<p>What to do after undergraduate? Careers? Job outlook? Graduate school? (Outside of the more practical - e.g. poli sci and econ.) </p>
<p>What happens to us?!</p>
<p>Besides, pre-law and M.A./PhD programs/Academia and teaching in H.S.</p>
<p>Please quell my worries... lest I change majors now (which I don't want to but if I must...).</p>
<p>i already have it bookmarked :(</p>
<p>Good! I've worked in a coffee-shop before. I suppose I can learn to make a green-tea frapp in no-time while talking about the fall of the Roman Empire. I'm sure all would appreciate it Thanks Jack! :(</p>
<p>do what you love....don't be carried away with career goals, just follow your nose and fall in love with life.</p>
<p>A bit tough when the idea of debt and wasting time is hanging its sword over your head.</p>
<p>Peace Corps then government job or grad school. Or grad school DURING the Peace Corps and going straight to a higher level Peace Corps job. Orrr, since my senior thesis will be on water and social policy in Latin America, maybe corporate responsibility.</p>
<p>Concentrations don't matter even half as much as most undergraduates seem to think provided you get a good liberal arts education.</p>
<p>Can you please elaborate modestmelody lest I drown under the weight of the sheet of paper that states that I have successfully endured 4 years worth of work in an immediately-non-practical in terms of acquiring knowledge but not-necessarily skills (reading, writing, thinking, etc.) major? I would much appreciate it... with the nuance of explaining "being able to sell-yourself" and this idea or concept of "work-experience," "people you know," and "'good' references."</p>
<p>Essentially, what you majors in matters nothing. What you do during your college time- jobs, internships, research, etc- is all that really matters.</p>
<p>In that case, post #3 of this thread is still relevant and immediately applicable. Thank you for tying things together. :)</p>
<p>COllege-time jobs, internships, and research don't matter necessarily either.</p>
<p>The fact that you have a degree is enough for most employers in most fields. In everything but the most professional/technical fields, a degree is more than enough prep if it comes from a well-regarded university.</p>
<p>I got a good job as an insurance adjuster and I was a humanities and social sciences major. Your major really doesn't matter unless you SPECIFICALLY want to be an engineer or computer programmer of some sort.</p>
<p>How can you do Grad School during a Peace Corps assignment? You're most likely in a third-world country!</p>
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<p>There are some pretty glaring exceptions to that, like anything in the math (not necessarily including business/accounting I suppose) or science fields. Excluding those it's a bit more accurate.</p>
<p>One recent graduate in anthropology (a friend of my son's) is working for an international real estate consulting firm; my niece, with an English degree, is working as an editor in a publishing company; friend with a sociology degree is working in a college admissions office.</p>
<p>There are jobs -- good jobs -- for people with non-vocational track college degrees. They just don't come with pre-determined labels on them.</p>
<p>Was a sociology major; am now in medical school. I have plenty of friends in my med school class who majored in: poli sci, psychology, history, anthropology, English, Spanish, classics, medieval studies, and music performance.</p>
<p>Bigredmed, where they at the same time taking classes required for pre-med from the start, or did they end up taking those together at the end?</p>
<p>Spence discovered that even if education didn't contribute anything to an employee's productivity, good employees would still buy more education in order to signal their higher productivity to employers. (Economists sometimes call this the signalling hypothesis in education, often cited as a reason why government should not subsidize higher education for workers: more education allows workers to be paid a higher wage but doesn't make society more productive.) Bad workers, for their part, would accept a lower wage rather than pay the higher price (for them) of getting more education. And employers, seeing that the education signal really is correlated to employee productivity, would condition their wages on the signal, offering better wages to those who had invested more in the signal. This is called a signalling equilibrium.</p>
<p>-from wikipedia</p>
<p>Most were taking the pre-med courses from the start, but my best friend who was the polisci major didn't decided on med school until late in her sophomore/early junior year, and ended up loading them all at the end, along with the MCAT/campus involvement/volunteering.</p>