<p>I'm currently majoring in English Literature and planning to go to Law School in a few years. I have decided to double major so that if in a few years I decided that I know longer want to do Law i'll have something to fall back on. A fe people have given me some ideas on what my second major should be, but I don't know a lot about each major yet. Heres the ideas people have given me so far:</p>
<p>Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
Economics</p>
<p>What I want to know now is, can these majors stand on their own? Most people only gave me these and told me that they would help with law. Take away the fact that i'm doing law. If I was just majoring in one of these, could they be 1)Lead to a decent career? Its fine if I won't be super rich. AND 2)Give me decent job opportunities? The best that can be expected.</p>
<p>Feel free to give me any other good Major ideas that can stand by themselves.</p>
<p>NOTE:If a major might require me to go to Grad School to get a good job with it I have no problem with that so you can put majors like that down as an idea.</p>
<p>ALSO, just so you know I don't really care too much for math. So i'd appreciate if the major you suggest wouldn't require me to spend most of my time in a math course.</p>
<p>The only one worth doing is economics even though you could do way better. the other three are absolute CRAP. And if you don’t like math you probably won’t be able to survive upper-div economics, lin alg, etc.</p>
<p>I would strongly advise adding a more tangible skill set that would make you more attractive to employers. For example: computer science, web design, teaching and maybe even a medical administration program or human resources.</p>
<p>Translation: I’m a haughty STEM major who feels insecure about the Social Sciences. Here’s a tip anti, don’t trash Psych majors, kaaay? </p>
<p>OP, if you’re looking to suppliment your law schooling, Philosophy is the way to go because a lot of Philosophy majors end up doing it for law school since it teaches you to think logically. Trouble is it won’t really do much on its own, it’s a stepping stone major for Law more than anything - maybe consider minoring in it. On their own Psychology and Sociology are able to stand up, although unless you’re planning on getting a Ph.D/Psy.D Psychology isn’t quite as useful as Sociology which I believe would allow you to get a human services type job with just a BA. But if you’re willing to do graduate school, Psychology is a lot of fun, a fantastic career choice, and the worst math you really do is Statistics and maybe some Calculus.</p>
<p>Antipacifist- Better how? If you know of better majors then please share them with me. Right now i’m open to almost anything. If math is required i’ll do it. I just won’t enjoy it.</p>
<p>cbug-I actually thought about teaching the other day. They don’t do too bad all things considered. But if I really want to teach couldn’t I just go do it in Grad school?</p>
<p>Itachirumon-Yeah, i’ve been looking and both Sociology and psychology look like they could put me in a pretty good position.</p>
<p>JaneofLeiden-LOL, I think that there might be too much math in there. Like isn’t it basicall all math?</p>
<p>^Or he could do Psychology, become a counselor or go the route I’m going and become a neuropsychologist, the study of the mind is fascinating. Maybe become that person who finds how to cure Alzheimers or MS. It’d take grad school before it would really start paying off but if he’s dedicated, it’s an interesting field and in high enough demand that he should be able to find employment.</p>
<p>Depends on what branch, some Psychologists barely make 30k starting, honestly. But if you’re talking like Biopsych/Neurology, yeah they can break 100k, there’s one other branch that is (albeit a bit surprising if I remember) REALLY valuable so they make like…big bucco bucks.</p>
<p>Economics is not a thinking or logic-intensive degree but they are making more than any other liberal arts majors currently are. They are in high-ish demand, though less than engineering, etc. I would NOT major in psych unless you were prepared to be literally jobless for at least 6-7 years.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean anything bad, just that it doesn’t require truly higher order thinking skills required for many advanced math classes that are just absent with your typical econ degree.</p>
<p>^Yeah, only STEM majors get jobs, everybody else will become worthless fry cooks, at least if we’re going by his logic. </p>
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<p>Show me the research that says you’re not just blowing that number out of your butt Anti. By the time you’ve earned your Ph.D you’ve had to intern for upwards of 3000-something hours which is about 1.5 years at 40 hours/week. I’m pretty sure unless you’re feeding the clients cyanide in drinking water they’d probably hire you on full-time once you get your degree. Plus there are a large number of research grants that also come with the territory because by the time you’ve reached Ph.D level you’ve almost certainly done professional/published research with professors. That’s how you pad your Vitae and get respect in the field.</p>
<p>So it seems like the best choices would be Economics or Psychology and maybe Sociology. Out of curiosity, What can you do with a Philosophy degree?</p>