Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Is Your Education Useless?
Men With Pens: "Many freelancers have university degrees. Many freelancers don’t have to send their resumes to people anymore, so those degrees don’t see a lot of action, but they’re there, collecting dust on our walls."
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For some people, going straight into the work field in theater is the right thing for them. However, I agree with this article, it's important to be educated, a degree matters. The school environment is a place of discovery and safety. In college you still have a sort of safety net, you have the ability to change what you want to do, to figure out who you are, what you like, and you can test out new ideas and hone your skills. One of the most important things, as is continually stressed to us at Carnegie Mellon, is that the school environment is a place to find the people that you will work with for the rest of your life. School is a place to make connections, and become connected to a large network of alumni.
Education is always useful, whether directly for your day-to-day work or as a general background and foundation, a situation always seems to pop up where you can pull the answer out of some dusty recess, and as that happens often enough the dust starts getting cleared away. Speaking as someone who is coming back into theater after several years using my previous education as a computer programmer and physics teacher I'm still using all of those skills despite being in a completely different field.
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