Ot what jobs are there for a b in arts degree?

Bagger at the supermarket.

With an arts degree they maybe could work up to putting together the display of this weeks sale items.

A Bachelor of Arts in criminology is useful; English literature not so much.

I could have taken a B.A. in Computer Science but I chose to take a B.S. by (IIRC) taking extra math courses.

The devil's in the details.

Cindy Hamilton

Is that question mark the WHOLE content of your thought process?

That's right. Friends daughter has one in art history and now works as an office clerk.

It is. The thought process was in the title. Thanks "hon".

My wife had a BA in art history but she followed that up with a MA in library science. It worked out well for her. She retired as a curator at Columbia University. She had a plan; I never did.

Having a plan is key.

To what?

I (as probably 75%+ if not higher) had a very vague idea of what I thought would be a kewl thing to do, but that didn't work out...where I ended up had very little bearing on where I started; what I learned later I really enjoyed (and was good at) I didn't even know existed as an undergrad student or for several years later...

The purpose of a basic education is to teach one to be able to think and reason logically; from there it matters little about what field one is in to apply those precepts.

Certain technical or specialty fields do require specific training/knowledge, of course, but there's a far wider range of possible avocations beyond that what a degree is in has little bearing on the ability to do the specific job.

It used to be that way.

Now colleges teach you to blindly follow whatever they tell you. Especially if you take anything but technical courses like engineering or doctoring.

So. What art degrees get what? Never argue with someone who starts with "so".

If it opened the door to a higher education, that's fine. Most good jobs tend to need the higher education. Our two lawyer sons stared with BS's in business administration.

If you can cut it, I think STEM degrees are best and even then you need advanced degrees. They open more pathways. I know lawyers with degrees in science but know no scientists with degrees in liberal arts.

My first introduction to programming in college involved FORTRAN IV and punch cards. I thought it sucked. Even then is was more 'here's a tool you guys will probably use like a glorified slide rule' rather than a separate discipline. A couple of my friends who did like it dropped out and got jobs. Formal education wasn't moving fast enough for them.

It took about ten years before I started doing assembler programming for the microcontrollers that were infiltrating industry. I enjoyed it and still do. I certainly didn't plan that as a career.

I certainly didn't plan to get into education, that is for sure. I wanted to do engineering. That pathway was blocked so I went into the trades instead. Eventually managed to get into Uni in my late 20s but still not in engineering - instead a career in technical education.

You don't seem to realize that a Bachelor of Arts degree is not necessarily in a field related to the fine arts.

You can get a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics.

Cindy Hamilton

That reminds me of an old joke...

The guy with the engineering degree asks "How does this work?" The guy with the physics degree asks "Why does this work?" The guy with the finance degree asks "How much will this cost?" The guy with the art degree asks "Do you want fries with that?"