RF: Take up golf, join the Metropolitan OPera as a patron and the Whitney's junior patron committe and watch the deal flow increase. Otherwise, people can keep making all the breakeven models and doing the EVA analysis on their unemployment checks.
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If you look at the original post. The kid is studying engineering. Already a technical and analytical discipline. The incremental value added (business term :) ) will be minimal, plus the opportunity costs of not studying something that hones your other skills, like a sense of history, or language, or culture in a lib arts minor would not make it wise.
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I don't think the value added would be minimal in fact it would be pareto efficient :) Engineering and Business may be analytical but they are separate fields nonetheless.
I will agree with you on the rest regarding high opp. for not studying lib arts, however since the member didn't specify a choice, isn't it rather unwise to force it upon him? Hey, for all the stuff that I said about lib. arts, it does enrich on a personal level and I am glad to have gone through it. In fact discussions regarding any topic is something I like to engage in, thanks to my knowledge from diverse sources, but I don't plan on quitting my day job.
well said…I agree.
Just remember the dividing line between work and leisure 
I think all of us are right to a degree and have totally confused this young person. But that’s what you deserve when you ask stupid questions.
Going to the opera is leisure but it pays well
Sir, I am your student…with that statement I am at a loss for words
CHoR yaar...it's just the english classes...;)
Anyway, since you are in New York. We shoudl get together some time over a drink or something. You can beat Ahmadi to a pulp and I will sit back and recite the Nash equilibrium.
Hey English class or no English class, that is a mind blowing statement 
yeh sure, I’m in NYC during the week then I hibernate in CT. Oh this has the beginnings of the American Economic Association yearly melees
yara, my nick is Rajputfury for a reason
Have a good night and don’t let crazy John Nash bite you in your dreams
On the other hand, let us not suggest that I-banking or consulting are the next best things since sliced bread. Neither is. These days you can get laid off in either field faster than you can say value creation or P/E multiple.
Go get your kicks elsewhere, kids.
Kareem
Like engineering and comp sci are any better? code monkeys and engineers are just as concerned about job stability if not more.
welcome to the club everybody!!!
at a time like this we should combine our forces...instead of pulling each
others leg. :~)
normally the perception that having a non-engineering major is useless, is common among desi's which is totally wrong. there are other things out there more imp & interesting. its all in your mind.
no matter what degree you have; it depends on how you use it.
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Kareem
Like engineering and comp sci are any better? code monkeys and engineers are just as concerned about job stability if not more.
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I did not mean to imply that that is better. I agree with you. It is $hitty there too.
If I could do it all over again, I would be a kabooter catcher and bartend part time.
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Getting a place at some of the good schools in undergrad lib arts programs require more brains than getting a Nobel prize in Physical sciences. “Analytical and logical” engineers???, you are joking HMCQ?
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I guess I am missing the joke??? please explain.
Is it better to be a specialist or a generalist? Doing a variety of things helps people get a broader appreciation of things but not a lot of depth. Is there a clear cut line between the two? or is it dependent on what a person wishes to do and where they are in thier career?
HMCQ yaar: Can't you post some non rhetorical questions once in a while? WTF?
If a wouldchuck could chuck any kind of wood would a woodchuck chuck wood?
HMCQ, you have mentioned and I quote:
generally the engineers that used to end up in I banking was in the high growth economy when even liberal arts people (no offence) were consultants. this has fallen significantly, though the logical and analytical backgrounds of engineers are still great for adding them to do the roughwork in these industrys<<<
to me it appears that you were implying that engineers have somewhat better analytical and logical background compared to liberal arts people. I think that’s the funnies joke I have heard in a long time. When you say logical, does it have anything to do with syllogism as in theory of knowledge or critical study? Engineers are the least ‘logical’ people in my opinion.
CH - if a woodchuck chucks only wood, then why imply that it may also be interested in plastic with wood paint or polish? You had implied that having a Business minor is useless and I was wondering why, since I happen to have such a mix.
NYA - are you saying engineers are not thaught to follow a structured approach? I was assuming the development of all sorts of models are the basis of that? These of course as you realize are gross generalizations and were not ment to be anything other then that. Perhaps you and I were thinking of logical as different terms.
SImple reason HMCQ is that no on e really give a rat's ass when hiring you what your minor is. People should take that opportunity to broaden their horizons. Which can yield to better skills re: congnitive reasoning (philosophy), ability to communicate (english) that better prepare you for the outside world.
*But that's what you deserve when you ask stupid questions.
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right..stupid q deserves a stupid ans.
If I have a business minor and philosphy and am interviewing for an investment Banking job, what counts and why? I would say I have seen plenty of instances where my engineering background has been used in business settings and vice versa.