I have no real-life skills in Political Science

The following are chat excerpts with a friend who’s in computing. She’s been doing really awesome stuff, really:

I just love seeing my design work out there and watching how people react to it
I did a few UI designs before but they were not for online stuff
2 years ago LG released a black chocolate handphone
I designed the interface for the screen which people could interact with during the launch
where the floor was all black, when a person got near it the black chocolate phone arrows will show up
and the screen right in front would show the phone order screen hahaha
that was really really fun stuff

then there was the Listerine new Orange flavour campaign. Or was it lemon? bleah can’t remember the flavour.
but for that, we took a truck and redesigned it to look like a lemonade / juice drink stall.
but instead, people would approach it and get to try their new mouthwash equipped with basin too!
interaction design is really fun, you always have to think of what to do to get the users to react in a certain way

Political Science students have no skills at all. Literally. What can we do besides academia and journalism? What have we been doing for 3-4 years? Reading and writing. Research. If we don’t make it into a job or career where there is some hint of national or international politics involved, then that three to four years we spent in university is basically report-writing practice at some bloody office building.

Totally skip out on student organizations? Then you’ve got no organizational or teamwork skills. Never worked with anyone, never led anyone, never done anything besides write essays. Student organizations in NUS suck anyway, they’ve never institutionalised training of technical skills anyway.

NUS people hate team presentations. single-person presentations too. I have seen countless presentations in which the powerpoints totally suck, there are in excess of 150 words on that slide. And there are ten slides, for a totally of a short essay.

Is PS a waste of time? Maybe. We learn a whole bunch of stuff about democracy, other countries, international movements, ethnicity, rhetoric, public administration, etc. It is totally interesting, and a will never come into use in real life unless you REALLY REALLY make it useful (like go into politics, journalism or academia) or the job scope demands part of it (think tank researcher, some large companies have government affairs department). We get to meet people (a certain kind of people), but you can do that in other courses of study anyway. We might have “critical thinking skills” but I’m sure Eng Lit students have them too.

I’m not sure if PS gives me an edge at nearly anything. What do you think?