Is it a waste of time to learn things like marketing, economics,...

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Leila

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...communications... in school? Those classes are all theoretical and they basically teach you things that are common sense and that you just never really think about. As interesting as they are, sometimes I think they are useless. Reading my econ and marketing books sometimes I read something really interesting but these things are simplified and theoretical and they never happen in the real world. My friend is taking a course in communications and she is learning that when someone says "hello", they are greeting them. She is learning about "feedforward" and "feedback" in a conversation. These things are all interesting but sometimes I wonder why I am paying tuition just so I can "learn" these things.
 
Well, it's good to have some kind of foundation. But I do agree that most of the school carriculums are just simply waste of time. Real world business moves at the crazy speed. I wish there is a quick start course that people can take without having to go through all those hells in order to sell an apple. I am trying to upstart a business, but there are lot of little things that you will never get from the school, like where to apply for a biz license, what kind of license, paying taxes, what to do with the access of inventory, things like that you just can't find from the text books.....
 
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