<p>Hello everyone.. I'm a senior in high school and I know I want to do something involving business or money, but I don't know exactly what field I should pursue.</p>
<p>I am relatively smart: 95 GPA and 1300 SAT. I was already accepted into the Univeristy of Scranton and they are offering me a scholarship of $12,000 a year, but I'm waiting to hear back from Villanova, my first choice.</p>
<p>the bottom line is that I want to make money. I am very good at math and I'm taking AP Calculus AB and AP Statistics this year. I don't know what I should major in at college, nor do I know what jobs have great salaries.</p>
<p>Also, I think I might like to invest a pretty significant amount of my money in stock once I start my career.</p>
<p>Most colleges have pretty strong career centers with advisors who can help you with this sort of thing. Most will, however, tell you to pursue what your passion rather than the money, so you'll probably want to take a few business classes and figure out which aspect of business you like best and then follow that. International business is really popular right now, so you shouldn't have much problem finding programs for that.</p>
<p>Basically, I would say try taking a wide variety of classes your freshman year (wherever you are), and keep an open discussion with your career center.</p>
<p>Well... I haven't the slightest idea what kind of business I "like" because I know nothing about any forms of it. I do know that I definitely want a money making job though... I mean, let's say I love video games. Does that mean I should become a video game tester?</p>
<p>you expect us to tell you what to do with the rest of your life? Seriously man, you're barely a senior in HS. Besides, you can't expect to post this question, have people spend time responding, and then you say that you have no idea if that's what you want to do. First, you need to figure out what YOU want to do with your life. </p>
<p>You like math and you want money? Become an Ibanker or something with finance. Or you could be some sort of engineer. Besides that, I don't know what to tell you, except don't worry about it so much.</p>
<p>I was in the same situation as you about a year ago. I wanted to make money, except I had a pretty clear idea what I wanted to do fresh out of college....I wanted to do investment banking. Investment banking generally pays the highest for someone fresh out of school, unless you can get into a hedge fund. But here's the thing, your interests will evolve through college. Like for me, the minute I got to college, I decided I didn't want to be an excel monkey for the first 5-6 years out of college and that I'd rather be a lawyer. I decided to go to law school and go for corporate law.</p>
<p>But if you like math and money, I'd say go for investment banking. Your interests WILL change many many times before you decide on one. I was kinda sorta ahead of the curve so I had that indecisive phase as a sophomore. But most people will have that phase in college. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>We can't tell you what to do, but if you really like traveling, I suggest you look into management consulting too. Or financial consulting. Look into litigation consulting as well-it's a rather esoteric and smaller subfield of economic consulting where basically you calculate damages for lawsuits, help lawyers prep for trial, prep witnesses, sometimes you get to depose people. It's a very interesting field, if you're also interested in the law.</p>
<p>You're welcome. You're free to PM me if you have more questions.</p>
<p>But once you make your decision, which I know you will, pretty soon, you need to be completely convinced in your mind that you've made the right choice. You also need to give it all you've got to achieve your choice. You can't be wishy-washy about it. If you're interested in business, there are some great podcasts from Wharton and Vanderbilt on iTunes that you can subscribe to. I just looked, and they also have podcasts from Harvard Law and Stanford Law. So look into those, to kind of like educate yourself.</p>
<p>Statistically, you're ahead of the curve. Most people will decide in college what they want or a couple years after college. There are also people who are 40 years old who aren't really sure what they want to do, and people like me who enter college already knowing what they want to do.</p>
<p>From a middle aged guy, who is in the energy business, lived and worked in alaska, russia, middle east etc. some advice</p>
<p>While I think some of the above advice is a little broad 'I-banking" is a stunningly varied field .. I would say generally agrees with my life experiences</p>
<p>What I would say is at this stage in life you immediate goal is not to determine what you want to do--but determine how you ar going to get information to make that decision. For example, try and work at a business estalbishment this summer---or just talk to people . If you are interested in 'business' ( I think most young people equate this with the quantitative stuff) then see about working in a bank or talk to a banker if you arent able to work. you may have higher aspirations, but it will give you a small window to look through and start thinking</p>