What was your undergraduate major? Did you enjoy it? Does it relate to what you do now?

[Anonymous]

Interdisciplinary studies.

Yes, I use it actually. Daily.

[Anonymous]

Theology! The advantage of a professionally useless major is that you have to figure out what you really want to do with your life. After I graduated I went home, worked in the family business, and got involved in political activism -- which led to a low-paying activist job. Later I went back to grad school with a focus on social science and peace and justice studies. I'm a researcher today.

I'm generally in favor of studying what really speaks to you. The problem for young people today is that it feels as if they don't have the time to work a low-paid job as a sales clerk while they figure out what to do next. I could get away with that in the 80s.

Fortunately my college student daughter has an idea of what she wants to do and she has been doing informational interviewing like crazy this year. I think she'll be okay if she can get that entry-level job in the industry. But it's tough for young people today! My heart goes out to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Theology! The advantage of a professionally useless major is that you have to figure out what you really want to do with your life. After I graduated I went home, worked in the family business, and got involved in political activism -- which led to a low-paying activist job. Later I went back to grad school with a focus on social science and peace and justice studies. I'm a researcher today.

I'm generally in favor of studying what really speaks to you. The problem for young people today is that it feels as if they don't have the time to work a low-paid job as a sales clerk while they figure out what to do next. I could get away with that in the 80s.

Fortunately my college student daughter has an idea of what she wants to do and she has been doing informational interviewing like crazy this year. I think she'll be okay if she can get that entry-level job in the industry. But it's tough for young people today! My heart goes out to them.

I am the OP and I agree with you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theology! The advantage of a professionally useless major is that you have to figure out what you really want to do with your life. After I graduated I went home, worked in the family business, and got involved in political activism -- which led to a low-paying activist job. Later I went back to grad school with a focus on social science and peace and justice studies. I'm a researcher today.

I'm generally in favor of studying what really speaks to you. The problem for young people today is that it feels as if they don't have the time to work a low-paid job as a sales clerk while they figure out what to do next. I could get away with that in the 80s.

Fortunately my college student daughter has an idea of what she wants to do and she has been doing informational interviewing like crazy this year. I think she'll be okay if she can get that entry-level job in the industry. But it's tough for young people today! My heart goes out to them.

I am the OP and I agree with you!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interdisciplinary studies.

Yes, I use it actually. Daily.

Care to elaborate?

[Anonymous]

Chemistry. I was sick of it halfway through but it was tied to a full ride scholarship so I stuck it out. Went to grad school for something else and ended up working in environmental policy. Don't use the chemistry at all.

[Anonymous]

I majored in engineering which was basically torture every single day in college. I stuck it out and went to law school (no career plan but more because I didn't enjoy engineering). That combo turned out to be a golden ticket and opened many many doors for me professionally. Met and married DH along the way (he was also engineering-to-law). It's been a good life.

[Anonymous]

American Studies major. I don't actively use it in my job I guess, except that it helped me understand the history and context of a vast amount of people and cultures in the US and I am able to speak on a wide range of topics. I am glad I chose something that lit me up--I work in a writing and analysis job and being excited about school helped me figure out how to be excited about my work. people who major in something "practical" like marketing or administration are often unimaginative and dull.

[Anonymous]

English and sociology, and they were good preparation for law school (now a lawyer).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:History and psychology. Total waste of time. my children are both going into computer science and technology majors.

Boy, I sure hope they like computer science and technology. Going into an area just because there are jobs is a recipe for serious unhappiness

--former accounting major who wishes she had majored in English, Languages and History.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theology! The advantage of a professionally useless major is that you have to figure out what you really want to do with your life. After I graduated I went home, worked in the family business, and got involved in political activism -- which led to a low-paying activist job. Later I went back to grad school with a focus on social science and peace and justice studies. I'm a researcher today.

I'm generally in favor of studying what really speaks to you. The problem for young people today is that it feels as if they don't have the time to work a low-paid job as a sales clerk while they figure out what to do next. I could get away with that in the 80s.

Fortunately my college student daughter has an idea of what she wants to do and she has been doing informational interviewing like crazy this year. I think she'll be okay if she can get that entry-level job in the industry. But it's tough for young people today! My heart goes out to them.

I am the OP and I agree with you!

+1

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BA in theatre, with a minor in education. I use my degree every day as a theatre teacher, but also VERY much appreciate everything I learned in my liberal arts education, and in the jobs I had right out of school while I "waited" for the job I was meant to have.

[Anonymous]

Philosophy. Loved it. Still use it today in thinking through problems in my practice of law. (I'm a lawyer.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theology! The advantage of a professionally useless major is that you have to figure out what you really want to do with your life. After I graduated I went home, worked in the family business, and got involved in political activism -- which led to a low-paying activist job. Later I went back to grad school with a focus on social science and peace and justice studies. I'm a researcher today.

I'm generally in favor of studying what really speaks to you. The problem for young people today is that it feels as if they don't have the time to work a low-paid job as a sales clerk while they figure out what to do next. I could get away with that in the 80s.

Fortunately my college student daughter has an idea of what she wants to do and she has been doing informational interviewing like crazy this year. I think she'll be okay if she can get that entry-level job in the industry. But it's tough for young people today! My heart goes out to them.

I am the OP and I agree with you!

PP philosophy major here. I agree as well.

[Anonymous]

Classics and German double major. Have used them both throughout all of my careers.

[Anonymous]

Engineering. Loved most of it. Engineer now use skills I learned every day and I built off of them in 10 years. Wish I took more accounting or Econ but I've done that woth ex ecotour classes to help with management things. The only thing I would change about my undergrad is I wish I studied more and harder and learned more then. Hard to learn new tech concepts now without a base for certain things. I'm a woman btw.