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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate when people deride "easy" majors. Not everyone wants to do STEM. Not everyone cares about how much money they'll make. Sometimes people are really passionate about something and they follow that and they find deep personal and professional satisfaction in that field and don't care about the prestige or if they make high 6 figures.

I started off in a STEM major, yes, looking down my nose at "soft" majors. And then I struggled my butt off in advanced math; meanwhile, a professor told me I was a gifted writer and encouraged me to at least consider that as a minor. So I switched. I majored and writing and eventually added history as a second major.

I turned that into getting a MA in International Relations at a top 10. I wrote and published a book, and have a slew of newspaper, magazine, and journal clips. I do work I love every day. No, I am not wealthy. I'm hardly even what DCUM would consider well off. But I am happy with how my life has turned out. I have a roof over my head, people who love me, and I like to think what I do makes the world a slightly better place.

Maybe my pursuit and satisfaction of simpler things is not for you. Fine. But stop, for the love of god, with this suggestion that those of us who studied English or history or anthropology or childhood education are nothing but a bunch of slackers who were only looking for the easy way out and our job prospects being and end with "Welcome to Starbucks, how may I help you?"[/quote]

fine but the reality is you got lucky.  It is very hard to have solid income/job prospects in your field.

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Most of DCUM would not say I got lucky. My income by the standards of people who post here is laughably low. I just have a different set of standards by which I judge success.[/quote]

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