[Imagineering]

	Originally Posted by True Rune To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Religion. What are you gonna do with that?

I hear preaching/evangelism is a multi-billion dollar industry. Take donations from cancer patients who want to be saved and clean them out for Jesus?

[antistu]

	Originally Posted by Imagineering To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I hear preaching/evangelism is a multi-billion dollar industry. Take donations from cancer patients who want to be saved and clean them out for Jesus?

A little boy told his teacher “I want to be a crook when I grow up.” So the teacher asked, “So do you want to be a Lawyer, Politician, Doctor, or Preacher?”

There are dishonest people in every profession.

[Heath]

History major here. Whenever somebody asks me what my major is and I reply with "History" they always assume I'm headed towards law school.

I was thinking more along the lines of scholarly work. Is academia that unappetizing?

[kohreval]

Archaeology. Didn't directly help my career (software development), but it probably had some marginal benefit in terms of communication and report writing. Currently I'm back in school part-time to finish up a math degree.

[Chaotic Enigma]

I live in Europe, Italy...So i have no idea until what age college lasts.

Here we have highschool from 14-19 and then University and it lasts 5 years (unless you do Medicine. That lasts a lot more)

In highschool I did humanities: latin/greek grammar + litterature, history, philosophy, history of art, italian litterature. Plus we had the basic scientific subjects: maths, physics, biology, chemistry and geology, but those were not done with much depth.

I'm now at university and i am studying Molecular Biotechnology. I think i did the right choice because after the humanities i felt the need to be complete and went to the science side. Plus, biotechnology is a mix scientific knowledges and i like that because this prevents me from getting bored. From the down side i sometimes find it too technical and have a hard time with that. From a professional point of view i think it's a good choice because science is the future and i will be able to do my future job in any country i will live in ..(Hopefully!)

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	Originally Posted by antistu To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	A little boy told his teacher “I want to be a crook when I grow up.” So the teacher asked, “So do you want to be a Lawyer, Politician, Doctor, or Preacher?” There are dishonest people in every profession.

Antistu, your joke made me laugh because it's true. Good one!

[Tacitus]

	Originally Posted by Heath To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	History major here. Whenever somebody asks me what my major is and I reply with "History" they always assume I'm headed towards law school. I was thinking more along the lines of scholarly work. Is academia that unappetizing?

Not as much money or prestige in academia.

I majored history/philosophy undergrad (lot of statistics too) and am doing graduate work in history focusing on social/quantitative methods. In hindsight should have double majored philosophy/math undergrad then switched over to history (higher GRE scores, better job opportunities with a Math degree, greater understanding of statistical methods).

It does annoy me that many of history professors are Sensors and don't put much focus on theory.

[Zerkezhi]

Currently studying linguistics; might take up Mathematics as a second major or switch to that entirely. (out of boredom / increased work chances later on)

[Innovate]

Sophomore in college for physics

[CaelestisPeste]

Just Finance; I thought about Corporate Finance, but that requires directing some of my attention towards accounting. I don't like accounting.

[Sumwun]

English/Pre-Med for now, changing to English/Biology soon.

[mhy]

Computer science, and double major in music. Minor in mathematics.

Going for either a MBA/MS CS dual degree or PhD in CS after a few years in industry...

[theiceman]

I'm a psychology major and I love it. I've known people that have gotten out of psychology because it has research that needs to be completed but I think that's the fun part. Humans and animals are fun to learn about in my opinion. Everybody I know has a stereotype that psychology is a really bad major but it's actually a really good one and it's fun to learn about in my opinion.

I might go back to school one day and get a sociology degree but not until I get out of grad school and work a few years.

[Sumwun]

Originally Posted by theiceman To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

I'm a psychology major and I love it. I've known people that have gotten out of psychology because it has research that needs to be completed but I think that's the fun part. Humans and animals are fun to learn about in my opinion. Everybody I know has a stereotype that psychology is a really bad major but it's actually a really good one and it's fun to learn about in my opinion. I might go back to school one day and get a sociology degree but not until I get out of grad school and work a few years.

Psychology is only a bad major if you don't plan to get a PhD. It's like science degrees. By itself, it's worthless. All it does is enable you to get another degree, which will then enable you to get a job. By itself, it's like a set of wheels without the car body.

[thehammer]

Culinary Arts. I originally wanted to study Meteorology, as I have always been interested in weather, but it's kind of a dead end. My high school teachers suggested I be a doctor, but I was already burned out on school by my freshman year of college, and basically retaking high school classes (prereqs) made it worse. Eight more years? Couldn't do it. So I took a break from school, found out I love food and cooking, and decided to be a chef.

[Sumwun]

Originally Posted by thehammer To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Culinary Arts. I originally wanted to study Meteorology, as I have always been interested in weather, but it's kind of a dead end. My high school teachers suggested I be a doctor, but I was already burned out on school by my freshman year of college, and basically retaking high school classes (prereqs) made it worse. Eight more years? Couldn't do it. So I took a break from school, found out I love food and cooking, and decided to be a chef.

I hate to break it to you, but culinary arts is a scam. You'll get a lot father as a chef by simply working in restaurants and practicing your cooking.

[thehammer]

	Originally Posted by Sumwun To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	I hate to break it to you, but culinary arts is a scam. You'll get a lot father as a chef by simply working in restaurants and practicing your cooking.

Obviously experience means a lot (in every field, not just this), but more and more restaurants these days like to see the certificate and degree, just based on my interactions and interviews. I'm more interested in the science part of it, anyway, so I'm looking for a nice test kitchen somewhere. Pretty sure there's not one in my neck of the woods.

[Sumwun]

	Originally Posted by thehammer To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Obviously experience means a lot (in every field, not just this), but more and more restaurants these days like to see the certificate and degree, just based on my interactions and interviews. I'm more interested in the science part of it, anyway, so I'm looking for a nice test kitchen somewhere. Pretty sure there's not one in my neck of the woods.

Whatever you do, make sure you don't take our loans for it.

Culinary arts is not a field you want to work in with $25,000 of debt. I'm surprised you need a degree to do it. Most celebrity chefs are simply good cooks. No college degree required.

[thehammer]

Most celebrity chefs are just good personalities who can sell their product well, while many great chefs are not well-known by the general public. I'm not looking for fame. Cooking makes me happy.

And I am in debt, but not $25,000 worth.

[Sumwun]

	Originally Posted by thehammer To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Most celebrity chefs are just good personalities who can sell their product well, while many great chefs are not well-known by the general public. I'm not looking for fame. Cooking makes me happy. And I am in debt, but not $25,000 worth.

Wasn't that my point?

Cooking is all about

1) Making food taste good.
2) Making food look good.
3) Convincing people your food is good.

No degree required.

[thehammer]

	Originally Posted by Sumwun To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Wasn't that my point? Cooking is all about 1) Making food taste good. 2) Making food look good. 3) Convincing people your food is good. No degree required.

And I never said it was required. I just said it helps.

[Micius]

Political science, but oh how I envy the 10.55% that chose bio ._.

[derpdederp]

Double major in Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering with Mechatronics subspecialty. I stuck with math because it made me feel like an idiot in my freshman year honors calculus class and I wanted to get better (it worked!). I got into MechE because I really like physics and technology in general. I chose MechE over EE originally because I liked classical mechanics and thermodynamics more than E&M at the time. That changed as I got better at math, so for the last year I was a little dismayed that I hadn't chosen EE, but the Mechatronics option has been great. It's essentially an EE minor and gives me an excuse to learn more E&M.

Currently looking at graduate programs... Will either go for applied math or something dynamics & controls related... or maybe computational physics... I don't know what I want to do.

[Rivers]

I have two majors, English and education.

[theiceman]

	Originally Posted by Sumwun To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Psychology is only a bad major if you don't plan to get a PhD. It's like science degrees. By itself, it's worthless. All it does is enable you to get another degree, which will then enable you to get a job. By itself, it's like a set of wheels without the car body.

Agreed but right now I'm on track of applying to several prestigious programs to start my graduate program career. Psychology is worthless on its own because all it does is study humans and their interactions which is useless at the bachelors level. Once you get into the PhD level then you can run your own practice, work big companies, etc.

I agree with your analogy about the set of wheels without a car body.

[GSOgymrat]

I have a BA in psychology, minor in English and a MA in counseling psychology.