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Thinking of following up my #marketzing degree with a #postLADuate m9.

ETA: Does anyone know if you can get a degree in lifting these days? If not, that'd be a Dece policy for sure if education was one our responsibilities.

I'm currently doing an MLift in French Lifterature if that helps bro #benchlifteraturemorelike

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Plus a History degree is very useful if you want to go to #france

History and French is a dece undergrad degree. #acareemia #MASSters

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So you don't actually know what you want to do, and are getting a degree so that you can say I have a degree? Sound. As far as being able to get a job goes, you'll be stuck behind people who studied a course relevant to the degree.

ETA: As the good Serge alludes to above, you're destined for Frankie and Bennys.

Why are you so angry about this?

FWIW, I already have a degree and am now doing a Masters. I'm going to follow that with a PhD and then plan to stay in academia.

You're going to notice that my post up to this point has been a good bit more civil than yours. Please don't allow that to leave you under the impression that I see you as anything other than a boorish, university of life attending dullard.

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Can I ask what career you expect to get out of doing history?

Two of my mates went to do history at St. Andrews. One changed after first year to do Accounting & Business Admin or somesuch, and she's now a very well paid Auditor for Delloites in America. The other stuck to history, and is in a fairly low paid events coordination job, 7 years after graduating. Fortunately for her, her husband is an architect.

I have another mate who did Politics & Philosophy. He now, also after 7 years, finally has a reasonable (yet fairly low paid job) for Creative Scotland.

I just never got the concept of doing degrees like these.

The research skills you get from a history degree stand you in good stead for any research-based job, and anything that involves bringing together a lot of resarch/data to come to come up with a coherently written and well argued report. This can apply to quite a wide range of sectors. With degrees like history, politics etc for most people it'll be about developing transferable skills and being able to demonstrate to employers that you'll be able to put them to good use in work situations. Comparatively few people will either remain in academia or get a job in a sector in which history as an academic discipline will be directly relevant, but it certainly increases your employability. Afterwards, how well you do with your career will depend on being able to demonstrate once in actual employment that you've actually gained genuine skills which you're able to put to good use.

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More upset than Dreyfus, though? Surely not.

J'accuse Jimmy of being upset.

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Or David Hume after being sacked for being an atheist.

Is that a callback to Kickback in 2010 or so? I think it might be.

Really don't think he's as upset as the French authorities were when ma boi Voltaire published Candide. #satire #tolerance #leibnitzdiss #someboy

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History

You seem even more upset than Edmund Burke after he read Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Jimmy. #history #naturalrights #youseemupset

[whisky lovers]

Worked in a whisky shop over the summer and now into it in a pretty big way. A couple I tried through work and really enjoyed were Tullibardine 228 burgundy cask and Tomatin's Cu Bocan expression. Also a big fan of Edradour and thoroughly enjoy a Laphroaig from time to time. Worst I've tried has been anything by Deanston, which is just very bland.

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Did my undergrad at Stirling and loved every minute of it, currently doing a Masters at St Andrews and like it well enough but would have to admit that it's every bit as wanky as it's made out to be. I did French and History at Stirling and can definitely recommend the History department.

[The get fit, stay fit thread]

Currently getting back into proper training after breaking my arm quite badly in May through Muay Thai. Lifts moving back up and have started MMA (would've rather kept up with Thai but recently moved to St Andrews and it isn't possible here).

One step back and all that. Some good advice on here and some proper broscience.