How do you prevent your weak-minded child from majoring in something easy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not 1970 folks, it's not even 1990 or 1995 when young parents were in college, it's about to be 2017. It's a global economy. Jobs are hi-tech. Dummy degrees from non-selective colleges are nearly worthless.

Pretend know-it-all should be in lesser demand.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't help when you have all the con artist faculty filling them with empty promises four years. Then when they can't get a job they sell them another scam: non-elite law schools and MBA programs!

[Anonymous]

Be poorer. I picked a major that was attractive to employers because I had a a ton of student loans and my parents were really sacrificing to send me to college. If your child doesn't appreciate the cost of their college, they may not understand why it's so important to make the most out of their 4 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My oldest initially wanted to major in philosophy. Then religion. I was getting concerned, but didn't say anything. He changed his major about five more times before finally ending up with a double major Political Science and English. He is 26 and working on a Masters. He had no trouble at all finding a job.

Doing what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For your children's sake, drop the criticism and be supportive. Sure, maybe she's unemployed because she majored in sociology, but she also might be unemployed because a lot of recent grads are unemployed -- it's a terrible job market for them. Here is a recent study showing that: https://www.cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Unemployment_Final_update1.pdf

It shows for instance that yes recent humanities grads have a 9.4% unemployment rate, but even computer and math majors have an 8.2% unemployment rate. It sucks for everyone right now. And the lowest unemployment rate among recent grads isn't engineering or accounting or whatever -- it's teaching.

Don't listen to this person. I was a sociology major. You are right to be concerned, very concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't help when you have all the con artist faculty filling them with empty promises four years. Then when they can't get a job they sell them another scam: non-elite law schools and MBA programs!

She should do her first year or two at NOVA while she figures things out and matures.

[Anonymous]

Yikes, too many clueless boomers and gen X'ers still telling kids to major in whatever they want. Times have changed! No employer worth a damn seeks out dime a dozen dummy degrees from Tailgate State. Sets up a career of struggle. Mark my words, you let them major in something easy you'll be paying their bills through their 20s, at least, and they'll be begging you to pay for grad school when they realize what life is like on 30-40k per year and no chance of real advancement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For your children's sake, drop the criticism and be supportive. Sure, maybe she's unemployed because she majored in sociology, but she also might be unemployed because a lot of recent grads are unemployed -- it's a terrible job market for them. Here is a recent study showing that: https://www.cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Unemployment_Final_update1.pdf

It shows for instance that yes recent humanities grads have a 9.4% unemployment rate, but even computer and math majors have an 8.2% unemployment rate. It sucks for everyone right now. And the lowest unemployment rate among recent grads isn't engineering or accounting or whatever -- it's teaching.

Don't listen to this person. I was a sociology major. You are right to be concerned, very concerned.

The data is real. You may think that it would have been easy to get a job as a math or engineering major, but the data don't support that.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, weak minded kids probably should pick easy majors.

[Anonymous]

If I were your kid, I would take out loans, go to the local state school, majored in whatever I wanted, and get a job, just to prove you wrong and to get away from you. Do you say this sort of thing to your child's face? That is just abusive! Like honest to God cruel. Don't be too upset when your kids don't take care of you in old age because you treated them so badly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not 1970 folks, it's not even 1990 or 1995 when young parents were in college, it's about to be 2017. It's a global economy. Jobs are hi-tech. Dummy degrees from non-selective colleges are nearly worthless.

Not all of us have high-tech jobs. Some of our jobs are in non-profits, in education, or in the arts (to name a few). And we worked hard in our "easy" majors, which turned out not to be so easy if we put the actual necessary work in. It's okay. It really is.

[Anonymous]

There isn't any such thing as an "easy" major, it just depends where your skills lie. If you're good at math, math is an easy major. If you're not good at writing or understanding other people, English and psychology will be difficult majors.

My kid is really good at math and has a math-related major. It is no surprise to me that he finds it easy. Kids will do well in the long run if they have the skills and ability to do well in their chosen major.

[Anonymous]

OP sounds like my mother who I don't speak to.

I'm about to go delete the happy thanksgiving text she sent me yapping about how much she loves me and she wants to see the kids.

Yawn. I'm unmoved. I ignored it.

Keep being a cold, narcissist bitch and your kid will let go of any attachment to you.

[Anonymous]

Only a fraction of the population will attend an elite school.

Yet somehow, millions of people who didn't manage to lead normal, happy, successful lives.

How dare those people!

[Anonymous]

Psychology from Yale can still get a great job on Wall St., Silicon Valley, consulting, anything really.

Psychology from Meathead State will lead to unemployment line, voting for Bernie, and facebooking how unfair the student loan industry is.