A few months ago I started a thread over at SitePoint asking opinions on what majors people felt were the most helpful in graphic design and web development careers. I got well over one hundred responses with suggestions ranging from general arts to business to skipping college all together. I heavily thought upon all of this and after much consideration have decided to go with none of these suggestions.

Instead, I have decided to major in Greek. That, I believe, is where the real money lies.

Greek? Are you crazy?

Not at all. Think about it: What is one of today’s biggest buzzwords? Beta. What language is this word? Why, Greek, of course.

Developers today are absolutely terrified of launching an actual full release. That is why we’ve invented alpha and beta releases–this way there is always an emergency excuse ready. Lately, however, things have been taken even further. With the recent redesign of Flickr, Gamma was introduced.

So?

Pretty soon Greek majors are going to be needed just to pronounce these new versions, and having a professional Greek-speaking guy on every development team will be a must.

With this 24-letter alphabet at our disposal, startups will no longer have to be responsible for bugs in the first 24 versions! As you can tell, we are very excited about this. Soon conversations with customer support will be going something like the following:

Complaining Customer: Your product is a piece of @!#%!!! I’ve already found approximately 137.8 bugs in it.
Support: What did you expect? This is only the Lambda release after all.
Complaining Customer: What the hell is “Lambda”?

But that’s not all. No, things will get even better than this:

Support: “Lambda” is the 11th letter in the Greek alphabet, marking our 11th release. In other words, we haven’t launched an official, full product yet. Would you like to talk to our in-house Greek Expert?
Complaining Customer: BS.
Support: Yes, I believe he got his degree last year.

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