I’m guessing the series of grievance studies classes aren’t among them...
yet.
Until the gov’t opens special high paying jobs for them.
How much for womyns or ethnic studies?
Pick a discipline where you can get at least three times your age (preferably 4) and that has a growth path to maintain that throughout your career.
Otherwise, go to plumping school....rules aren’t hard.
1) sh!t flows downhill, and
2) don’t bite your fingernails.
My BIL barely finished HS but tutored under his father as a plumber. He’s a millionaire now
What they don’t tell you is that if you are an older student you’ll only find a job if you let them send your ass to the Middle East!
Who would have thunk it, Engineering, making things and making things work.
Community Activism, and Political Science not on the list.
I wouldn’t count on Petroleum Engineering holding the top spot in a survey conducted today. It would still be good $$$ but less positions available.
I was an English major, and have had a more-or-less successful 40-year run as a physician.
The fraction of college "students", in all majors, who belong in college is probably 10%, or less. The chances that a graduate, in any major, will be successful has little to do with the major, and much to do with IQ (#1), ability to work and defer gratification (#2), personality (#3), and ambition (#4).
It is true, to a degree, that major is a surrogate for these things. It's believable that STEM majors have high IQs, and that education majors have low IQs. But, a high-IQ education major will wind up making $500K+ as a bureaucrat, and a low-IQ science major will wind up a 45-year old post-doc.
The whole thing is f***ed up, no doubt. But the idea that if you pick the "right major" that you have a ticket to riches is ridiculous.
I don’t like these lists. They make money the top priority, and don’t tell the whole story. We had a Physicist here on FR. He was bright and successful, but went into software development, I believe. There wasn’t much future for him as a physicist.
One word, “Plastics!”
This can’t be right. Where’s basket weaving and navel lint studies?
My kids are in two of these! My son is in Aerospace Engineering and my daughter is in Biomedical Engineering. Both go to Purdue.
When my daughter got cold feet her first year, she called me to change majors. I told her okay, but she’d have to pick a less expensive school. But she had grown so affectionate for Purdue, she decided to stay in her major. Now in her Junior year, she’s glad she made the choice.
I joke that these two are my retirement plan! Don’t anyone tell you that the environment you’re raised in doesn’t matter. Education and thirst for learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
I’m going to print this out for my 17 yr old son. He informed me that he is no longer willing to do his daily chores on our small horse farm so I informed him that he needed to get his ass out of bed this morning and find a job if:
A) he expected to eat,
B) he expected to utilize the electricity I pay for the house and especially the TV,
C) walking around money,
D) buy his school supplies and clothes.
He just stood there with his mouth open and stared.
So I go up and did his chores for him and let his candy ass sleep in until 6:30. Then drug him out of bed and had him hit the bricks at 7:45. I even had to tell him that most places were open at either 8 or 9 in the morning.