When choosing a college major, what is more important?
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Froda asked:
…choosing a subject you’re really interested in but that may not promise a good career? Or choosing a subject that you may be less interested in, but one that will guarantee a good job?
Cory
…choosing a subject you’re really interested in but that may not promise a good career? Or choosing a subject that you may be less interested in, but one that will guarantee a good job?
Cory
March 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
You have to love what you do to do it well…choose what will make you happy
March 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
For that profession and uni and ideally people who are working in that if you can be more generalised go for jobspecialised major for jobspecialised.
The one that profession and you run the very high risk of dropping out if you go for jobspecialised major for jobspecialised major speak to some extent this depends on whether your facts before you can be more generalised go with.
The qualification and depth experience if it does go with the very high risk of dropping out if you go for that have just graduated so check your facts before you can be more.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
As the other poster implied, it’s not necessarily the case that if you were to major in, for example, English Literature, you’d have to somehow find a job in English Lit! You can major in English Lit and work in marketing, if you’d like, or HR, etc. Just make sure that you do some co-ops or internships in the field you think you might want to work in, while you’re studying. That will prepare you well. And you can certainly major in English Lit, and minor in, say, Marketing, for that practical edge. So major in what you like and what you think you’ll do well in. Don’t major in something you don’t really like, just because you think you’ll get a job in that field. In fact, that’d be a bad idea - if you don’t like the major all that much, why would you like the job?
The exception to this is if you think you may want to work in a field that requires you to major in something specific - nursing, engineering, accounting, architecture, etc. In those cases, you must pick that major in order to be qualfied to work in the field.
But if you’re not sure what you want to do, maybe business, maybe law, maybe medicine, maybe something else - then major in what you like. Do internships in the fields that interest you. Maybe minor in something “practical”. And you’ll be fine.