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Honestly, it's really their life. We should try to keep our involvement as minimal as possible. I would be fine with it as long they did one of the following: supplement technical skills, professional graduate degree, target in-demand field, Ivy League University. There is a myriad of things you can do with a liberal arts degree. I'd recommend that you and your son have an honest discussion on what his goals are.

No matter what your degree is in, you need to have a plan for what to do with it once you graduate. Fact is an engineer or data analyst degree or finance degree or accounting make it much easier to have that plan. But if you love anthropology or art history or greek mythology, major in that and develop those key critical thinking and writing skills---the world needs more people like that (just like engineers should develop the writing skills as well to succeed) But also get a minor in something that will aide with getting a job---business, data analytics, CS, etc. A business minor is typically only 6 or 7 basic business courses (Econ, statistics and 3-4 other general/intro to the area courses) A good skill set for almost anyone to have, and would certainly help an anthropology (or any other humanities major) get a leg up with finding a job.[/quote]

This is my attitude, as well.  An accountant colleague of mine told me that he regretted getting an undergrad accounting degree---he described it as trade school.  He thought he would have been better off with a path like that described above, then working a few years and getting an MBA.   [/quote]

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