branding. you can get a liberal arts education for a fraction of the cost by traveling the world for the same amount of time. but that's unfortunately not apparently worth much to anyone. but the liberal arts education brand and rhetoric are as strong as ever.
my take, most people are machines in terms of work. their employers could care less who they are as people as long as they do the work, take orders, and don't create unnecessary shit. maybe just maybe you might be able to wiggle your way into management if you have a liberal arts education, but then you need to spend just as much time getting good at writing code, and doing it constantly 9-5.
better a computer science degree and an mba if that's what your goal is... and spend two years before that backpacking to round yourself out.
my take, most people are machines in terms of work. their employers could care less who they are as people as long as they do the work, take orders, and don't create unnecessary shit. maybe just maybe you might be able to wiggle your way into management if you have a liberal arts education, but then you need to spend just as much time getting good at writing code, and doing it constantly 9-5.
better a computer science degree and an mba if that's what your goal is... and spend two years before that backpacking to round yourself out.