<p>Well, any major or job doesn't have to land a career that makes close to as good money as a business major. I just found out that the engineering major is probably not going to be likely for me as I am just starting out, but I am already a junior at the university. So it might be too late for me to retake any classes if I ended up as an engineering major.</p>
<p>So I might decide to do business. But the thing is I never enjoyed my econ classes much. Though I do enjoy wrestling with numbers like fractions and decimals. And I heard that an Information Systems major is not good enough to get a job. And I really wanted to work with computers. </p>
<p>But I don't know if I'll enjoy business, but I guess it's flexible.</p>
<p>Other majors might be more interesting though, but they sadly don't have a clear career path. Any ideas on what other non-business majors I can do that can lead to stable and decent paying jobs?</p>
<p>"Business" is too broad a term to really be meaningful. A lot depends on what you want to do. If you really aren't enjoying the quantitative work, you probably don't want to go into market research or finance or accounting. If you really enjoy the strategy of business, then you might have fun with strategic marketing planning or the other qualitative work (which is just as important.) Try interning this coming summer and see what you enjoy. Then you can make a decision your junior year.</p>
<p>I, for one, would not really be a happy accountant, so I'm not interested in applying for the Big 4 and all of them. No shame in that.</p>
<p>Right, but i-banking is only one very SMALL part of business. Sure, it's the one that gets the most publicity on this site and on others online because of its popularity and "sexiness," but it's just one component of business.</p>
<p>The best thing to do now, in my mind, is go find an internship.</p>
<p>Just remember that a major doesn't get you a job. Employers don't look at your resume and see "business major" and start drooling. It's you that gets the job.</p>
<p>But some arrogant engineering majors claim that in an economic downturn, engineers are safe from getting laid off than business administrators hahaha. Is that true? I'm afraid that this may apply to liberal arts majors too.</p>
<p>I'm not really a fan of economics. I took micro and macro economics and the class was okay, the professor was cool, but the lectures were dry, and I was bored. This is just the introduction courses, so let me know if it gets more interesting. Of course this all depends on the person. This other econ major named dodgerblue in the business forum says it's hard for econ majors to maintain a gpa, and says political science is the way to go to get good grades and just to keep up to date with finance articles and such. I don't want to do that, cause I don't really read about finance or economics in my free time. Do you guys find that interesting?</p>
<p>Ah that's unfortunate to hear. I actually thought it would be the most interesting business related major, and all business majors can overlap. Is finance more boring than economics though? I like the idea of predicting and making graphs on the behavior of consumerism a little, but the professor I had spaced out too much and made it slow.</p>
<p>Well, since you don't want engineering, I think Computer Science/MIS are good-paying majors. Finance and accounting are also very good. Math majors can also make some pretty good money. But, don't do a job because you just make lots of money. You need to enjoy it too (I'm not saying that you should do the job that will only make you happy, but force you to live out of a box; you need to strike a balance).</p>
<p>That's great and all to advance and have ambitions to grow in a career, so you don't have to do boring work, but I don't plan on ever going back to school to complete a graduate education. I don't plan on having an extravagant lifestyle, I have simple needs believe it or not. I'm just probably going to take care of my parents. Not the typical life anyone would be open to say, but that's just me. So, yes, I would like to do something I like, but at this stage, I don't have time to experiment with engineering, science, or computer science, because I already failed C++ and dropped chemistry, though both subjects are fine, I end up being at school at 9-12 hours almost per day, and staring at the computer all day burns me out for some reason, cause I try to think of what code to come up with. The ideas and learning they teach is fine though. I was bored with the intro economics courses, but finance doesn't sound like a prestigious careers than economics. I'd like to analyze stuff, things I learned from my math/science and computer science courses. But with less chances of failing in the upper division. Literature is also good, but those who don't want jobs.</p>
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<p>This is a vague "what if" scenario that you can't apply to every situation.</p>
<p>I'd say you really oughtn't let your desire to be paid well dictate what you do in college-- you should just do what you really want to do rather than what you think people will want you to do.</p>
<p>Sounds trite, I know, but it's still a good idea nevertheless.</p>
<p>Well, I do sometimes have a fascination with life, be it organisms, animals, and so forth. I would like to major in biology or chemistry to learn about them, cause even though they have stupid names to memorize, it would probably be more interesting than business. I also wonder if science has problem solving skills like Computer Science that would be valuable, so if they do, I'm not sure why those who have a bachelor's in science would not find many job opportunities like accounting.</p>
<p>engineers make a lot, but will only drastically increase their salary if they pursue a business related degree (i.e. MBA) and enter into the business side of things. engineers can pretty much do a ton of careers, which is why many engineers at schools like MIT are going into consulting or finance jobs. engineering is the collection of the toughest majors, yet in the long run they probably lose out to business majors, b/c engineering firms are relatively cheap and dont pay engineers what they deserve, hence the move of engineers coming from elite schools to financial fields. and when i mean elite schools i mean schools that are good not just for engineering but are overall a good school. an engineer from penn will have a better chance at a broader range of careers right out of college than a purdue grad, b/c even tho purdue engineering is ranked higher, a student from penn will on average be more intelligent than a purdue person.</p>
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<p>I've read this three times already and it still doesn't make any sense. If Purdue is ranked higher than Penn for engineering, then obviously the Penn students do not have an upper hand over the Purdue students in that department.</p>
<p>You're ignoring the fact that it's still harder to get into Penn, even for a "worse" department. There's also the fact that most people don't know how good Purdue is at engineering. They just see Penn (Ivy) vs. Purdue (non-Ivy.) It's not fair, but it is what it is.</p>
<p>And you're ignoring the fact that smart engineering students are going to pick the best engineering school that they can go to. If Purdue is higher ranked in engineering than Penn, then they are probably going to go to Purdue.</p>
<p>I don't think engineers really give a rat's ass about the school's rankings outside of their department, and they shouldn't. If it's a great engineering school and they will have a career lined up after they graduate, why should they care?</p>
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<p>BS. People inside the engineering field WILL know how good Purdue is for engineering. They don't care if it's an Ivy League school or not. You don't compare Ivy vs. non-Ivy for the majority of engineering fields.</p>
<p>I get tired of some of the posts on here that make it sound like you have to go to an Ivy in order to be successful at anything, and that's simply not true at all.</p>