My vote is civil engineering since our nation’s infrastructure is falling apart.

Anything that A.I. can do, you do not want to invest in.

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Anonymous wrote:Law.

Healthcare

Real estate

This must be a joke because who needs them now. Just hire a real estate attorney and be done.

Property management, flipping, commercial brokerage, landlording, identifying opportunities.

It’s the basic commodity.

I wouldn't recommend speech pathology. The shortages are making SLP's who are already in schools absorb the vacant position's caseload. The paperwork is a lot. I spend more time on paperwork then I do with kids. Parents in some circumstances are demanding and make life stressful. In the medical area, things are also bleak. SLP's are paid a low hourly rate with really high productivity expectations.

That being said, if you want to do speech, go to a low cost state school and low cost grad program. The job is great for flexibility because you can easily work part time for a school or private practice (marry well so you can do that). Also, I still think there are some niche avenues to explore that can generate good money - for example, being a feeding specialist (and putting out content for classes and what not), information about tongue ties and monetizing it in some way, etc.

Finance is good.
10-year old said that he was not planning to go to college, but manage family money. He may do a better job than I.

Anonymous wrote:This is already known but education is a bad one. Not even incorporating the pay and work conditions, the need for a degree in education to be a teacher is declining. A teaching license is not required in most charters and many school districts with mass shortages are contracting with companies to bring teachers from overseas or they have low cost programs for career switchers or those without education related degrees. A Special or Elementary Education degree will have them boxed in, and from experience it is quite difficult to get another job if they don’t like it.

I agree with you, but think this is terrible. We need more and better teachers.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? philosophy

A very difficult major and therefore a signal to hiring managers that the kid can think, and _likes_ to think. About anything you care to throw at them. Signaling intent with relevant summer internships and ECs will help with post-grad hiring.

In a rapidly changing professional landscape, adaptability will be key.

Honestly? As a hiring manager, I would think you are smart, but that you can't actually do anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Nursing. Go on to be an NP.

Nurse anesthetist.

ding, ding, ding, and yes, for the Grand Prize, this.

Nurse anesthetist here, and I agree! I went into nursing as a second career and never imagined I’d end up here, but I’m so happy I did. I have an undergraduate degree in English; went back a few years later for my BSN (did an accelerated program for students who already had a bachelor’s degree in another discipline), worked for 4 years in the ICU, then returned to school for my master’s degree in anesthesia. It’s a fun job and I love what I do. In general, nursing is a great field — so many options to work in so many different settings. I considered public health nursing for a while, and also nurse-midwifery. There’s just so much you can do with a nursing degree!

This is my HS junior's dream job. Is it hard to get an ICU nurse job as a new grad?

I went straight into the ICU from my BSN program, but this was back in 2004 so I’m not sure if things have changed. Pretty much every nursing unit is understaffed, so I would think the ICU would welcome a smart, motivated new grad — the training they put into them is a huge investment, though, so they may want someone with a year or so of experience on a lower-acuity unit. If your HS junior already knows he/she wants to pursue this path, that’s great! They have plenty of time to get the required experience for CRNA school.

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Comp lit

For best or worst?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly? philosophy

A very difficult major and therefore a signal to hiring managers that the kid can think, and _likes_ to think. About anything you care to throw at them. Signaling intent with relevant summer internships and ECs will help with post-grad hiring.

In a rapidly changing professional landscape, adaptability will be key.

Philosophy, international relations/studies, regional studies, history, languages are all useful, and IMO fun and rewarding. Even with the talk of AI, STEM, and more "technical" degrees; anything that touches geopolitics, international affairs, cultures of the world, history, etc will always be in demand and useful. Sure, you might need to get a Masters and/or a PhD eventually; and/or work for the government, military, think tanks, NGOs, and other sectors; but people with knowledge of a particular region of the world, culture, language, philosophy, and more will find rewarding employment.

Couple those aforementioned degrees with experience in cybersecurity and other more technical fields and you might be set for a while, inshallah.

Totally disagree. Employers prefer specialized degrees, and humanities majors are as unemployed as they have ever been. There is nothing employers find useful someone with a history degree. And humanities PhD's are the most unemployed of all.

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Anonymous wrote:This is already known but education is a bad one. Not even incorporating the pay and work conditions, the need for a degree in education to be a teacher is declining. A teaching license is not required in most charters and many school districts with mass shortages are contracting with companies to bring teachers from overseas or they have low cost programs for career switchers or those without education related degrees. A Special or Elementary Education degree will have them boxed in, and from experience it is quite difficult to get another job if they don’t like it.

I didn’t know that about charter schools. Wow.

This seems unlikely under the current system. But if Trump's appointees succeed in privatizing most of public education, then that is certainly what will happen.

Anonymous wrote:Law.

Healthcare

Real estate

This must be a joke because who needs them now. Just hire a real estate attorney and be done.

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Anonymous wrote:Nursing. Go on to be an NP.

Nurse anesthetist.

ding, ding, ding, and yes, for the Grand Prize, this.

Nurse anesthetist here, and I agree! I went into nursing as a second career and never imagined I’d end up here, but I’m so happy I did. I have an undergraduate degree in English; went back a few years later for my BSN (did an accelerated program for students who already had a bachelor’s degree in another discipline), worked for 4 years in the ICU, then returned to school for my master’s degree in anesthesia. It’s a fun job and I love what I do. In general, nursing is a great field — so many options to work in so many different settings. I considered public health nursing for a while, and also nurse-midwifery. There’s just so much you can do with a nursing degree!

This is my HS junior's dream job. Is it hard to get an ICU nurse job as a new grad?

Agriculture
Earth sciences
Comp lit
Engineering (for the superstar engineers only; not really for the kids who are pushed)
Medicine
Quirky majors for quirky kids

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe people are pushing philosophy majors here...last I heard they made less than English majors. Sure, you might get lucky and have your resume read by the philosophy major hiring manager but it's much better to have a viable major with philosophy as a minor.

We move in different circles then. Agree that other coursework is useful to signal intent to hiring managers (IR, poli sci, econ …). Getting multiple internships in those fields while still in college has not been impossible for DS, but he was very diligent and also fairly open minded and cast a wide net in east coast cities. Post grad will be a policy analyst type job for a couple of years, then law school, then niche practice that 100% cannot be replaced by AI because of its dependence on relationships among multi national groups.

Like I said, have a plan. Which starts with internships and ECs when you are still 19. The hiring people in the legal department or government relations section will recognize you if you show seriousness of purpose — no matter their own majors