What was your college major . . . what are you doing now . . . and what's your DC's college major?

[Anonymous]

I know, basically 3 questions for the price of one . . . just engaged in a dialogue with DC, DH, and others about prospective college majors, and I am curious about the answers to the above.

[Anonymous]

College - history, sociology
Grad school - JD, MBA
Work - Attorney, strategy consultant
DC wants to be a lit major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College - history, sociology
Grad school - JD, MBA
Work - Attorney, strategy consultant
DC wants to be a lit major.

And your better half?

[Anonymous]

Physics
Physics
Physics

Runs in the family I guess...

[Anonymous]

Me: Government/Psych
Now: Marketing

DH: Economics
Now: Newspaper Editor

[Anonymous]

College - journalism (just have the BA)
Work in marketing for a small engineering firm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College - journalism (just have the BA)
Work in marketing for a small engineering firm

And my kid wants to major in marketing or journalism

[Anonymous]

My college major - theology
Grad school -- sociology
Work as a researcher
Kid is a psychology major but is really working towards film production

[Anonymous]

Major: Business Management
Job: Program Analyst for the fed gov

[Anonymous]

Me:psych major
Job: COO of. Consulting firm

DH Econ undergrad; film school graduate. School
Job:owns a media co

DC; HS SR wants to major in psych next yearand be a therapist eventually

[Anonymous]

Me: marketing major, statistics minor. Job - marketing research
DH: electrical engineering. Job: computer programmer

DS wants to do engineering (not suRe which type yet). DD wants to do biology/zoology

[Anonymous]

OP, if your objective is to see whether the majors of parents and their current occupations offer any sort of guidance as to the prospects for majors children choose, there is a fundamental flaw in your approach.

Basically, with the changing job environment, certain majors that may have been viable in terms of job prospects in years gone by may have limited prospects today.

[Anonymous]

BA Psychology
Fed GS-15 in IT

[Anonymous]

DH: Economics BA, JD
Me: Communications/Biology BA, MBA
DS: Geophysics

[Anonymous]

Me: BSN, MSN and PhD all in Nursing - now a SVP/CNO
DH: BA in Justice, MS in Info Tech - now a SVP/CIO
DS: Was a Biology major, now 2nd year med school
DD: Nursing major