I know that this would be something I would be really interested in. I would be okay with being a professor or lobbyist. But there’s just so many people who say that it would be a useless degree. What do you think? Is it worth it?
I don’t think that any accredited degree is useless; learning, work/studying, and knowledge are never useless. I also believe you should major in what you like.
If you had designs on Medicine, you’d want to meet pre-med requirements, but other than that – even for Law or Business school later – your undergraduate major wouldn’t preclude you from entrance.
Now – entering the work force with the degree in A-A studies, it might not be as easy to find a high-paying job as it would be with a CS, Finance or Engineering degree… but starting anywhere, and being smart and working hard, can get you into better positions down the road.
If you decide you want to pursue professorship, you work hard for your BA or BS so that you can get into a good PhD program.
To become a lobbyist, I believe you’d want to take some Poli Sci/Government, Marketing, Economics, US History, Communications, Math/Stats, Sociology/Demography, and Psychology courses – in other words, a broad education. You would also probably want to do a government and/or marketing internship. A government internship will show you the day-to-day workings of a legislator and a marketing internship will show you how to sell something to a target market. (as a lobbyist, the target market is the legislator…).
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