Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Shane Hummus" channel.

  1. Not exactly, it's good for any field, because of how people "work", specifically bosses. That's why everybody's buzz word in recent years have been soft skills. Bosses expect, that highly technical person, who can come up with the invention or improvement, will be able to sell it too, even to them... which result's in people, who have to learn the technical side of things, entering technical positions and people, who can actually come up with something, ending up on benefits and later without them. The problem is not the degrees, it's the employers. Even degrees listed here are solid ones with applications outside of their specific field. Problem is, everybody want's working experience these days, eg. employers have grown lazy. I've earned degree in accounting and financial management. I can't get a job. I get praised for my skill as an accountant by the interviewing manager, but can't get hired on the count of "people skills". And where are these people skills taught? Straight up marketing and to some degree in philosophy. Doing things on the side is worthless, I've gained sufficient knowledge base in computer networking, to build a very well designed network. But I don't have a degree in IT, so I'm shit out of luck. Doesn't matter, that my home resembles a data center. Ultimately, I feel that these days, double major is the only way out regardless of a degree. Obtain one major in either of these majors (or what ever floats your boat), and have complimentary or higher demand backup major.
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  2.  @tototrapsilo  Doesn't work for everyone and there are more logic "flavors" out there. For instance, you could say, that an RTS game is just a game, but I as an economist see logic system of rules, where perfectly balanced optimization of available resources, which results in destruction of enemy base. Sure, I could approach it mathematically and find certain optimum, but I could also describe rules of the game and find the same optimum without having to touch mathematics, plus, this way I can actually find exploits in the game logic it self. Another example would be crypto currencies, which have only one thing going for them, they are rare much like commodity money (think gold coins), however, since they don't have any alternative use (such as material for jeweler's art or in electronics production), they are closer to fiat money and thus by them selves worthless. There is no "set minimum" by alternative use for them and thus, I as an investor can lose more, than if I invested in any precious metal for instance, because there is a pre-set minimum, under which that metal won't go. And this is something someone, who only studied mathematics can't find, because calculations check out. Even we economists say, that there are two kinds of economists, mathematicians and philosophers. Mathematicians can calculate anything and everything, but can get lost in the concept, because they only work in the confines of numbers. philosophers may not tell you, how high GDP will be tomorrow, but they will find major structural problems with calculated numbers, eg. why, even though the numbers check out, something is a bad idea to invest in, or the other way around.
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  3. Laughs in medicine.
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  4. Which is how rare a combo exactly? Even if I were kind to you, and said, that each of these criteria had probability of existence 5%, that's 5% to the power of 3. That's 0,0125% of the job market!
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