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[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 50 points 11 months ago

Business, the most useful, useless degree πŸ˜€

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago
[-] Lionel@endlesstalk.org 21 points 11 months ago

This comment traveled through time

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

dont know what you want to be when you grow up? business major is broadly useful for anyone. everyone's life would be improved by picking up a college textbook on finance, for example.

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

personal finance book:

"be born rich and with good parents, lol"

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago

"How to buy a house: sell the house you currently own, and buy a new one."

[-] ashe@lemmy.starless.one 34 points 11 months ago

"How to get a job: have work experience."

"How to get work experience: get a job."

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

"We are looking for a recent graduate with a master's degree and with 5-10 years experience minimum "

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Useless information that is A. common sense B. easily searchable online or C. provided by befriending an actual business owner D. through work experience. Most of the degree is actually learning sociopathic tricks, like how to handshake or posture to intimidate

Business majors are pretty much destined to become dusty middle managers because they lack creativity or brains

Edit: Pro-tip, if you're smart and pedantic at least pick law... Then you have some chance of helping someone. Business degrees are for failed entrepreneurs, they further entrench the notion higher education is a joke

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Can't help but feel like this was written and upvoted by people sitting comfortably on the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

I fully expect this comment to be downvoted, but that doesn't make it less true.

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Reddit refugee defends MBAs

Can't make this shit up. Seethe and cope

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Not knowing the difference between a business major and an MBA illustrated my point perfectly. Nice job!

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 15 points 11 months ago

There it is, the seethe! MBA is by far the most common business degree. Try again 😜

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Ah I didn't realize you weren't being serious. My bad. Make sure to use a /s next time to avoid confusion!

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 months ago

Typical, appeal to confidence when YOU misinterpret something πŸ˜†

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have an MBA from a prestigious school, and an MS from a state school and this meme is 100% true.

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

I mean, even assuming that business degrees aren't a waste of money and time, learning things you would pick up working in the corporate world anyway, while not learning any creative or practical skills...

Humanities still make better general-purpose degrees because they actually teach you things like critical thinking, questioning your sources and their biases, self-examination, etc. Things that society needs now more than ever. From my experience of friends with philosophy degrees, the world would be a vastly better place if even 1 in 20 people had one.

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Spot on.

Besides, business schools are also for students to make contacts and connections with people in the industry and their peers.

[-] Elivey@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They do all that at their frat parties while spiking women's drinks.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I don’t need an IQ above room temperature to see business majors are even worse off.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Most of the degree is actually learning sociopathic tricks, like how to handshake or posture to intimidate

Never took a business class but I don't think that's taught at university.

They're born with that ability.

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

damn, and here I was, actually kinda interested in a Defence Against The Business Arts class

[-] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 25 points 11 months ago

WTF I picked up a finance textbook and now I'm in debt for like eighty billion dollars?! And I have to buy the online portal code separately!? What a rip-off!

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

No reselling that book either young man

Unless its through the campus book store where youll get 20% of its value

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago
[-] amtwon@lemmy.world 95 points 11 months ago

STEM majors like to make fun of business majors for having easier homework

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 136 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

STEM majors like to make fun of business majors for contributing nothing but frustration to society

ftfy

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 28 points 11 months ago

ah yes, comp sci majors. the most happy and fulfilled people there are.

[-] StarPupil@ttrpg.network 83 points 11 months ago

A significant amount of compsci angst post-graduation is caused by business majors and their lack of knowledge about what they're managing. But the people who are currently students aren't complaining about that actual grievance, they're mostly bitter about other majors having more fun.

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 26 points 11 months ago

Almost like not valuing a craft (other than manipulation) leads people to value short-term gains over long-term growth and sustainability

Almost like this thought process is ruining the world

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago

Also the fact that they get put in charge of everything and take all the money despite knowing nothing and mostly hurting the things they're put in charge of.

[-] cypherix93@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Good thing I've already earned the titles: Rockstar Coder, Front-End Wizard, and Multiple Hat Enthusiast.

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

I am dead inside πŸ‘

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Ignorance is bliss...

[-] smooth_jazz_warlady@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 11 months ago

brb, going to grab a minor in philosophy so I can make fun of them for being ultimately useless to greater humanity and incapable of morality, ethics or self-reflection

(every business major I know easily fulfills both criteria)

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

Business degrees are many college students' backup plan if their degree of choice is too difficult for them.

[-] LoamImprovement@ttrpg.network 37 points 11 months ago

It was a running joke at Uni that Engineering was pre-business.

Source: Failed Pre-Business major.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

β€œLook to your left. Look to your right. One of you will graduate with a business degree. One will drop out. And the third will have traded their health and sanity to get bossed around by the first.”

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Our freshman class had 24 students planning to enroll with CS as there major.

Of that group 6 graduated with CS and 19 with business degrees. One Student thought it was a joke how easy it was and said "fuck it" and double majored in CS and business.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Your freshman class only had 24 CS majors? How small was your school?

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

it was a small private college. i think ~2000 undergrads

[-] nodsocket@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago

Business majors picked their course of study based on their availability to attend parties.

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 29 points 11 months ago

Business is one of the majors people make fun of for being a useless degree that teaches nothing.

[-] LemonLigger@lemmy.zip 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But surprisingly useful to signal to hr that you aren't just any moron, you're their moron πŸ’‹

Bonus,

What they think they look like, what they're actually like

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It was the default major for our football team.

[-] Elivey@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Business degrees have a curriculum designed for toddlers to make sure they have plenty of time to go to their frat parties on the weekend.

[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

The running joke at some universities used to be to direct people to the business school when they asked for directions to daycare.

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