Your mileage may vary. English major has served me very well.
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I have a grandson ranked in the top 3 of his class of about 600 who, amazingly, ignores my advice to select a STEM major because he wants to become a writer. Ideally a playwright or screenwriter. He is likely to be admitted to NYU and that is is first choice.
Any advice?
Tell his parents they shouldn't waste their money on his college education.
If you look at college as a pre-professional school, then something like play-writing is a hard row to hoe. Many want to do it, very very few succeed.
But if you look at college as a way of learning the history of western ideas and ideals, and learning to write and speak of complicated ideas but with clear and understandable language, then a humanities major is a great way to start out in life. Your starting salary won’t be as high as the engineers’, but your upside is greater, because you can think broadly, not merely calculatingly.
The number of English majors at the top levels of Wall Street and corporate America would surprise a lot of people who wrongly assume that business is a computational exercise.
Happiness is important too?
I have a granddaughter who is a whiz in math and science. She has chosen a small state college and is going for an Occupational Therapy degree. It is a 2 year degree so I told her she needed to work on her bachelor’s in conjunction with that program.
She met with Dr. So and So Tuesday, he gave her a plan which gives her a bachelor’s by the end of the next fall semester and she will have her OT degree in the spring semester, that will be a month after she turns 21.
After all that was said he asked her why she was there and that she should be at Harvard or somewhere else. You would think that she would’ve felt complimented but it just made her anxious.
I did tell her to just stay the course, she will have all the pre-med courses and she still has a lot of time.
So my advice is he’s still young and has a lot of years ahead of him and nothing is set in stone.
My grandson is also darned smart and is eighth out of 569 and he wants to be a singer/actor, LOL.
Tell him to spend some time looking for a job as a writer and find out how many jobs are open and what they pay.