The main character's father, pre-story, was a student of a Rakugo school for nineteen years and made meager money performing in the interim. Please do not add real life examples to this page. This is for cataloguing such examples in fiction. So this trope seems to be Older Than Print. See also Career Not Taken.īy the way: In medieval times, alumni of the University of Paris, France got an official license to beg after they finished their studies. Contrast I Minored in Tropology, where the "useless" topic isn't as maligned so much as catches others off guard. Compare Technician Versus Performer when there is a contrast between training and knowledge vs experience and skill. See also Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving for other useless skills and talents. Compare Not That Kind of Doctor, where people assume you are a physician when your doctorate was in literature. The Worthless Foreign Degree is when you run into trouble not because of what you studied, but where you studied. See Hard on Soft Science for when scientists invoke this on other scientists. And even still, some creative application of the knowledge gained can be a great benefit when everyone else is locked into the same point of view. Students majoring in the arts have exposure to the hard sciences and vice versa. Universities aim to create well-rounded students, so they require at least two years of general education before they focus on their majors. Most Liberal Arts degrees such as English, literature, sociology and philosophy can be parlayed into graduate programs as diverse as journalism, law, political science or public administration. As a result, people getting degrees in areas with poor job prospects (fine arts, music, philosophy, etc) may get a Bachelors and then graduate degrees, and then become a low-paid, precarious sessional college instructor and train more people for the same dismal job prospects.Īll that said, advanced degrees often accumulate undergrad coursework that will help them get into a good graduate program but not help them in the job market at that point in time. Of course, people can go to college/university for far more reasons than getting a bigger paycheck personal fulfillment, joy of learning, gaining life experience by living in a college town, working on big projects with deadlines and moving away from home can all be of similar benefit regardless of the degree acquired, but some majors have little workplace potential because of being too abstract or general, creating a circular system where the best option is to turn around and teach the same subject to the next generation. If a well-paid job requires a degree, and such as a lawyer, doctor and engineer, and there are many jobs available, the likelihood of acquiring the job is greatly improved after 4-8 years of study and tons of student debt. The crux behind this trope, both in fiction and real life, tends to center around the choice of studies in comparison to the dismal market for those studies. A common use is to have the guy describe his achievements: "Yeah, graduated top three of my class, BA in Arts, my professors predicting me an easy future and all that. In short, this is a college degree in a subject that is worth less (at least, financially speaking) than the paper it is printed on, and much less than the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars you paid for it. The only thing worse for an Education Mama than her children not doing well in school is majoring in one of these. Then, you'll find that it's impossible to find work in your field, and end up working at Burger Fool for the rest of your life - assuming even the Burger Fool will hire you! Of course, if you are lucky you can become a Mad Scientist's experiment or something and at least make a name for yourself there. Wow, you took that degree? Ha! What a loser! First, all your peers will laugh at you for partying (or having your head in the clouds) instead of studying for a real, useful degree.
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