Useless Degrees....

At some point in time I had missed this Yahoo article (about useless college degrees that you may want to avoid if your looking for a college degree) and didn't hear of it until we were attending Utah's Young Farmer and Rancher Conference at the end of January.  Well, maybe it was good that I missed, maybe for helath reason, i.e. high blood pressure, anuerism, etc., it was something that I shouldn't read.  But, enough kidding around, it was pretty offensive to me, though I know they did not intend to be, but I really struggle with people who are ungrateful and who have no idea where there food comes from or how and so they dismiss it so lightly because, hey, who needs these degrees when we have plenty of food at the grocery store?  While the article does lean towards the degrees being useless because demand is low, maybe we should be taking Bill Gates advice and creating the demand by increasing funding for research in Agriculture.  As the Agriculture Industry is the largest employer in the nation I find it a poorly written article that describes all of these fields as being a useless degree to obtain.  But, it's time for me to lower my blood pressure while you read and form your own opinion....

So check out the article:

http://education.yahoo.net/articles/most_useless_degrees.htm
And then tell me how you feel about it.

On the other hand, I would like to very loudly applaud Bill Gates for his recent remarks in one of his annual letters, calling for more money for agricultural research.  He said, "Given the central role that food plays in human welfare and national stability, it is shocking – not to mention short-sighted and potentially dangerous – how little money is spent on agricultural research."  Now if we were going to rely on someone's opinion (meaning the general public at large, relying on an opinion of oh, say a moviestar, or maybe a billionaire entreprenuer and computer genius) wouldn't you lean a little closer to Bill's than maybe Brittney Spears? 

So, thank you Bill Gates!

Here is a link to an article about his comments:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/gates-calls-for-more-mone_0_n_1229216.html