TITLE: Should I Change My Major?
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: April 09, 2012  2:53 PM
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Recruiting brochures for academic departments often list
the kinds of jobs that students get when they graduate.
Brochures for CS departments tend to list jobs such as
"computer programmer", "system administrator", "software
engineer", and "systems analyst".  More ambitious lists
include "CS professor" and "entrepreneur".  I've been
promoting entrepreneurship as a path for our CS grads
for a few years now.

This morning, I was browsing the tables at one of my
college's preview day sessions and came across my new
all-time favorite job title for graduates.  If you major
in philosophy at my university, it turns out that one of
the possible future job opportunities awaiting you is...

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
Bishop or Pope
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Learning to program
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-01.html#e2010-01-13T19_18_10.htm">
   gives you superhuman strength</A>,
but I'm not sure a CS major can give you a direct line
to God.  I say, "Go for it."
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