<p>Hello people I'm hoping you can help me with my dilemma. I started out freshman year as a premed and biology major and quickly learned that wasn't for me. Now lets fast forward to my junior year. I am double majoring in international studies (global health) and communication studies and I'm minoring in French and Anthropology. I love all of my classes and I am excelling far more than I was in my premed classes. I studied abroad in France over the summer and I'm looking for an internship for this school year or next summer. I still really worried about graduating and not finding a job! I love my degrees and minors, but I wonder if they are useless. I am afraid of not finding a job with a good salary to pay back my loans. Should I have stayed a premed major? Or should I try to do another major before it's too late?</p>
<p>First off, you have to understand that premed isn’t a degree and it certainly doesn’t guarantee you entry into med school. It’s basically a way of saying “I’d like to go to med school so these are the classes I’ll be taking.” You were basically a bio major which is not a fast track to a great job and studies have born this out.</p>
<p>That said, your current path is not either. But don’t despair. I read an article earlier this summer in the Wall St. Journal about a study that was done in which a large number of fictitious college grads “applied” for jobs. Some resumes showed internships, some did not. A wide variety of majors were represented, some presumably “employable” and some not, like psych or English. Interestingly, the largest determinent in whether the “applicant” was invited to interview was NOT major or GPA. It was the presence of an internship on their resume. Very surprising to the researchers!</p>
<p>Your majors do not lead clearly to one specific career path, which in the mind of many people is a good thing as it allows you flexibility. But the problem with too much flexibility is that you can find yourself not knowing where to look - floundering. My advice to you is to make your single biggest priority the getting of an internship, even if unpaid. Job experience in the real world immediately rises your boat above the teaming hordes of your peers with similar academics but summers spent as a lifeguard or skateboarder.</p>