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Originally posted by Alumnus who cares:
Lil_G, I got a kick out of your comments, since I went through the same deal 5-6 years ago. I actually thought some of the classical stuff (Weber, Marx, Durkheim) was kind of interesting, if not terribly practical in the real world. I also took a criminology course my junior year, and was very disappointed. It sounded really cool when I signed up for it, but they somehow found a way to make it dull and boring by using lots of statistical crap.
And while I didn't end up flipping burgers after I graduated, I took an entry-level job with a bank (not much higher on the old totem pole). In fact, one time a manager at the bank where I worked asked me what I was doing working in a bank after I got a sociology degree, and I said, "It's either this or McDonald's." Maybe that wasn't the smartest thing to say.
Things end up working out though. My advice is: you're still young, and you have plenty of time to decide what you really want to do, and go back to school for that. That's what I'm doing now by getting my MBA.
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Maybe it was just the prof that I had that made my Weber and Durkheim classes so boring. Other classes such as the quantitative/qualitative research ones, and the anthropology courses (learning about the pygmies and the barabaig) have been better and maintain an actual use in the workplace.
Yeah i'll probably go into another field of education after i graduate. It just seemed that everyone I had class with didn't know what they would be doing after they graduated (even some honours students). A soc degree mixed with a business degree or something in computers could really be beneficial, get the best of both worlds.
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