<p>Occdom4, my husband is in touch with lots of friends (thanks to Facebook) that he went to college with in theater. Only a tiny few have actually ended up --now in their 50’s-- making their living in theater. But, as with your husband’s experience none of them regrets their undergrad major in the least and in fact just treasure the college experience they had. We personally know former theater majors who are now in finance, teaching, real estate, nonprofit administration, video production, stay-at-home parents, a grant writer, an arborist, and even one who’s a minister. I believe they all have valued their varied life paths!</p>
<p>My first major was Forest Engineering and my first job was in the field for a forest products company. I then got a graduate degree majoring in Finance with an Accountng minor. My next job was in acounting and now I work in investments.</p>
<p>College teaches you to learn… so it is good prep for any career, even if not directly related to the major. </p>
<p>I majored in engineering (with a minor in tech communications). Like many engineers, I didn’t use the specific skills from all the classes. But engineering coursework teaches you to be a problem solver, and that is useful for almost any job. (If the engineering school encourages collaborative project like many now do… even better!)</p>
<p>Me:
1st career: BA in Economics/Political Science; job in government intelligence
2nd career: MBA in International Business; job in international corporate banking
3rd career: Masters in Divinity; job as a pastor
4th career: working on PhD in Religion; anticipated job as college professor</p>
<p>Husband:
One field = lots of different jobs
BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science; jobs in programming & design, consulting, college professor, video game designer and now - director of user experience for video game publisher (ended up in field that did not exist when he got his degrees)</p>
<p>I did my undergrad in engineering and worked as such for many years. During that period I obtained an MBA and have remained with my original company, but working in marketing and management jobs. My wife got her BA is History and English and initially went to work in financial services which she did not like. She went back to school studying elementary education and has been a teacher since then. My oldest sister majored in political science and went to work in advertising. After a short time she went to law school and has worked as an attorney since then. My youngest sister did her BS in accounting and then immediately went to law school and has only worked as a lawyer. My son did his BS in political science (with minors in economics and music) and now works in the music recording industry. And my daughter is currently majoring in physics and plans to go to grad school and become a physicist. So, in my family it is a mixed bag of alignment between undergrad major and ultimate career.</p>
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<p>Yes. In my case it was jobs and majors.</p>
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<p>That’s a pretty varied list of majors with widely varying degrees
of difficulty. What do you enjoy doing?</p>
<p>Do you have a list of reasons for and against those majors? Do you
have an idea of what people in the working world do with those majors?
The folks here could probably help you more in narrowing down a major
based on information about you; specifically what you like or don’t
like and what you think you’d like to do.</p>
<p>Poli Sci undergrad with strong interest in political advertising. Applied and accepted to law school, switched to MBA at the last minute in early twenties and have been in Marketing, Advertising or Commications in some shape or form ever since. Love what I do and can’t imagine doing anything else. I’m the renegade, siblings were all engineers and are still in engineering/managerial/technology related jobs.</p>
<p>BS Biophysics, BSEE, MS Information systems.</p>
<p>Always worked as engineer except taught a couple Computer classes at a JC, and tutored SAT for a while.</p>
<p>Although I’ve worked as an engineer by title, I haven’t always used my course material. My current job as a government energy regulator is probably only about 10% technical.</p>
<p>Me, BS in psychology, minor computer science. Jobs in contract negotiations in the IT industry.
DH MA in public administration, career in Federal Gov.
S1 BA in international politics, first job Border Patrol., now law school. </p>
<p>Yes, yes and yes for doing it over.</p>
<p>Sort of.</p>
<p>I have bachelor’s and master’s degrees in two different scientific fields, and I work as a science writer. My science background has been very helpful to me in my career.</p>
<p>But I have never taken a writing course, and I stumbled into my occupation after getting laid off from a job doing something else back in 1980. I never intended to work in this field, and I never made any deliberate effort to prepare for it. I had something else in mind, and it didn’t work out.</p>
<p>I was a Biology major now teach
DH marketing finance major owns his own business</p>
<p>wow, thank you all for your input. in conclusion it looks like it could go either way; you could major in something and pursue an unrelated career (even in the tech/sci disciplines) and vice versa.</p>
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<p>as for me:</p>
<p>[ul][li]geography: i feel like this is a field “inbetween” something “tech/sci heavy” and the humanities. i’m generally interested in it and could see myself as a cartographer or something. and i’m good at it.[/li][li]economics: i only like the skills this field will teach me (analyzation, etc). i think it will help me in grad school if i decide to pursue biology. [/li][li]computer science: no explanation here, just interested/good at it, to a certain extent[/li][li]biology: want to go into marine biology/oceanography for grad school. [/li][*]communications: i already made up my mind and instead of majoring in this, i’ll just take courses in it. [/ul]</p>
<p>100% in line with my main major. 30 years and I still enjoy it.</p>
<p>Yup! English major, English PhD, English professor.</p>
<p>H: Business/Marketing major owns his own business. Earned MA in Liberal Studies and MFA in Photography. Is a photographer.</p>
<p>tower7, It seems to me that Geography and Biology are where your interests really lie. Is it possible to do a major and a minor? </p>
<p>One thing you’ll want to look into is what classes do most programs expect you to have taken in order to begin grad school as a Marine Biology/Oceanography major. Knock those out during your undergrad and you won’t have to spend time/money leveling up before starting grad school.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>I majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. (My advice to any kid who wants to do this: Don’t.)</p>
<p>For the past 30-plus years, I have worked as an advertising copywriter.</p>
<p>Not too close a correlation there, LOL!</p>
<p>My D has switched out of engineering and will be attending local university. Her major is tentatively set as Encomics, but she is still exploring.</p>
<p>We found out the the university counseling office can arrange for student to take the “Strong Interest Inventory”. You may want to check if your school does same.
<a href=“https://www.cpp.com/products/strong/index.aspx[/url]”>The Myers-Briggs Company;
<p>I was a Psych major who went to work for a major bank right out of college. They were looking for college graduates but didn’t care about the major - we learned all on the job. It’s funny but my close friends from work were a music major, a french major and an art history major. A few years ago I went back to school to get a teaching credential.</p>
<p>Yes, both DH and I majored in our career areas in undergrad and got advanced degrees in the field as well. He is in IT (computers), I am in healthcare.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting one-- older S majored in Mechanical Engineering and is working as such at the corp hqtrs of a large company. When he was home last summer cleaning stuff out of his room, he found an autobiography he wrote for a school project in the 5th grade. In that autobiography he had written (none of us had recalled this, including him) that he wanted to be a mechanical engineer!!! :eek: Who in 5th grade even knows wht the heck that is???</p>
<p>We both went more or less into our college fields: I was a journalism major and have had a career as a writer, editor and now publisher; my husband was a film major and is now a television editor. We both regret having such narrow majors-- if I were to do it again I’d probably be a psych major and minor in journalism. I could have gotten all the basic skills as a minor. But my major did help prepare me for my professional life.</p>