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Jeb Bush Gets Slapped Down Online For Saying ‘Psych Majors Will Work At Chick-Fil-A’

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Jeb Bush just seems to keep sinking in the polls with everything he does. His debate performance on Wednesday was abysmal, he has fired one of his campaign advisers, and now we have him opening his mouth in South Carolina and inserting his foot firmly into that same mouth.

At a South…

Jeb Bush Gets Slapped Down Online For Saying ‘Psych Majors Will Work At Chick-Fil-A’

Image Via Gage Skidmore for Flickr available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

Jeb Bush just seems to keep sinking in the polls with everything he does. His debate performance on Wednesday was abysmal, he has fired one of his campaign advisers, and now we have him opening his mouth in South Carolina and inserting his foot firmly into that same mouth.

At a South…

Jeb Bush Gets SCHOOLED For Saying ‘Psych Majors Will All Work At Chick-fil-A’ (IMAGES)

Jeb Bush is really starting to go off into the deep end now. Instead of perfecting his stroke, he’s now left drowning in his own verbiage. In a presidential campaign that doesn’t seem to be short of asinine statements coming from the right, Jeb somehow thought he’d keep the momentum going by making one of his most outrageous suggestions yet, by saying that Liberal Arts majors will all end up…

I’m not lying when I say that some of the fast food workers I’ve had the pleasure of working with are some of the smartest individuals I know. I’ve come to respect and admire so many of them. And they’re all super supportive! When one of my friends moved to Florida to pursue a degree in hospitality, we all celebrated with her, and wished her well. They couldn’t wait to get updates from me while I did my internship in Disney, where I worked with more extremely intelligent people in a quick service restaurant. Most of my friendships are from the people that I’ve met in those jobs, and I hate when people reduce us to uneducated high schoolers.

I also don’t understand where this idea comes from that psych is an easy degree to get. I had to agonize through a research methods cycle at my school that wipes a lot of people out of the major! I met a girl studying chemistry (which I can’t do for the life of me) who told me she could never do psych because she found it so difficult. It drives me nuts when people say that a degree in psych is the easy way out. And do they even realize how versatile it is? Marketing, human relations, training dolphins at sea world (or somewhere else, whatever floats your boat), working in the education system, becoming a rape crisis counselor, doing research for numerous organizations, and so many more. One of the girls in my internship class is at a therapeutic horse riding camp. So to tell us that our degrees are worthless is just ignorant.

#ThisPsychMajor is only the tip of the iceberg.

“Universities ought to have skin in the game. When a student shows up, they ought to say ‘Hey, that psych major deal, that philosophy major thing, that’s great, it’s important to have liberal arts … but realize, you’re going to be working [at] a Chick-fil-A” Jeb Bush. The trending #Thispsychmajor, inspired during the political debate, has ignited social media fire among liberal arts majors…