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> If you major in 'business' or 'communications' then you are majoring in 'fucking around'. There aren't too many jobs that I know of are looking for this.

Businesses aren't looking for finance guys, salesmen, and accountants? My technology company has quite a few, including me. I guess I should tell them they're wasting millions of dollars a year.

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but of course any intelligent person can do those jobs without a "business" degree.

Go become an accountant without an accounting degree and tell me how that works out.

this happens all the time in the UK. big accounting firms and F100 companies recruit people in unrelated degrees all the time.

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