# Any English majors on here? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 19, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-english-majors-on-here/191905 "2007-08-19T22:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![slowcamaro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowcamaro/32/5975_2.png) [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-english-majors-on-here/191905/8 "2007-08-20T12:01:12Z")
> [@NYIRP MOMS invitational 7/13](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyirp-moms-invitational-7-13/31938/9): > > In my experience, minors don’t really mean sh1t. Maybe someone else has had a different experience. I know a lot of people that got jobs that were not at all related to their degrees, so I’m not sure what the minor would do for you. > > To get a job as an electrical engineer, that had to be your major. Anything you can claim to know from your “minor” you could easily justify with experience, or 1 or 2 classes. > > It has also been my experience that there are only 3 classes of colleges, and I’ll break them down. > > Community college level, obvious > > Mid-range, to include most state schools > > High end/Ivy league (UPenn, CMU, etc) > > The high end degrees are pimptastic, and can get you jobs to match, providing you can interview better than a rock, and you got above a 3.0. > > The mid-grade stuff is a dime a dozen, 9/10 times, doesn’t really separate you from someone who went to CCAC. Sometimes it will. > > That has been my experience thus far in life (age 25), and I am happy to share. Take my advice with a grain of salt, I majored in business management. My best friend his major is in Mechanical Engineering then minor in international bussiness. he said the minor worth it --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-english-majors-on-here/191905)._