<p>hi! i'm an incoming senior and i've been battling with myself over what I'd like to pursue. my parents immigrated here from Poland and they didn't go to college so i'm basically on my own. id appreciate any help!! In 8th grade i applied for a broadcasting/film&media academy and got accepted. i've stuck with it ever since and i thought that was what i wanted to try in college. However, now i personally think it's too risky and unreliable. the only thing i'd try with that is marketing but even that's fairly unreliable. on the other hand, i've always loved math and i finished calc ab with an A, but i haven't gotten the ap score back yet. Another class i really enjoyed was honors chem sophomore year (most kids said my teacher treated it as an ap class; only 4 kids got an A). Next year i'm taking civil engineering, ap calc bc, and ap chem and I'm fairly sure i'll enjoy it. i would love to take a programming class but it's not an honors credit. i realize that sounds absurd but i'm fighting for a high class rank spot and trying to keep up my gpa. i currently have a 4.8 gpa (weighted) and 4.0 (unweighted). Class rank: 4 out of 700. i'm in a lot of extracurriculars... track, nhs, student ambassador, mathletes ect.. i started working at tj maxx a year ago. i'm really personable and outgoing. Fluent in polish (it was my 1st language) and I've taken 5 years of spanish (i don't consider myself fluent at all but i can pick it up). Basically i'm at a loss of what i should try. i know i've got it narrowed down to a math/science/engineering career but i'd like to know what kind of wacky majors there are and what classes you take with them. i'm fairly certain i can handle most things because i'm extremely motivated and a demanding high school schedule has taught be to be efficient. i'd love to have a major that has a math emphasis. you're probably saying major in math then but i don't want to be a teacher or an accountant. my dream job is to work at google (ill settle for a less established company lmao) or in a lab, something along those lines. if you guys have any majors that you think i would enjoy based off this, feel free to share! thank you (:</p>
<p>Dude, dont do any sciences. it sounds to me that your true interest lays on the opposite side of the spectrum. what i have to suggest is finance major than work for a few years than go back for an MBA program. judging from your interests you would probably like something such as fashion design, for fashion design you should probably take a few classes in school for visual art to go along with a finance major and you could find yourself managing a fashion company in a few years.</p>
<p>that said if your interests have truly changed, i suggest going to school for computer science, keep in mind you really need a Masters or PHD to even get hired at the major software firms with a chance of advancement.</p>
<p>Wacky majors with bad job prospects:
geology
molecular biology
zoology
astrophysics
hydrology
astronomy
physics
psychology</p>
<p>wacky majors with “eh” prospects:
chemistry
biology
biochemistry
meteorology
environmental science
philosophy</p>
<p>Majors with good prospects:
all engineering
computer science
all business majors (outside of the crazier ones)
The Trades
The professional schools
IT
Medicine
(im going to get a lot of flak for this) any AAS degree (you have to work harder with an associates, but may save a lot of money in the long run)</p>
<p>really, dont go to school for the money. if you want to be a producer, be a producer. if you want to be a programmer, be a programmer. simple as that.</p>
<p>Chemistry and biology are generally regarded as having worse job prospects than physics, but mainly because physics majors more easily find jobs in computers or finance (as opposed to physics). The same goes for math majors. Statistics majors often aim specifically for finance or actuarial jobs.</p>
<p>lol, on the fashion design–where did that come from?</p>
<p>Math majors are not trained to be accountants. Accounting is in the business dept. All business people need to understand accounting at some level. It isn’t as dull as it sounds, and it isn’t bookkeeping–it is more analysis than that.</p>
<p>You might be interested in data analytics, business intelligence or data science. Marketing people with data skills are in demand and you can do that with an undergrad degree. All these clicks with mouses have meaning. Data scientists seems to need advanced degrees but there are a couple of universities who have opened undergrad programs. Actually I have seen that Quora hires undergrad cs people in that area. Basically they are more math than a cs major and more cs than a statistics major. My dd was a math/cs major and did grad work in machine learning and is employed as a data scientist. They are employed in a very wide domains: tech, finance, govt, nonprofits, sciences, security, fraud detection. Some astrophysicists are data scientists in their domain and some have gone into tech as data scientists. Jobs can range from more cs oriented as in building the infrastructure, to more business oriented such as developing products from data insights. But they all know how to program. It is sort of an emerging field under this name. Of course companies employ many more CS people than data scientists. Google employs them, (but the people I know who work at google majored in cs, sociology and art history.) Google actually developed a platform to manage Big Data that is open source. Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Msft, Spotify, so many companies use data science. Please don’t try to educate yourself to make yourself an employee for one company that maybe the last great thing by the time you graduate, what will be the next big thing? Open you eyes there is a bigger world out there than just Google, as great as it may be.</p>
<p>A quick search on Indeed turned up jobs working for private company dealing with govt data access and working with Columbia U Institute of Data Science, mobile gaming company looking for DS to optimize game playing habits, education, microsoft, intel, a couple of startups, Dropbox, a medical imaging company and more just on the first page. Interesting.</p>