College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class

jfruh writes: With a lot of debate over the value of a college education, here's a data point students can use: at one Texas college, students who took an elective COBOL class earned on average $10,000 more a year upon graduation than classmates who hadn't. COBOL, dropped from many curricula years ago as an outdated language, is tenaciously holding on in the industry, as many universities are belatedly starting to realize.

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Re:You can't earn a lot while working for others

[TrollstonButterbeans]

Actually, I am *free* to try to oppress you or murder you. I just would have to accept the consequences, assuming such things were even a good use of my time which I doubt ;-) And I'm not sure how oppress anyone either, so that freedom is wasted on me.

Which, while your line of reasoning is interesting, I'm not sure how it relates to umghhh stating he believes in a "utopia" where no one hires anyone and everyone works for themselves as his idea of freedom.

umghhh's point is an oxymoron anyway.

If you are self-employed, you are working for someone just the same as being an employee. It is just the arrangement that is different. So it isn't even a dogma about philosophy, he wants to argue about what kind of arrangements are ok.

I think your talents in philosophical debate would better be used trying to clear the cobwebs from umghhh's weird contradictory logic.