What major did you choose?

aurovon

In college? I am debating on what I want to pick, I am already 20 and I have no idea. The main thing I have passion for is learning about different cultures and traveling of course. International Business sounds exciting, but I don't know its such a broad topic. So, what major did you chose? And does it reflect what you are doing today career wise? Are you happy with it?

PS - Anybody do international business?

kaushiks

Its all the same shit. If you are not sure, choose what pays best. You have to be either a clerk or a prostitute. Everything boils down to that. Spending time with your alumni who have graduated long before helps.

mumblyjoe22

If you simply "choose what pays best" as the above poster said, you'll end up with a wage-slave mentality whether you make 4k, 40k or 400k a year.

cookie

You should pick something that you find interesting and enjoy. You have to remember you spend most of your life in work , so you have to be happy doing whatever you do.

But then again of it's money that drives you and is the only thing that will make you happy then pick something that will lead to a successful and money making career?

It's such a personal thing and so advice is hard to give, sometimes I wish I had done art rather than science....still happy in my job now though (well at least i get 6 weeks holiday to go travelling )

PS degree was oceanography with chemistry and now an ecotoxicologist (allegedly )

Fresa81

God I hope I don't sound preachy, but here goes .... honestly, at 20, you are way too young to be worrying about what you will be doing in 10 years' time!

It must be a US thing, this choosing of majors, but the best advice that I can give you is to pick a subject that you are interested in, even if its not the one that will make you the most moolah in the future - isn't it true that our generation (ie not the baby boomers etc) will change careers about 5 times in our lifetime, often in completely diverse fields!?

So what you are studying now probably won't even be what you are working on in 3 years!!!

There's no point sitting in a macroeconomics class just to be able to say at an interview in a few years, 'oh yes I am well-versed in the macro-relational-economic theory of post-capitalism ...' blah blah I don't even know what all that stuff means! Plus, you'll get BETTER grades in a class that you LIKE! Makes sense, no?

F.

P.S Me <-- double degree in law/arts, majored in international law/political science/italian ... and I loved my international units!!! So there

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edwardseco

I agrre strongly with the advice to pick something you could stand being in 15 years from now. However, I'll rein it in with the statement that many majors aren't worth spit once you graduate. Narrow your feild of choice to something that will get you beyond serving in McDonald's. See the film Fast Food Women for inspiration..

mridula

Interesting vs. making money, you are already up to contradictions in life. International Business will have some very dry papers relating to export-import and economics. And some interesting ones like cross-cultural differences, etc.

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lonelyaztec

In India, there is a course called Tourism management...do the equivalent of it in your Country.

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