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Not all education is the same. If memory serves a recent Chronicle of Higher Ed study had gender studies bachelors making $14/hour with software engineers makin

Not all education is the same. If memory serves a recent Chronicle of Higher Ed study had gender studies bachelors making $14/hour with software engineers making $100k/year. So maybe education is the most important factor if you only count in demand fields.

ddorian43 10y ago
What job can you get from "Gender Studies" beside teaching it ?
- DominikR 10y ago
  I guess you can make it your job to relabel boys kissing girls without asking for permission as rapist and you can also create all kinds of new genders. I heard that there's now 50+ new genders that have been created by this science. Edit: I feel it is unfair to downvote ddorian43 just for asking what kind of jobs you can have with a degree in Gender Studies. I'm not aware of a Gender Studies industry where customers pay good money for Gender Studies services and products.
  - ddorian43 10y ago
    And then you combine it with your software skills to do: https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest
- Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  There are scores of jobs in areas such as retail management that don't care what your degree was in, only that you have a degree from somewhere in something. In some, you'll get hired in as a fast-tracker to management with training and such, others you'll find opportunity with just a bit of retail experience (having a job through college can be enough). Sometimes the same is true for secretarial positions, and I'm guessing these sorts of qualifiers are everywhere.
  - adrianratnapala 10y ago
    The existence of such jobs is a smell of "class solidarity" amongs some kind of upper-middle. "We don't care what you learned, as long as you went through the right social initiation programme". By contrast, in software there is at least he potential to do things differently. On Friday I was on the interview commitee for a candidate who we accepted. Now I realize that I have no idea what degree she has (if any). Her CV was so full of past projects that I never got around to looking at her education. It would be different for a fresh graduate, but if such a CV mentioned a vocational school or an online course, then that would be neither better nor worse than a CS degree.
- merpnderp 10y ago
  Ironically the Chronicle for Higher Ed had the average pay for a Gender Studies professor at around $100k. Given the kind of debt kids with bachelors are leaving school with and their job prospects, it looks like gender studies is one of the worst parts of predatory higher education.

ddorian43 10y ago

What job can you get from "Gender Studies" beside teaching it ?

DominikR 10y ago
I guess you can make it your job to relabel boys kissing girls without asking for permission as rapist and you can also create all kinds of new genders. I heard that there's now 50+ new genders that have been created by this science. Edit: I feel it is unfair to downvote ddorian43 just for asking what kind of jobs you can have with a degree in Gender Studies. I'm not aware of a Gender Studies industry where customers pay good money for Gender Studies services and products.
- ddorian43 10y ago
  And then you combine it with your software skills to do: https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest
Broken_Hippo 10y ago
There are scores of jobs in areas such as retail management that don't care what your degree was in, only that you have a degree from somewhere in something. In some, you'll get hired in as a fast-tracker to management with training and such, others you'll find opportunity with just a bit of retail experience (having a job through college can be enough). Sometimes the same is true for secretarial positions, and I'm guessing these sorts of qualifiers are everywhere.
- adrianratnapala 10y ago
  The existence of such jobs is a smell of "class solidarity" amongs some kind of upper-middle. "We don't care what you learned, as long as you went through the right social initiation programme". By contrast, in software there is at least he potential to do things differently. On Friday I was on the interview commitee for a candidate who we accepted. Now I realize that I have no idea what degree she has (if any). Her CV was so full of past projects that I never got around to looking at her education. It would be different for a fresh graduate, but if such a CV mentioned a vocational school or an online course, then that would be neither better nor worse than a CS degree.
merpnderp 10y ago
Ironically the Chronicle for Higher Ed had the average pay for a Gender Studies professor at around $100k. Given the kind of debt kids with bachelors are leaving school with and their job prospects, it looks like gender studies is one of the worst parts of predatory higher education.