5-7 Business Days before it's ready.
So to hell with it. I'm done waiting for it to be ready and am announcing the book today!
The cover more or less explains everything. "Worthless" is the one book that every teenager and 20 something should have AND READ. It outlines the basics of economics as to why some degrees are more valuable than other, goes through all the major "majors," highlighting which ones are worthwhile and which ones are worthless, and provides the much-needed guidance that "guidance counselors" spectacularly fail to provide young adults when it comes time to choosing a major.
Though written for younger people in mind (it's only 175 pages, and a small book at that), adults may find it interesting too in that I expose and eviscerate "Big Education." Some interesting data and statistics, and of course, what book by the Captain would be complete without some charty-goodness.
I WROTE IT IN UNDER 3 WEEKS. I did this so it could be available as a Christmas gift for the son, daughter, nephew, niece or special young some one in your life that you care about and desperately want them to avoid making a huge mistake by choosing a worthless major.
Also, since it was written in under 3 weeks, YES THERE ARE BOUND TO BE SOME TYPOS IN THERE.
Not real ones like the misspelling of words or horrible grammar, but anal retentive ones that you guys like to point out. Semi-colons, missing/extra comma's, etc. When you buy it and read it, if you see any real typos that escaped by crack team of editors, please let me know and I shall change them.
As mentioned before, it won't be available for 5-7 business days, but when it is, I will provide the link. Also, any of you kind enough and willing to provide the Captain a little exposure on your blogs would be greatly appreciated.
There is more to say, because I believe the book is quite revolutionary, but I will wait for the official release.
Thank you all.
Cpt.
Congrats Cap! I will pick it up. (Even tho' I'm thirty, never went to university and have always hated the idea of college life with a passion.)
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I'll put in a word for this, definitely. I've got my own "near miss" (or maybe it was a soft train wreck?) worthless degree story to tell, and also how I once warned my students away from the path I took.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that could be a marketing gig. Have people write in their "worthless degree story" to warn all the kiddies out there. It's too late for the OWS protestors, but not the current crop.
ReplyDeleteJaericho, you'll like the book. I vindicate your decision, especially in the last chapter.
Come at me
ReplyDeleteimma' post dis shit errwhere
off-topic:
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me you'll like this video, Captain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJ7lRur43o
on-topic:
I think the best college is no college. Or at least in my country, the Czech republic. I'm in college now and my younger friends who are in high school sometimes ask older people like me what we suggest to study.
I always tell them that first of all, they should decide what they want to do in live. It's probably not to become a soulless corporate slave, working 9-5 like a robot. I explain that careers don't matter. That the ratrace doesn't matter and never did.
I tell them that the best way to make money is to sell your ideas, not your time. Make one-time investments and let the money flow in. A book. A blog. A business. A stock portfolio. An iPhone app you develop. Be it royalties, advertisement income, or dividends, these incomes don't need you to keep working to continue flowing in, unlike a job. Seek niches, look for opportunities.
If you're not able to do that (and not many people have the talent to be an enterpreneur), you'll have to get a job. But having a job is a very insecure means of income, because you can get fired anytime, so you should at least find a job that you know is high in demand a will continue to be so for some time. Something you're better in than most other people, so you can exploit and develop this advantage.
Software developer/programmer? Best choice, if you have what it takes. PHP, C++, Java, whatever, you won't get lost in life. And the best thing about this? You don't need one single day of college to get this job. As long as you can really write code, employers don't give a shit.
Also, you can be self-employed. It's not a passive income like when you just own a business, you still have to sell your time, but at least you decide on how many hours a week you put into it and noone gives a shit about your degree. For example, you can do graphic design, accounting, investment/financial consulting etc.
Other promising career choices—if you want to have a job—would be something like electrical engineer or mechanical engineer. Problem is, for engineering jobs, you usually need to have a degree. Probably master's.
But if for some reason you're not ready not to go to college, or you just don't have the talent to earn passive income or be a programmer or do any of those things you can do as a self-employed, then I suggest engineering major. Or CS major, but that's just redundant.
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I don't know if you've ever been in this situation, dear reader, but when you explain to an 18 y.o. hipster girl who's interested in psychology and french films that she should either start her own business instead of going to college or in the worst case scenartio go for a CS major, the look on her face is *absolutely* priceless.
And by the way, why I am in college, you ask? Because my parents lied to me. My teachers lied to me. The whole society lied to me. Because only after three years of college I found out from Cpt. Capitalism and Roissy and Robert Kiyosaki and other people what I should have found out from my parents when I was 12.
A good idea. One will be going to my step grandson, the one with the anal retentive PC father.
ReplyDelete"Privatizing Governments" isn't bad either, but it isn't going to happen easily.
Yes, Aaron, we anal retentives really get off on nitpicking you, while drinking down our rum and coke!
Heh, that Privatizing Governments is so crazy it would work. Sadly it's just a pipe dream.
ReplyDeleteAs a current college student, I'll give it a read for sure. What's the going price?
ReplyDeleteShall be $17.95 for the book, and roughly $4 for Kindle, though I'm not sure yet on that pricing.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to give it a browse if just to see what you say about the program I so wanted to do but got a math degree (after a decade in the military) instead.
ReplyDeletewhy do you have an obsession with useless degree? it's a common theme around here. Do you secretly feel that you should have taken a different major?
ReplyDeleteand for the record the OWS crowd are not all left wing hippies, those are just a few extreme ones. They interviewed many down there many are engineer IT people, healthcare even cops
I come from a socialist country originally and am no socialist at all but OWS is more than a bunch of hippies