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Velocirooster
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What should i major in newschoolers? My advisor is a dickhead so i trust your opinions more.  Which majors arent completely useless because ive heard from so many people that they wished they had majored in something other than what they chose
Apr 11 2012 9:11AM
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Mr.Turtle
Posts: 3690 - Karma: 96
women studies or art history
Apr 11 2012 9:12AM
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daskis
Posts: 1828 - Karma: 356
Engineering, duh.
Apr 11 2012 9:15AM
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Amadeus.
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engineering is good, or like a business degree if your looking to make money.
Apr 11 2012 9:17AM
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daskis
Posts: 1828 - Karma: 356
Okay well tell me why the business school is ranked higher than the college of engineering at my school, yet starting salary for graduating engineers from here is nearly double?
Apr 11 2012 9:21AM
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-Alpha2-
Posts: 355 - Karma: 96
sorcery
Apr 11 2012 9:21AM
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Velocirooster
Posts: 336 - Karma: 38
I got denied from the department head when i tried to apply.
Apr 11 2012 9:26AM
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Amadeus.
Posts: 3050 - Karma: 382
are you attempting to argue with me? I'm confused.
Apr 11 2012 10:00AM
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The_Big_Tuna
Posts: 799 - Karma: 75
Engineering!
Apr 11 2012 10:09AM
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gregorio
Posts: 2372 - Karma: 151
She thinks you said engineers don't make money but business majors do.
Apr 11 2012 10:09AM
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Amadeus.
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yeah i think so too, I didn't mean one made more money then the other, my sentence might of came out wrong.
Apr 11 2012 10:11AM
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eldridge
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well you gotta ask yourself, what is more important making a lot of money, or doing something you love and enjoy, you might find that you can do both. I love history and helping and teaching people, so my plan as a multidisciplinary history major is to eventually get my PhD and be a professor, where I will make enough to live comfortably and be truly satisfied with waking up every morning to a career i thoroughly enjoy.
Apr 11 2012 10:12AM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
Shit like this amazes me. You're not sure what you want to do with your life, so you ask a skiing website what THEY think you should do with your life? That is pitiful on so many levels. Why don't you take a break from the internet for ten minutes and figure out what exactly it is YOU want to do with your education.


Oh, and my suggestion is art school. Join the rest of the no-talent idiots who don't know what they want to do with their lives.
Apr 11 2012 10:16AM
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daskis
Posts: 1828 - Karma: 356
Haha okay no worries, I wasn't arguing with you, I just thought you meant business majors make more money than engineers
Apr 11 2012 10:17AM
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Blurst
Posts: 13577 - Karma: 10,169
If you dont know and you are not truly passionate about something than dont go. Take the year off and work and ski and shit but dont go throw away your money at school just because it is expected.
Apr 11 2012 10:28AM
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Dunnah
Posts: 1215 - Karma: 277
Maybe he's just looking for suggestions and outside opinions
Apr 11 2012 10:32AM
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Amadeus.
Posts: 3050 - Karma: 382
haha its all good.
Apr 11 2012 10:33AM
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easiestEC
Posts: 2471 - Karma: 489
do what you love to do and try and make a career out of that. dont just major in something because you think you'll have job security after college. you want to be able to enjoy what you do and not just
Apr 11 2012 10:35AM
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easiestEC
Posts: 2471 - Karma: 489
god damn mobile. anyways, not just put your nose to the grindstone day in and day out
Apr 11 2012 10:36AM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
I gave him a suggestion.
Apr 11 2012 10:37AM
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corona
Posts: 12799 - Karma: 32,775
if you like $$ then geology and go work for a big oil or mining company. rake in the dough.
Apr 11 2012 11:01AM
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lands11
Posts: 1818 - Karma: 1,677
Environmental sciences is what I'm doing and I can honestly say I love it. It also is a growing field so more jobs are popping up.
Apr 11 2012 11:19AM
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Nurgle
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I guess every cinematographer, fashion designer, car designer, steve jobs, photographer, and painter are idiots huh? I know plenty of art majors who have far more knowledge that some simpleton business major whose knowledge extends to that of only specific business.


to OP, it all depends on what kind of person you are. Like personally, I want to serve people, so I was majoring in History, in order to become a teacher. I'm dropping out this semster however to pursue my EMT certification, along with Auto Mechanic. Better chance at a job, and I find manual labor to be far more satisfying.

Remember that Traditional College isnt for everyone, only around 30% goto a 4 year school. And its not like you dont make money blue collar, elevator techs make around 70k a year, and you can make around that being a Pipefitter, steamfitter, or something else. It all depends on how hard you want to work, and what satisfy you.
Apr 11 2012 12:42PM
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.AR6rider.
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For every one of those people you mentioned who are/were successful, there are hundreds who are not.
Apr 11 2012 12:44PM
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smooticus
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Geez man, who shit in your omelet this morning.

Im heavily biased, but if you dont mind physics and math check out engineering. Any engineering degree is a solid choice and there are many different disciplines so you can find something in the general feild that interests you.
Apr 11 2012 12:45PM
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Nurgle
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That is very true, but also applies to hundreds of thousands of business majors. Look at the rates of college graduates moving back into their parents houses, or getting jobs such as managing a wal-mart. Nothing is guranteed, it ALL depends on how hard you work, the things you do, and networking.
Apr 11 2012 12:47PM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
I shit in my own omelettes because I like the way it tastes.
Apr 11 2012 12:48PM
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Mr.Turtle
Posts: 3690 - Karma: 96
look at the employment rates of accounting, math, or engineering majors
they all pay fairly well and you will get a job as long as your not a fuckup
getting an art degree is the stupidest financial decision possible
Apr 11 2012 12:52PM
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Nurgle
Posts: 1249 - Karma: 15
I'm about 99% sure that nobody goes into an arts degree in order to make vast amounts of money.

Like personally, I could care less about money, I live on the bare minimum, I just enjoy people in general, and helping others. So why go into a major just to make tons of money, when I'm happy just helping others, and making a third of a business major.

Apr 11 2012 12:54PM
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HIT
Posts: 3524 - Karma: 4,996
I'm personally going to partake in a Bachelor of Science.
-Broad spectrum of post-education work, and people with the degree are in high demand.
Plus in high-school, the only classes that interested me were the sciences. (This is how you should look at it; High-school was the stepping stone, and the reason they had so many classes available, and made you take them, was to give you an understanding of what each certain branch of education was about, so that when you went to post-secondary, you had a general idea of what interests you.)
People deciding to go to post-secondary should go to learn about something that interests them. If it's not interesting to you, GOOD LUCK putting in your best effort, and getting the highest grade you can. There's no determination with interest, so don't fuck yourselves over, just because of the money.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

I also quite enjoy helping people, and I enjoy seeing how badly people have fucked themselves up in daily life, so my end-goal is to be a Trauma Surgeon, and work in the ER.

Goals make life seem less hard. When there's an end-result in the distance, having something to strive for helps exponentially with getting through the crap along the way.
Apr 11 2012 1:07PM
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