What was your Major in College, and what are you doing today? Would you have done something different now that you have a better understanding of the world? What would that be?

This is something that I have always thought about.

As of right now, I am an Anthropology major with the emphasis in the cultural side, but now that I am taking a prehistoric archaeology class... I am starting to regret my decision on the major.

I am thinking about changing to Poly Sci with a minor in Sociology, then going to Law School.

Why?

Because it will be hard to make any money as an anthro major, and I have habits and addictions that need to be fed!


Anyways... lets see it.

 

As an undergad, I was a biomedical engineer. I'm still in school, but as a graduate student majoring in biomedical devices. I probably would still have gone into biomedical engineering, but I would have tried a lot harder to get more research experience and work in labs.

 

Computer Arts: New Media.

I'm still doing design crap right now. Yea. However, I think I would have approached it differently. I had the option of taking more web design classes as an elective to learn Javascript and PHP. I didn't because I was lazy and I did mostly print work. Well, that bit me in the *** later cuz everything moved to web. So now I have to learn that stuff to get with the times. LOL. I do get a kick out of seeing my stuff in print on magazines, brochures, business cards, and stuff. So it wasn't all in vain.

 

Electrical engineering, BS, I'm a... well, electrical engineer. Trying to switch to something like a sales engineer, technical marketing in order to round out a business school app some years down the road.

If I had a better understanding of the world I would have done an easier engineering major and tried to get into a top law school, or done computer science or did my major with a software emphasis. (I did hardware)

The thing with law schools is.... getting into the top law schools in the country (ivy league) gives you a good chance at the high paying dream jobs - I can't believe I'm about to turn 25 and 3 years out of college my former roomate is graduating from Harvard Law and getting $240k for a gig in Hong Kong. First tier but not top-of-the-food-chain law schools - Santa Clara, UCLA, etc. I'm told the top fifth to top fourth of the class or so will have a good chance at getting into "big law," and everybody else... totally screwed, having just paid well north of $150k for an education that gets them a job paying $50k a year.

Law school doesn't matter what major as much - though technical majors have an easier time getting into top schools I'm told. Law school apps depend on your LSAT, GPA, extracurriculars - I knew a girl who was anthropology like you, and she still got into Harvard Law

So I don't want to discourage you from going to law school, but you should know the vast majority of guys with law degrees, even those who are practicing attorneys, don't make much money. It's a similar deal with medical school - you need to be top of the class to get good residencies, and by extension good jobs. I would say unless a person is really top notch and has the confidence they can be "the best of the best" both med school and law school are a waste of time compared to say, engineering majors.

Engineering jobs are more meritocratic, meaning people can get to Chico state and get the same job a person from Stanford would get, because they are technically sound and an engineer's job is no BS - you can do it or you suck. Business, marketing, law, all the fuzzy stuff - it matters a lot more which university you get your degree from because "image counts" in those lines of work.

 

I majored in get a damn job and pay some bills. Somehow it's worked out OK for me.

 

Chico has a pretty good Engineering Department.



Anyways, I started going for an Electrical Engineering Major, but I have since switched to Business with emphasis in Entrepreneurship and small business management.

I originally though it would be cool to have a desk job designing the next big thing, but after really thinking about it and spending some time in the real world I have decided that I would much rather try to start my own business. A few friends and I keep kicking around all these ideas for partnerships and such.

I was initially told, before I ever had a thought about college, that it doesn't matter what degree you have but just the fact that you have a degree. I am not sure how much of that still holds true. But I would definitely say that you shouldn't feel like what you study in college is going to determine your career path.

 

What was your Major in College?
Business Management.....

what are you doing today?
Studying a new language in a country while seeing any opportunity of bring their money out of their country for my piggy bank.....

Would you have done something different now that you have a better understanding of the world?
Yeah, examine and take any opportunity out of this bad economy....There are many usefull things from a sunken gigantic cargo ships.

What would that be?
I do not know still thinking...bad economy means higher exchange rate of dollars, Yen,Euros, etc. so, anything that could bring that **** across the ocean....

 

Associates in Music education. Now my BS in RN

 

History major with emphasis on china, minor in EAS.

Now I r teacher

 

Bachelors in Economics and a Master's in Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on Arabic Language. I don't regret it a bit, it seems every week more and more jobs open up and I love what I do. I could be making insane money working for Halliburton or Shaw Group or something in the Middle East but right now I'm on Uncle Sam's payroll. He keeps me pretty comfortable though.

 

BS in Business Management and Business Marketing.. And I am a manager for a flooring company..