[lbo-talk] the view from capital

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Sep 12 11:01:43 PDT 2006


Yes, thank you. During my retirement, I'm planning to become an expert on intellectuals and the intelligentia....degrees, education, etc.

I'm starting to save this stuff. Keep em coming!

Joanna

Andy F wrote:


> On 9/11/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Believe me, you're better equipped than someone burdened by a liberal
>> arts
>> background. It's been said that the liberal arts teach you how to enjoy
>> life without the high-paying job they prevent you from getting. But
>> I don't
>> think they're even successful at that anymore. Having spent many
>> frustrating years as a ghostwriter trying to give the crass, inchoate
>> effusions of corporate technocrats a veneer of logic and erudition, I am
>> sorry I didn't pay more attention in math class as a youth and become a
>> civil engineer.
>
>
> I came close to abandoning a physics degree for German due to a
> newfound love of linguistics and trouble with the physics. I
> eventually got fed up with the bread and butter of translating, at
> least Czech to English -- contracts and business plans. No doubt
> transitioning through technology (no stupidity and self loathing in
> working in pharma and insurance, no sir!) eventually back to science
> was much easier with a physics degree than it would have been with a
> German degree. Linguistics and languages work much better as a hobby.
>
> Joanna will like this: Henry Stommel, a huge figure in physical
> oceanography and mentor to some current leaders in the field, was
> never accepted into a PhD program, supposedly because he had written a
> popular treatment of his subject.
>
>



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