What’s kinda sad is that I wish I could agree with Free Hat.
As an undergrad at UCSD I (as wells as the rest of the freshmen class) had to take the “Dimension of Culture” courses had little to do with my major. Wasted a good year and a half on that. Left leaning professors who were a dime a dozen. I had to buy my books from a small, cramped bookstore that had “Free Mumia Jamal” type of posters strewn all over the place. The bookstore wouldn’t take a credit card, to avoid becoming a corporate loophole. No, seriously.
As I was finishing up my masters, my professors were quick to admit that people with masters are dime a dozen nowadays. If you want to work at even CAL state level, you had to be significantly published (PHD a must), as well as some other qualification outside of your degree. I have a decent shot at some adjunct positions, but I’m not holding my breath.
If you have a doctorate or PHD in the law, medicine or science, maybe your degree is relevant. With fine arts or political science or something, not so much. Unless you have oodles of experience in the relevant field.
