Professor Ian Walker, leading the study, said: "Feeling warm about literature doesn't pay the rent.
So, if you're planning to do an arts degree for the career potential (as opposed to as a somewhat expensive intellectual hobby), you may be better off calling it off and getting a 3-year head start on your fast-food industry career. Or maybe not.
I never started, due to the gift of foresight (and seeing some of the absoloute fuckwits who had degrees but were too useless to either make money or get any sort of job).
This is where someone mentions getting a 'useful' qualification or apprenticeship like being a builder, plumber, chippie, plasterer etc. TISM said it best, If You're Creative, You Can Get Stuffed. "My Dad's a builder / His friend's a plumber / They're getting cancer / And you can get stuffed... "
Funny that - most of the people I knew at Uni who were doing Business Studies were some of the most vile, toady brown-nosing soulless little weasels I ever met. Sure - the art students were "arty" and a bit of a joke - but at least they had some soul.
Professor Ian Walker, leading another worthless study, said: "Artists feeling warm about literature don't pay my taxes - I however can since I'm a fat leather elbow patched crustie with a cushty position in the Undead Sciences department."
Often it seems that people who talk about "Joke Degrees" forget the true degree to which their entire society is built on a series of bad jokes..
Laters
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Thu Mar 6 20:42:55 2003
When I told my sister I was getting a philosophy degree, she quickly replied: "Well that'll come in handy."