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Originally Posted by HarryT
Degrees are about getting a decent job.
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Degrees can be about getting a decent job, but they can also be about engaging with an academic topic for the joy of it. I live in Denmark where the concept of "folkoplysning" is still alive and well - it means something like "people's enlightenment". The idea that education is to make better people, not just better units of production, is still quite respectable in some places, (places that often come out top of surveys of the happiest nations in the world, as it happens).
Your degree is about what you want it to be about - if it's about getting a decent job for you then make your decision based on what you think will likely lead to that outcome. If it's about something else then make your decision on the basis of that. I have degrees and higher degrees in philosophy, cognitive science and semiotics and none of them have any real value for the job market - but they have immense value to me for the way I think and live my life. But I wouldn't dream of prescribing to someone else that they should ignore job prospects and pursue a subject for purely academic fulfillment.