MSN Careers is delusional

[rivendellrose]

From the lovely roommate: Check number 15 on this list.

Anthropology. Is not. Really a career. Not. Repeat. NOT. That's like saying "Classics" is a career. It's like saying "Psychology" is a career. It doesn't work that way!

...Although apparently, if it did, I'd be making a hell of a lot of money. *Sighs* I wonder what the hell job they were looking at when they pulled that number out of their butts? Because if I knew what the job actually was, I might be interested in making it my eventual goal.

Clarification: because it seems I wasn't paying enough attention to what I wrote. I don't mean to say that any of the subjects listed above aren't viable choices. "Job" would be a better word than "career" - the list in the link above is for pay-rates at various jobs, things like "composer" or "set or exhibit designer." What I mean to say is that Anthropology, Classics, Psychology and things like that are subjects that one finds careers within, and so saying that an anthropologist makes 66k is entirely ludicrous, because there's no one career that falls under the term "Anthropologist" like there is for "Set Designer" or, to fit the examples I gave, Archaeologist, Professor, Cultural Consultant, and Clinical Psychiatrist. A subject isn't a career - they're not the same thing, as far as I take the words. Sorry to have accidentally offended anyone with my messed up wording.

Why do I not have some kind of "anthropology" icon? I guess this'll do...

Comments

[tavern-wench1.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are postiions called "corporate anthropologists" that study corporate culture and make recommendations regarding building set up and conflict management between existing office cliques. Not my cup of tea, but it is there...

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

See, and that makes sense, and I figured they probably meant some variation like that. I think I'd probably lose my mind in that kind of job, but it makes sense that it'd be the end of anthro that'd pay well.

I stick by my assertion that they can't just call that "anthropology" and be done with it, though. As well as my assertion that MSN is the bottom of the barrel where the really lazy, brainless writers and researchers end up, because anybody with an ounce of sense would have been specific on something like that. :P

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

Maybe they meant to write "anthropologist" and got stoned before they wrote the article? :P

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. That'd be nice, but even there they'd still have problems... XD

[kakodaimon.livejournal.com]

That's like saying "Classics" is a career.
Uh oh.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I don't at all mean that it's not worth studying, only that a subject isn't a job. If I had managed to get a job through either of my majors, my job almost certainly wouldn't be called "anthropology" or even "anthropologist" or certainly "English literature." Same thing with Classics. There are lots of jobs within classics, same as with anthropology, but as far as I know classics (and anthropology) aren't a job, which was what the whole supposed subject of the list I linked to.

Sorry that wasn't clear. I like Classics very much, and a lot of it crosses pathss constantly with my favorite parts of archaeology.

[kakodaimon.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I know what you meant! "uh oh" was supposed to be like "uh oh, it's not a job? I'm screwed."

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Lol. Oh, thank goodness. I had this moment of complete panic where I looked at my entry and realized it could be seriously misunderstood...

Yeah, I'm right there with you on the "what, it's not a job?" thing. Every time I talk to my dad and grandpa about wanting to go back to school in archaeology, they get this glazed "oh god, she's never going to do anything sensible with her life" look in their eyes. :P