Evaluating career prospects

^Of course, but trying to predict the future isn’t really going to help someone figure out their career prospects at graduation.

It’s not really possible to evaluate one’s job prospects in the future solely on the basis of one’s major, since 1) as others mentioned many jobs that current college students will be working 6-10 years from now probably don’t exist right now; and, more importantly, 2) jobs are filled on the basis of skills and potential and not solely major. I work at a technology company, and while we sure do have a lot of computer science majors, we have a LOT of majors in other fields, too.

The other question I have - more rhetorical and not directed at anyone here - is holy heck, if an engineering degree and a finance degree are shaky prospects in this year of our lord 2019, what can a kid major in without being accused of majoring in something ‘worthless’? Not everyone wants to study computer science. Which is good for society, since we need people to do other things besides build software, and practically speaking if we all switch to CS salaries in that field will collapse and in 10 years people will be telling kids not to major in CS (just like in 2004 when I started college, law school and real estate seemed like great ideas!)