stick some random ass word in front of "engineer" and make it a position? What is a 'storage engineer'? What are you storing? Is there even such a degree?

idk, my company set the title... in my previous job, I was a Storage Administrator; only real difference is that now I do less operational stuff (ie: growing volumes, fabric zoning) and more stuff like capacity planning, meeting with vendors to review new products, discussing storage performance/capacity requirements with application managers, etc.

I work for a hospital, so we've got pretty large digital storage requirements between patient records, MRI scans, high-res microscope images from research labs, and stuff like that.

 

[pete6032]

How is philosophy considered mid tier?

 

[sdifox]

Top Tier

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

How is philosophy considered mid tier?

Because this is a stupid shit image that people post in 4chan /b/ to rile up certain crowds.

Basically, people like STEM majors trying to say their piece of paper is better than a different piece of paper.

 

[steppinthrax]

How is philosophy considered mid tier?

If any, philosophy should be low tier.

 

[pete6032]

I'm assuming this is based on earnings potential.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I'm assuming this is based on earnings potential.

...This isn't based on anything other than what someone posted on 4chan lol.

Degree doesn't mean anything as far as a job is concerned. If you suck with interviews, you will never get a job. If you don't get a masters (instead of just a bachelors) in many of these, you will never get a successful career.

 

[purbeast0]

...This isn't based on anything other than what someone posted on 4chan lol.

Degree doesn't mean anything as far as a job is concerned. If you suck with interviews, you will never get a job. If you don't get a masters (instead of just a bachelors) in many of these, you will never get a successful career.

lol you sound so mad. and this is such bs. degrees mean something to get you in the door in your field and without that you won't gain experience. i'd agree that degrees don't mean jack after you've been working for some time, but they sure as shit mean stuff when you are getting off your feet.

there are also PLENTY of people that have no personal skills and flat out don't know how to interview that get great jobs and go on to have great careers because they are very good technically.

agreed about masters, although in STEM fields i think masters are not needed at all and actually don't mean jack shit, at least in the area i'm in with software development.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

lol you sound so mad. and this is such bs. degrees mean something to get you in the door in your field and without that you won't gain experience. i'd agree that degrees don't mean jack after you've been working for some time, but they sure as shit mean stuff when you are getting off your feet.

there are also PLENTY of people that have no personal skills and flat out don't know how to interview that get great jobs and go on to have great careers because they are very good technically.

agreed about masters, although in STEM fields i think masters are not needed at all and actually don't mean jack shit, at least in the area i'm in with software development.

Sorry, didn't mean to come off that they don't matter at all - That's obviously never the case. My point is they are just one of MANY MANY factors including:

1) Relation to the job (Friend, Family, etc..) - This helps you out more than a degree ever will
2) Interview Skill - If you're a bumbling moron, you will never get the job. If you are very slick in your social skills you can easily trump yourself up past the most qualified person if you are good at selling yourself.
3) Prior job experience
4) Again Degree is just a piece of paper. I've seen so many job requirements where it simply says "Bachelor degree"... doesn't even matter which one they say, as long as you have one.
5) Certifications
6) Many other factors, such as relationship to the company (Work with the competitor previously, for example)

#1, #2, and #3 will land you a job WAAAAAAY easier than #4.

 

[disappoint]

I have an EE degree but I would still rearrange the f out of that crappy image.

 

[steppinthrax]

Sorry, didn't mean to come off that they don't matter at all - That's obviously never the case. My point is they are just one of MANY MANY factors including:

1) Relation to the job (Friend, Family, etc..) - This helps you out more than a degree ever will
2) Interview Skill - If you're a bumbling moron, you will never get the job. If you are very slick in your social skills you can easily trump yourself up past the most qualified person if you are good at selling yourself.
3) Prior job experience
4) Again Degree is just a piece of paper. I've seen so many job requirements where it simply says "Bachelor degree"... doesn't even matter which one they say, as long as you have one.
5) Certifications
6) Many other factors, such as relationship to the company (Work with the competitor previously, for example)

#1, #2, and #3 will land you a job WAAAAAAY easier than #4.

And, while those reasons are good. Many are not born with the "gift of the gab" or a social butterfly. Some take time to develop, while others never.

I suffered in 1, 2, 3, and 5 on your magic list. However I got several job offers within about a month out of college. I went in, interviewed, explained my lack of exp. They see a computer science degree and INITIATION. I'm in the mid-six figure range. I'm working on my own business now. My next goal in life is to become completely and utterly self-employed!!!!

You see anti-college, anti-education etc.... I've dealt with many like this. They don't have a college education and they do well, therefore they put down everyone who did go to college. But they don't grasp the fact that the United States is one country where not having degree will make it hard, but not impossible...

 

[biostud]

Mid tier / biology

 

[Capt Caveman]

I'm assuming this is based on earnings potential.

No, just based on one person's opinion.

 

[Pens1566]

God x 2

 

[Svnla]

LOL @ the chart.

Business is in the same category as Music, Psychology? And Medicine is below Engineering? Really?

So now Janitor/clean up the toilet = "Environmental Engineer"?

 

[steppinthrax]

LOL @ the chart.

Business is in the same category as Music, Psychology? Really?

Business is very broad. It doesn't directly tie to a position....

You can't come out with a Business degree and drop into a pos. You would go very entry level first, then work your way up. That would all depend on if you have the attributes on s0me0nesmind1's magic list.

At that rate, you'd better off choosing another. Of the majors there in that cat I would probably pick Business.

 

[steppinthrax]

LOL @ the chart.

Business is in the same category as Music, Psychology? And Medicine is below Engineering? Really?

So now Janitor/clean up the toilet = "Environmental Engineer"?

There are Janitors/cleaners that make a shit-ton

Think crime seen cleanup.

Cleaning subways of NYC with some exotic funky hazmat shit.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Business is very broad. It doesn't directly tie to a position....

You can't come out with a Business degree and drop into a pos. You would go very entry level first, then work your way up. That would all depend on if you have the attributes on s0me0nesmind1's magic list.

At that rate, you'd better off choosing another. Of the majors there in that cat I would probably pick Business.

Uhhhh... ANY degree has you start off as entry level. If you get a STEM do you go directly to teaching professor, or do you start out as assistant?

You can get a business degree and easily start off at a Big 4 with a damn good salary and climb the ranks to partner within 10 years making $800k+ Most of the other degrees would still be in school finishing their degrees (master/doctorate) and hoping they get a starting job that pays much less.

Simply put, you have no idea what you're talking about in the business world. You're in the socially inept IT world that I deal with all the time.

 

[steppinthrax]

Uhhhh... ANY degree has you start off as entry level. If you get a STEM do you go directly to teaching professor, or do you start out as assistant?

You can get a business degree and easily start off at a Big 4 with a damn good salary and climb the ranks to partner within 10 years making $800k+ Most of the other degrees would still be in school finishing their degrees (master/doctorate) and hoping they get a starting job that pays much less.

LOL,

You seem to be the only person I know that blows up a Business degree this much. This is the first I've heard of this and prob the only time. When in college, the business fields seem pretty watered down and easy peesy courses.

Business degree with 800K LMAO.....

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

LOL,

You seem to be the only person I know that blows up a Business degree this much. This is the first I've heard of this and prob the only time. When in college, the business fields seem pretty watered down and easy peesy courses.

Business degree with 800K LMAO.....

Wow, you really have zero clue do you? Hopefully others here that can venture outside of their IT cubicle come in here to school you further.

This is just sad if you don't know how much people in the business world make.

EDIT: Also, $800k is starting salary for partners, they easily make it into the $1M+ after a couple successful years.

 

[Svnla]

Oh look here, let see the top dogs (CEOs) of the real world (Fortune 500 companies), let see what they studied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-college-2015-3

All the CEOs have at least a bachelor's degree, and several have master's degrees, mostly MBAs.

Goodness, a lot of them studied business (MBA). What a bunch of morons, in the shit tier <tongue in cheek>.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

God tier (EE).

Oh look here, let see the top dogs (CEOs) of the real world (Fortune 500 companies), let see what they studied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-college-2015-3




Goodness, a lot of them studied business (MBA). What a bunch of morons, in the shit tier <tongue in cheek>.

Don't have time to read the article as I'm about to run to a meeting, but I think many of those MBAs are probably from Ivy League Universities, right? The biggest advantage there is the networking IMO.

 

[Svnla]

God tier (EE).



Don't have time to read the article as I'm about to run to a meeting, but I think many of those MBAs are probably from Ivy League Universities, right? The biggest advantage there is the networking IMO.

Nope, only 3 out of 10 were from Ivy League.

Of course, this is still an accomplished group. All the CEOs have at least a bachelor's degree, and several have master's degrees, mostly MBAs. Three have grad degrees from Ivy League schools. In a new book &#8212; "Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be" &#8212; New York Times columnist Frank Bruni points out that only 30% of American-born CEOs of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 attended an elite college.

 

[Maximilian]

Hmm either top tier or low tier... :\

Q62 Computing & IT, software development specialization.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Oh look here, let see the top dogs (CEOs) of the real world (Fortune 500 companies), let see what they studied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-college-2015-3




Goodness, a lot of them studied business (MBA). What a bunch of morons, in the shit tier <tongue in cheek>.

Where OP's head is right now: