If you were to start college tomorrow, what would you major in?
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Anonymous
It's also sad that a degree costs 150k. |
Anonymous
| Math. I have always loved math and have taken calculus and other math courses for fun over the years since college but I was too scared to major in it when I was in undergrad. I wish I'd just gone for it. Maybe I wouldn't have been able to hack it but I should have at least tried. |
Anonymous
Didn't explain it fully. Yes -- you can outsource CS just like you can outsource civil or mechanical. Thing is right now there is HUGE demand for CS/IT, so there are a huge number of jobs for it in the U.S. As time goes on companies will realize they are spending more and more on CS/IT issues and will look to do it on the cheap -- meaning send that work to companies that are using consultants in way cheaper places where you can pay an engineer 30k instead of 70k right out of college. And then the CS outsourcing will begin. To those who think it isn't possible -- it's exactly what happened in mech/civil -- HUGE demand in the US in the 70s-80s, to where you could get a visa to come live in the U.S. easily if you had those degrees bc there weren't enough qualified American engineers. Then over time it became clear that if you send the work to cheaper countries, you don't have to pay nearly as much. For STEM -- I think bio engineering holds the least threat of outsourcing. It takes remarkable "creativity" to be able to come up with new treatments and devices and other countries rival/top us in teaching math and science, they also pride themselves on a more "rote" education so the creative developments don't happen in those countries in the same way. |
Anonymous
| Genetics and molecular biology. |
Anonymous
| Speech pathology |
Anonymous
Why? Just asking as my mother was a speech pathology major (back when a sheepskin distressed a sheep). She was a SAHM and only briefly worked as a volunteer, but where's the market? Of course, teaching the hearing impaired is part, but where else? Just curious. |
Anonymous
| I would have taken more fine art classes and majored in a design program. I have a natural talent but never trained. I feel like I missed my calling and I now I am stuck in high level admin work that is I can perform effortlessly. I am well compensated but bored as hell. |
Anonymous
| Econ |
Anonymous
| I might have gone into nursing. |
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Statistics if you want an office job as they need statisticians in everything and then you can go to business school.
Computer science but not for strict coding/development for IT and cyber security type things Nursing- especially pediatric or geriatric This is biased since I'm an engineer and I do enjoy it. Also biased for types of jobs in DC and for normal middle Class life. Not the high flying business entrepreneur type situation since those people are usually super motivated and will probably success in whatever. |
Anonymous
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Math and actuarial science if you want a low pressure highly paid job. Introverts only need apply.
If you get good you can do financial engineering. |
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Pre Med with the idea to go into neuro - psychiatry specifically.
Languages Economics (maybe - not sure) |
Anonymous
| I would major in what I majored in. Physics. Strong job market, much of which can not be outsourced. |
Anonymous
| I would have stayed in engineering but would have married a woman in finance. |
Anonymous
This, if I weren't so freaked by needles, blood and hospitals. I think it's a smart career choice for those who can handle the downsides. I probably would have still majored in marketing. I do like my field and there is a lot of directions you can go with a marketing degree. |