(07-13-2017 10:21 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(07-13-2017 10:08 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  I went from Managing Exports for a container line

Which container line? I used to route global household goods via sea.......

Evergreen. I was there from '05-'09. They were a great company, paid much higher than anyone else and 100% insurance for employees and families. Closed our office and offered me a job in Dallas, but just bought a house and was upside down bigly. Had to do a complete career change or take a 30% cut to work for someone else.

BTW if you ever wondered where my screen name came from, here's your answer.

(07-13-2017 10:45 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  BTW if you ever wondered where my screen name came from, here's your answer.

Makes perfect sense to me!

I used Evergreen a lot. almost exclusively. Great company, booked the containers from an office in the Chicagoland area.

(07-12-2017 09:08 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 09:05 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 08:57 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 08:15 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 11:31 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Lol, English majors. Why would you major in a language that you speak?

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It's more about the literature of the particular language.

I have both a BA & MA in English for ECU. I have since worked as a stockbroker (pre-crash), a Program Manager for 2 aerospace companies, and currently do contract writing work for a large software company. I do very well salary-wise and get to work from home everyday. I'd say my English degrees worked out fine.

But the reason I became an English major in the first place was that I hadn't declared yet and it was my junior year... I found that English was my shortest path to graduation. Also, I was good at it... there's no real wrong answer when it comes to literary analysis, as long as you can BS well enough.

Funny how all those years BSing a 5 page paper into a 10 page paper and now it is using the art of brevity to make a 40 page proposal 25 pages.

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When I got out of college, I had to unlearn everything I learned in college about writing. In business they don't want interesting sentence structure with lots of adjectives. They want noun-verb-subject.

Yup. In business you write to the bottom level of reader and you write to be understood. That said, interesting sentence structure has its place in the book writing business---but only as an end product.

Look, anyone with drive, ambition, and a modicum of smarts can generally carve out a nice income in the US (with or without a degree). That said, the WHOLE point in getting a degree these days is to get a better job. The cost of a degree today makes that entire concept more iffy if you dont land a significantly better job. So, why not go ahead and invest in a degree that statistically offers the best chance of better higher paying employment.
Engineering, business, accounting, marketing, computer science, (etc) are the type that tend to lead to better job out comes than English, art, literature, etc. Obviously, you can be successful with those degrees as well, but why not go for the degrees with the best chance of success? Thats what I tell my kids. The expert on the radio the other day said the top 2 most sought after degrees by employers intending to hire college grads this year were Accounting and computer science.