On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:09:57 +0000, Robert M. Gary wrote:

Not everyone is that smart. I guess we need to keep jobs around for
those with less intellect.

Which task needs someone "that smart"? Though it was decades ago, that
was pretty much what my Father did. Admittedly, outsourcing wasn't the
issue about which he was worried; I presume (I've never thought to ask)
that he simply wanted to get above the ceiling for only-engineers.

Though he never mentioned his motivation for the MBA to me, he did
mention that the MBA degree was *far* easier than the engineering
degree. We discussed it a lot, actually, while I was taking a mix of
business and engineering classes at my undergrad (and I was whining about
issues such as how the finance classes *avoided* calculus, even when it
was a natural fit for the problem under discussion).

Before going too far along a choice path for Jay's son, I'd revisit his
lack of love for math. If it's something at which he's good, but he
actively dislikes it, there's a decent chance that this is because he's
been/being exposed to math badly in school. This could mean a lot of
different things, from a variation of the Barbi "math is hard" to
teachers that unawaredly teach that the subject is uninteresting or "too
hard to be worth the effort".

I studied and work in computer software, but there was a period of time
during my undergrad when I gave serious though to finding something
else. My classes were borderline painful in their inanity. I then took
some time off, during which the only marketable skill I had was
software. And it became fun again. That showed that it wasn't the area
of interest but only the classes.

Knowing that, I could deal with the classes when I returned.

- Andrew