<p>Currently about to start my last year of my marketing degree but I'm really concerned I'm making a bad decision by continuing to persue that major. A lot of people tell me that marketing isn't a good way to go, that its just mostly sales and comission based. So, I'm really considering changing majors to maybe a management of finance concentration. Any advice from current or former marketing majors? Also, what school did/do you guys attend?</p>
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<p>Do you think it would be a bad decision for me to change majors when I only have 3semesters left?</p>
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<p>OK I’m in hs so i may not know much about what I’m talking about, but I don’t think you should change your major. Marketing is ok for job prospects it seems like, but not a lot of undergrad majors are great unless you love math. So do you love math? If you do, try accounting, finance, economics, or engineering. If you don’t like math, I’d say stick with marketing. You’ll probably go into sales, where you can make money, and make sure and go back and get and MBA. Then the skies the limit.</p>
<p>I am not an expert but that’s just how I feel</p>
<p>What are the “many different career paths”? Every marketing major I know went in to sales of some kind. I know 2 girls who are “social media marketers” making 30k - there job is a joke.</p>
<p>And that’s what I’m afraid of, ending up in a mediocre job making only 30k. Or stuck in comission sales doing cold calls all day just to make ends meet. My parents will be very dissapointed in me if I only get a low pay sales job after spending 5yrs in college</p>
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<p>Not all sales jobs are about ‘making cold calls’…</p>
<p>First it’s your first job, you won’t be making that much. And sales has prospect to grow. You sell well you can move up.</p>
<p>Big4, didn’t you say the “I know” argument is illegitimate?</p>
<p>No. My point was that people like you and Tosh who tell people who DO have first hand knowledge that they’re wrong because you know someone who had a unique circumstance are ridiculous and naive. If someone comes on here who works at a marketing firm and tells me that they’re hiring marketing grads like crazy, I’ll concede. Until then it is as easy as going to top marketing firm websites, looking at their personnel profiles and see that they AREN’T marketing grads. </p>
<p>The fact that the only posts I see from you are coming on here to argue with me on top of the fact that one of your last posts was comparing knowledge of job recruiting to studying history and astrophysics I think you’re just, well, sad.</p>
<p>Don’t change majors. Go through recruitment this fall and spring and see what jobs/if any you can land. If the prospects aren’t great, then go get a useful Masters degree.</p>
<p>Your masters degree doesn’t have to be in the same major as your bachelors? So I can get a marketing BA and a masters in finance?</p>
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<p>No, because you would not get the math needed to succeed in an MS of Finance program.</p>
<p>If you have taken the prereq classes for the Masters, then you are fine. </p>
<p>I don’t know what a MSF requires.</p>
<p>Oh ok.is their a separate degree for advertising? Or does that fall under marketing??</p>
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<p>bump </p>
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<p>Marketing is a great major; it is an essential, very crucial part of business. I think you’re making a good decision if it’s what you like. Finance majors are limited somewhat in the jobs they can get and management is an ok specialty. I am a marketing major at my local community college but I’m not going to finish the degree and I don’t even know what I’ll be doing next.</p>
<p>Stick with marketing and minor in finance or management if that’s what you think you want to do.</p>
<p>jaychang, you are clueless…</p>
<p>You are about to finish at a CC, which totally discredits anything you are saying.</p>
<p>Um, he said he is “not even going to finish the degree.” So actually, he is not even finishing at a CC? I don’t want to make this personal, but come on…how can there been any credibility there.</p>
<p>Damn…I misread it and had given him even more credit than he deserved.</p>
<p>Coming from a guy who has zero business experience and is not even finishing a CC degree you can’t take his opinion seriously. </p>
<p>Just because marketing is an essential part of business does not mean marketing is a good degree. It teaches no tangible skills and no creativity. It does absolutely NOTHING to help you break in to advertising. Those jobs go to the people who spend four years doing creative things. Not to people sitting in a classroom memorizing terms like market share and segmentation. Those are ridiculously easy terms that are picked up on the job. </p>
<p>If you want a job in sales than go ahead and get a marketing major. If you want to break in to advertising…pick something that allows you to express creativity thus giving companies something to hire you from.</p>