¶ … Working Affect Your Experience at Temple University, Based on Your Major? The state of employment in the United States and even the rest of the world is still dire considering the ravages of the global financial crisis is taking its toll still. Thus, the disparity in jobs and the kinds of employment there are as well as job satisfaction thereto is more apparent now than ever. There are several ways of looking at the matter especially via the differences there are of those that have jobs and are unemployed. Of particular interest in this research is the student population that are considered employed whilst studying and those that are purely pursuing their studies without part-time or full-time work whatsoever. Hence, the research paper will endeavor to answer the research question: "Is there a difference, in terms of, between art students with job, art students without job and business student with job, business student without job?" The choice of art students and business students is done since these are two varied fields where the former is in pursuit of artistic and creative endeavors. The latter is a field of studies aimed at managing organizations and mostly these organizations are in the pursuit of profit and assurance of business continuity and resilience.

The various literature and research materials that will be used in the study will provide the insights and validation to the various answers to the research question. Specifically, Pierre-Michel Menger's Artistic Labor Markets and Careers will provide the lion's share of information in responding the difference between art...

Stephen R. Porter and Paul D. Umbach's College Major Choice: An Analysis of Person-Fit Environment will show how critical the environment is in contributing to the academic success of students. The rest of the literature will serve to solidify the answers being sought to validate the research question presented.
Literature Review

Bers, T.H. (1988, October). Student major choices and community college persistence. Research in Higher Education, 29(2): 161-173.

Getting into college and staying in are two different things. There are students who successfully gain admission to a college of choice but eventually do not make the mark and drop from the rolls of the school. In Trudy H. Ber's article (1988), the author utilized Simpson's (1987) model for tracking student persistence within major at the institution. She did a study of a population of students during a defined period and looked into the persistence of the student population in given majors. Analysis was done on the results utilizing various benchmarks as well as software applications.

McKendall, M.A. & Lindquist, S.C. (1997, June). True colors: The response of business schools to declining enrollments. Journal of Business Ethics, 16(8): 867-872.

McKendall and Lindquist conducted a study in the late 1990s aimed at determining if the validity business schools who advertise themselves as foundations of business ethics and principles are true or not. This is done during the time when enrollment at several business schools are declining and the authors also seek…