133 - "Worthless" Book Review

Along with the book Bachelor Pad Economics Aaron Clarey sent me his book Worthless, The Young Person's Indispensable Guide To Choosing the Right Major. And I wasn't going to review it or talk about it originally but over the course of going to the men's rights conference I met someone that should have read this book. She was just in the process of finishing her degree in poetry. And during the winter she's involved in dog sled racing. How she's going to make a living and possibly pay back the debts she owes to get a masters in poetry I'll never know? But after she said these things to me all I could think about was Aaron Clarey's book Worthless. And I too am guilty of taking a college or university major that didn't really pan out the way I expected at first. Originally I was going to take photography but my parents convinced me to take "New Media" instead. I thought it was going to be about computer animation, video, film, photography, web design, design, creative writing and much more. And I was right because the university I went to was a polytechnic university at that time. But there was a lot of time wasted on feminist theory, gender studies and art installations. My degree was a combination of theory and application broken up roughly fifty percent of the time for each. And I learned many skills that I'm still applying today. But the most important thing I learned about my degree was the ability to learn on my own without professors. And I attribute my success in life to that. I was taught to problem solve on my own. But getting back to Aaron Clarey's book, Worthless is a short read less then 200 pages with only about 150 words per page. So it can be read at one or two sittings. Aaron wants people to get a degree or skill in something vital in the economy and leave emotions out of making education decisions. Early in the book he makes a list of things that people usually purchase in life such as gasoline, cell phone bills, food, computer, mp3 players etc and then side by side he puts degrees that have no relation to the everyday things that most ordinary people buy or even want to buy. Thing like political science, English, Women's studies amount other things. He suggests that people go into things that are real and tangible and produce consistent income.

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