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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I was asking about college/career path advice. My kids have taken AP science and math and earned A's, but it doesn't come naturally to them, and they have no real interest, and certainly no love, for these subjects. I just can't imagine having a happy and productive life choosing a career that one is not suited for, even if it is a "safe" choice.[/quote]

Late 2000s college grad here.  If you don't have any aptitude to be an engineer, doctor, or programmer (honestly these are the STEM careers that are "safe") then don't.  Med school is competitive, and the curves in engineering are brutal.  It's just not true that all engineers are making more and are more employable than all English majors.  I know plenty of engineering majors with low GPAs who get screened out by HR and are incredibly bitter.  I also know English majors who are doing quite well.  Proportionally, more engineers are employable, sure, but these are generalizations.

This whole "the day of majoring in hobbies is over" mantra is a bit hyperbolic.  If you do major in the humanities or social sciences, you just have to be a little more prepared to hustle, network, and take advantage of internships.  There are still jobs at non-profits, in publishing, in journalism, at think tanks, being an editor, etc.  My peers who graduated who did not study the sciences (which I did, btw) are not uniformly unemployed, nor are my STEM friends uniformly doing well.  And for all that law is screwed as a profession, those kids who are going to top law schools and graduating in the top half of their class are still by and large finding employment.  It's not easy, but the secret is that STEM is not a surefire path either.[/quote]

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