Alternatives to business major

[Anonymous]

Teacher here (and mom of communications major who posted above). Teaching is NOT a job for introverts at all. It’s is extremely tiring and overstimulating. I’m an introvert and I love my commutes home because it is total silence.

[Anonymous]

Just stick with Business. So what if she gets a bad grade in Calculus. You said she isn’t going to grad school, so I’m not sure it matters if she gets a C. Make sure she get extra help/tutoring, if needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early Childhood Education or Speech Therapy.

Mommy track MRS

Op here. I'll veto those choices. Education doesn't pay well and she doesn't want a grad degree(no speech therapy). Plus she isn't the type that's looking for a partner to support her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

+2 My DC is a marketing major. It is within the Business School and requires a lot of math, statistics, excel, etc. I am not sure why people are recommending marketing for a kid that doesn’t like calculus.

[Anonymous]

If she can get past the no-grad school requirement, my first thought was a library science degree based on her interests and personality.

[Anonymous]

Poli Sci

A foreign language

Public Health

English/History and start getting some good internships with nonprofits (museums, publishing companies, nonprofit organizations, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

Just wanted to bold that part. I was at one of the big banks for 15 years in marketing and spent much of each day working with Excel models or at a Bloomberg terminal. My entire team had to be comfortable with analytics.

I second the recommendation for communications.

[Anonymous]

Public health and communications may fit the bill the best. Thanks all and I'm open to.more suggestions!

[Anonymous]

More & more schools have an Advertising/Public Relations major which tends to be outside the business school. It’s where a lot of former business majors end up after they wash out of accounting, then finance, then supply chain, then marketing.

Check out Michigan State & U of Nebraska.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More & more schools have an Advertising/Public Relations major which tends to be outside the business school. It’s where a lot of former business majors end up after they wash out of accounting, then finance, then supply chain, then marketing.

Check out Michigan State & U of Nebraska.

Not a good major for introverts.

-signed an introvert and former Business Marketing major who switched to the IT field. Much more my cup of tea. But then, I don't mind math.

[Anonymous]

She should move to communications or any liberal arts like history English poli sci. Then go get her PMP cert. She sounds like a good PMO

[Anonymous]

She might want to find a university that has Business or Econ BA degrees. (It's the BS that requires more math.) Maybe her school has this and just fewer people do it? Did she talk to her advisor?

[Anonymous]

Is she at a rigorous school? Another option is to take core classes at an easier college, or simply to transfer. I would have never passed Finance and Accounting at Lehigh, so I took the classes over the summer at a state university. See if that could help her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If she can get past the no-grad school requirement, my first thought was a library science degree based on her interests and personality.

You really need to be more of an extrovert to work in libraries unless you are working behind the scenes in an academy library. It's a public-facing job and you listen and talk to people all day. Most of the encounters are pleasant, but some are not. You have to be part psychologist, part cop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

PP. It’s completely true. Just look at the prereqs for many business programs, and look at the requirements for the majors. Often they will not require much math at all. Some will let you through with a survey of calc as a prereq and then no math the rest of the time.

And yes, I know marketing, and much of the analytics is not calculus level math or anything close to it. Much of it isn’t even math at all. But that doesn’t even matter, because it’s about what is required for a degree, not what happens at work, and what is required isn’t math. Sorry.

So, indeed, very strange that you would comment on something you don’t seem to know anything about.