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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, picking a major is not the big deal you. And your daughter are making it out to be. Ask your successful friends what they majored in - the answers will be all over the place. Most people enter careers they haven’t even heard of in college (I do research which looks at career pathways of people) and switch careers multiple times in the lifetime.

Make sure your DD picks a major with classes she likes — a good GPA can be important for the very competitive jobs. College and classes will be more enjoyable if she likes what she is studying. If she hates her major it will be very hard or unpleasant to make herself study enough to get decent grades.

Outside of her major, if it’s not something clearly aligned with a career track, have her take electives which align with a career track she might be interested in. So if she majors in a language, maybe taking courses in data analysis, or marketing. Then when she applies to job or internships she can talk about how her classes make her a good candidate for the position.

You both sound anxious. Maybe suggest your daughter get therapy for her anxiety - or at least a few sessions on how to stop ruminating - this isn’t healthy for anyone. [/quote]

I did suggest that to her but she is not interested. What she likes is not something marketable. She is heading what she thinks is going an unpleasant way now but very marketable. For the first month + I tried to tell her not to worry and to do what you said in terms of taking specific courses to make her major more skilled-based. She would not hear of it, said everyone she knows is doing "harder things" so she felt silly doing something so easy (right now her GPA is through the roof, she finds it all ridiculously easy), and she insisted she needs a marketable degree and to do something more challenging. So yes, I am very anxious about how her spring semester is going to be though I did get some reassuring feedback about the coursework on a different board.[/quote]

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