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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is currently a college sophomore. She is a poly sci major right now and enjoys it. However, she is now unsure abt going to law school. I know a poly sci degree doesn’t mean you have to go to law school after but she is unsure if it is the right degree for her. She is not interested in coming back to dc(she goes to school in nyc). She is inspired by the wealth and plentiful of high paying jobs she sees in nyc in industries like finance marketing advertising etc but doesn’t  know how to break into those fields. UN might be a possibility but does not want to work as a gov employee or do political campaigning where there is little compensation for lots of hard work. There is a major at her school in her current arts and sciences discipline called business communications. It would overlap with lots of her classes she already took and doesn’t require the math heavy classes that the business school does(she is no math student). Any advice on switching major and future career paths? [/quote]

If she wants one of those high paying finance jobs, she needs to go into finance/MBA.

Working in Comms at a business can pay well but isn't going to generate the kind of wealth she seems to envision to live in NYC, unless she bootstraps for a start up and gets lucky in an IPO.

Same thing with marketing or advertising. Being a young 20-something in those fields in NYC means she is likely living with 3 other people in a small apartment in Brooklyn - not like "friends" or "seinfeld" or some other NY based TV show.

And getting a UN job right out of college is highly unlikely.

Usually you need to become a subject matter expert in an area which for the UN requires living abroad and being in country or working deeply in food, or development or health or some other area.[/quote]

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