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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had picked a more useful major than Communications. [/quote]

May I pushback on this? I also chose an easy major — because it was easy and a match to my academic preparation at that point. Do you really think you’d be able to hypothetically handle something much harder, ie something with a lot of math and science? Unless you’re able to go all the way back to 9th grade, it’s unlikely. I would have loved to have been able to major in engineering, computer science or especially pre-med, but unless I have a time machine to re-do high school, that wasn’t in the cards at age 18, even with the benefit old age wisdom.[/quote]

DP.  There are lots of majors in between Communications and STEM subjects.  [/quote]

Agreed. I was one of the “easy major” kids, not because I couldn’t do harder work but because my big state school (and high school, and family) offered nothing by way of guidance on majors or careers so I stumbled around and fell into a path of least resistance. I don’t regret it for career-success reasons but for “poor fit” reasons. In later years I came across 3 or 4 other career choices that would have been a perfect fit to my strengths and interests. An “I guess I’ll do this because I’m not sure what ELSE I would do…” career doesn’t offer the same pleasures. (And of course I could always go back to school, but you reach a certain point of career success and experience where it would be highly impractical to burn than for might-have-been.)[/quote]

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