Is Communications a Bullshit Major?

Freedom Dumb,

you can say its a BS major all you want but the fact of the matter is - i am going to school to learn how to teach children and when i graduate (with my masters) that is just what i will do. Just because the major is clear cut does not mean it is a joke.

Hell, i wish i could major in phys ed! (school does not offer it). The fact that more than 25% of children are overweight expresses how badly kids need to learn how to be healthy and physically fit.

No thanks necessary Freedom One, for spending more time with your kids than you will.

You sound just like my sister. She has a masters in EE and has always been totally pissed that you can make great money selling IT business solutions to large corporations (bullshitting your way through life as you called it).

Somebody has to sell the shit that you geniuses invent or the business model will fail..you invent it, I'll sell it.

Nova Comm Grad wrote:

You sound just like my sister. She has a masters in EE and has always been totally pissed that you can make great money selling IT business solutions to large corporations (bullshitting your way through life as you called it).

Somebody has to sell the shit that you geniuses invent or the business model will fail..you invent it, I'll sell it.

It sounds like your sister should have found a different profession.

In the end we all work together to make money.

Nova Comm Grad wrote:

You sound just like my sister. She has a masters in EE and has always been totally pissed that you can make great money selling IT business solutions to large corporations (bullshitting your way through life as you called it).

Somebody has to sell the shit that you geniuses invent or the business model will fail..you invent it, I'll sell it.

That sounds about right.

Your sister would probably laugh at your technical understanding of what you are selling, yet if she had to sell the stuff she would most likely suck so bad at it that nobody would buy it. So you end up getting paid more even though an engineer gets raked through the coals in school. It used to bother me that it works out this way, but whenever I need graphics for my software program, or I need to speak in front of a group, I realize I suck pretty badly in both those departments that I see having those skills as a valuable asset.

Communications positions can be demanding. So only major in communications if you're serious about it. After graduation you can expect long hours and lots of stress ... one of the reasons why I continue to run.

But, if you're successful, then the rewards can be many and quite satisfying. Whether you're working as a press secretary for some elected official or working as a publication manager in the corporate or association world, you'll enjoy it if you're serious about it.

It's no bullshit major and certainly not a bullshit job.

Homer: Dont worry, you can always fall back on your major in... COMMUNICATIONS!!!

Loechanko: Oh tis true Loechanko learn notting.

How is it demanding? Because you're delivering bad news all the time? I'm honestly curious about what the downside is...

Let me give you a very quick insight: what you do today has only a small effect on your future. As long as you do not flunk out of college, you can get an underwater basketweaving degree, and you will be just fine. What your employer will care about is the quality of work you do in the firm or in the firm from which you were hired.

I am an Industrial Engineering major who got turned down by Bain and McKinsey and consequently got a programming job for far more money, who then started doing client relationship management and now am in the financial industry running my own business with my own clients, managing about $1 billion in assets. Who would have thought?

Oh wait, I'm an engineering major. I cannot communicate, write or present. Sorry, me dum enginere. Lik sircuts and computers. Me Java.Write.AllDayLong().

Depends on what your goals are. I majored in Communications at Villanova. It gave me a great speaking and writing background..perfect for a large corporation sales career. At age 22 I made $75K and more with each passing year. AT age 28 I made $110K and have made no less than $145K since age 30, and I'm now 43.

My engineering and business major friends can't write a f***ing sentence and their presentation skills suck ass. I had a blast in college studying acting, radio and TV journalism all for my Communications B.A. and it continues to pay off...most of the chicks majoring in Communications are smoking..they want TV jobs etc...so there's an added bonus...unless you're a girl.

Nova Comm Grad wrote:

Depends on what your goals are. I majored in Communications at Villanova. It gave me a great speaking and writing background..perfect for a large corporation sales career. At age 22 I made $75K and more with each passing year. AT age 28 I made $110K and have made no less than $145K since age 30, and I'm now 43.

My engineering and business major friends can't write a f***ing sentence and their presentation skills suck ass. I had a blast in college studying acting, radio and TV journalism all for my Communications B.A. and it continues to pay off...most of the chicks majoring in Communications are smoking..they want TV jobs etc...so there's an added bonus...unless you're a girl.

My friends that majored in communications always had a complex when it came to engineering and business majors. :)

Nova Comm Grad wrote:

My engineering and business major friends can't write a f***ing sentence and their presentation skills suck ass. I had a blast in college studying acting, radio and TV journalism all for my Communications B.A. and it continues to pay off...most of the chicks majoring in Communications are smoking..they want TV jobs etc...so there's an added bonus...unless you're a girl.

Of course while you are bullshitting your way through life, all the technology that you come to depend on are developed by engineers. Fortunately there are enough of them around so that you can live a comfortable life where having presentation skills is actually a paying job.

It depends categorically on the kind of communication you're trying to master.

Why, oh dear God why, have you revived a 17 year old thread? Actually, there are people who were born when this thread was started and are now (unfortunately) choosing to be communications majors

Revision: the only crime here is reviving the thread to contribute absolutely nothing of substance

Just find whatever major is the most popular one with the D1 Football program at a P5 conference school and you'll have your answer.

I was a COMM major, and took great delight ten years or so out of college when the network share our department used was called COMM.

Then I worked as a government spook and can't tell you anything beyond that, and often thought to myself how funny life is. It's not what you were taught. It's what you know.

When I think of stupid majors I think if majors with limited job opportunities after college… in that sense, yes a communications major is worthless. What does one even do with a communications degree??

elem Ed or physical we majors… definitely NOT stupid majors. Assuming Those people are graduate they are very easily able To find jobs and there are tons of jobs for people graduating with tbsoe degrees.

communications degrees= worhtless

any education degree= totally worthwhile!