Final Post, My Choice

Taylor Newcomb

When thinking about this class and what my topic is to be, I can only think of the need for all of us to understand the purpose of all of this, because I am not sure and I wonder if other people are sure as well. By all of this, I mean the need for the project, the need for the classes, the need for the degree. 

I figure we need the project because we all want a nice paying job. A job in which we neither do this or that. Those jobs don't seem fun. This degree would then allow use to get that nice paying job because of the capitalists we all are. Yea, capitalism! The project allows us to show our worth and our need to those who can give us those good jobs. I don't know about you, but I'd rather get a job based on my project and skills rather than because some government policy told them to give me a job. The project just gives us that little bit extra in which to move forward with our lives and our careers, no matter how much of a pain in the arse it is.

As for the need for classes, we need to learn how to do stuff before we do it. In going to my preferred field, it would be possible to get some PR job based on my journalism experience, but I would prefer to know what I am doing before I start doing it. I am sure all of y'all feel the same way. The classes give us the knowledge from which to build on (that link is my particular knowledge I am taking, but to each their own). I am not a fan of just starting something new without knowing what I am doing, which is why I came back to college so many times to begin with (3rd degree is the charm). 

Finally, we need this higher degree because that is the way the world is going. We can't get good jobs anymore on a B.A. or B.S. degree anymore. I've tried. I ended up at a shoddy newspaper with a horrible boss who didn't know how to manage people. Every job I look at that would be a good career has that little disclaimer which states that a Master's degree is either preferred or very much liked. It's not much fun, but c'est la vie. It seems to be only inevitable that Ph.D's become the required or preferred degree. When that happens, I will not being going back to college. Somebody needs to flip those burgers. 

There is my topic of choice, my final post. I am not sure if I actually added to anyone's knowledge but it may be something that we needed to know. It's not fun having to stay at school, but I want a good job and I am sure y'all do to, so here we are making assignment posts on a blog so that we can get that great grade that will help us just a little more in getting that job.