I don't want to be rude but I do always wonder what the point of taking arts degrees is in this day and age. If you're passionate about some art you can still follow and practice it along with your STEM studies, it's not like most pro/successful artists were formally trained from teenage. Why set back your chances of making decent money?

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have a genuine passion for literature and studying it, learned a great deal about critical thinking and analysis. the stem subjects bore me to tears and furthermore i have no talent for them. if i lived my life thinking solely about maximising my earnings then i'd be very depressed.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You chances of being miserable out of poverty would be way more though, if you're not already well-endowed. You may not want so much to maximise your earnings, but you definitely don't want to get stuck in a poverty cycle because of having an expensive non-marketable degree.

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

I should add at this point I'm English. Student loans work a lot differently here, they're written off completely if you've not paid them back after a certain age. You also don't start paying them until you begin earning a certain amount.