What did your kid do with an Econ major?

[Anonymous]

management consulting for four years and then got an MBA at a top 10 program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Questions like this always make me wonder how little people know about the working world. Is it because of family businesses, SAHP, or something else.

An economics degree is very versatile for entry level jobs in banking, finance, corporate research, and other research based jobs. You do need an advanced degree in most cases to have the title of "Economist" in just about any organization, private, public or international organization.

Not OP, but DH and I are both lawyers, so we didn't know what our DS would do with his engineering degree. I didn't ask here, but did ask friends, neighbors, colleagues, classmates -- basically anyone we knew who might have some knowledge of engineering (or who might know someone with knowledge of engineering) to help us understand what the career arc for engineers is like.

I have an economics degree and used it to be employed doing fun things.

I went into college saying I’d major in physics. My college-educated parents were panicked about the idea. They had no idea what science majors other than doctors could do
for a living.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mick Jagger has a degree in Economics.

Actually he dropped out of the London School of Economics!

And see what happened.

[Anonymous]

One of them went into IT.

One works for a bank doing forecasting.

One is in an odd international business consultancy.

[Anonymous]

law school

[Anonymous]

I was an Econ major. I went on to get my JD/MBA and became a finance attorney

[Anonymous]

My husband was an econ major, went to law school, and is working as a judge.

[Anonymous]

Lots of options. My sister majors in Econ then went on to do a masters in public health. She now is the COO of a smallish services business in the healthcare field.