This week's econ talk, coincidentlly or not, is robert lorman talking about apprenticeships. One of the stranger things about so called professional training in the american university system is that you're taughtin theory of the activity, not the actual act of it. So in education, degree doesn't teach you how to be a teacher. It teaches you theories of education. Accounting professors want to teach about theories of accounting. They're not so concerned with your being a great accountant. And one of the advantages of that more practical side, if that's what you are looking for, is you can actually figure out if you care to like it or not.