<p>Is it unusual to not have any interests besides making money? I've thought about it long and hard and I've come to the conclusion I don't enjoy any subjects by themselves. I like physics, chemistry, and computers, but I don't like one enough to major in it. I switched out of engineering because I thought it was incredibly boring and I knew you can't get rich being an engineer. I switched to computer science but I don't really want to sit in front of computers and develop arthritis, plus some people have said you grow obsolete as you grow older. The main reason I chose business is because it deals with money and when I think of money I think of cruises, fast cars, and mansions on the beach which is the most appealing to me and also easy classes. Actually I just wish there was a major in getting rich. I think I am ready to sell my soul in order to get rich. Come to think of it, I'm not looking forward to college because I know college trains you to be a middle class worker with middle class opportunities after graduating.</p>
<p>You are not going to find a career on this website which guarantees fast cars and mansions on the beach, let alone one which guarantees it without hard, probably boring work. </p>
<p>This website is good for people to find the most tolerable path towards a comfortable middle class life given the choices they have, perhaps with a slim chance at a very comfortable upper class life if they are a stellar performer(i.e. equity partner at a big firm or C-level executive somewhere). This website isn’t very good at telling people whether they should be a salaryman or teacher or yoga instructor or try to be the next Bill Gates. Your parents, your therapist, 4chan, anybody else is probably better for that.</p>
<p>You want to be rich so why not just go for it? Plenty of people in college around the states making millions whether its in real estates, stocks, their own business, or inventing a more efficient process. You just need to find out what you like, what you can do, what is profitable how you can make a million dollars and do what you gotta do. Business in undergrad won’t teach you anything, it will only give you a basic foundation.</p>
<p>Example.
If you can sell a pencil for 1 dollar profit and you can sell a million pencils. You will have a million dollars. Learning how to convince people to buy your pencil, getting the pencil manufactured, getting a distributor, keeping track of expenses, invoicing, making sure you are delivering on time, having a website, making sure you file your taxes properly, sales tax, inventory and have repeat customers. Thats real business.</p>
<p>Owning your own business is probably the most likely to land you into the wealthy upper class. However it is a high risk - high reward type of deal. There is a strong possibility that your business won’t take off and you will be left with lots of debt. And another thing, it will take a good deal of time, money, and effort to turn your business into a real money-making deal. </p>
<p>And perhaps you’ll like management better than the academia-esque work you can find as a college graduate in a major such as engineering or computer science.</p>
<p>“I switched out of engineering because I thought it was incredibly boring and I knew you can’t get rich being an engineer.”</p>
<p>What? Engineers make well over $70K and into six figures.</p>
<p>Besides that, if you’re just looking to get rich, you’re going to be spending about 70 hours in the office per week, and not have a lot of time to enjoy that money.</p>
<p>I wish there were more people like me who are actually INTERESTED in business/economics.</p>
<p>I’m interested in business and economics. Trust me though, the less young people out there who take an interest in subjects like that the better it is for us. Less competition.</p>
<p>The only way your gonna make a lot of money doing something is if your willing to devote your life to it…like JeremyS said…your gonna be spending a **** ton of hours in your office every week/weekends if you want to be rich…so you should probably find something you actually like doing. Passion = money. Without deddication your gonna get stomped on by all the other people in that business who do have passion</p>
<p>Define lucractive. If you mean a safe, upper middle class life, yes. If you don’t really enjoy the material (you think it’s boring) and/or you want to enjoy your time in college (you want to keep your sanity) then it’s not worth it…just major in something easy and make subsistence wages. It’s not like you’re gonna get super rich by being an engineer.</p>
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<p>You’re telling me most people follow their hearts instead of taking the easier path, the practical job that pays a lot? </p>
<p>Tell me I am naive, but doesn’t most of everything circulate around money?</p>
<p>waite…can you explain more what your saying? </p>
<p>and yes…our world, for the most part, revolves around money (or at least our world can only function properly as long as there is a monetary system)…but what’s your point?</p>
<p>Step 1: Look at all the possible majors at your school.</p>
<p>Step 2: Eliminate the ones you cannot do. That may mean art or music, or nuclear engineering. </p>
<p>Step 3: If you want to have at least a safe, middle class life, eliminate the ones that are unlikely to give you that(social work, anything with “Studies” in the name).</p>
<p>Step 4: Pick one of those that remain that you like. </p>
<p>If that doesn’t work for you…stop being stupid and trying to find meaning in a forum on some website about business majors. Read some Aristotle or Proust or Ayn Rand or whatever it is that you need to read. Talk to your parents, your priest, your therapist, etc.</p>
<p>The world is full of people who have decent jobs they work 40 hours a week at and find meaning in their children, spouses, etc. You cannot ask strangers on a website to tell you whether you will be such a person or not.</p>
<p>The thing is I have gone through the majors already too many times to count, and I’ve switched at least 20 times. I thought I should just pick something easy and generic like business. I was going to do physics/math but didn’t think it was practical enough and I don’t want to do it for a living.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t believe in religion and despise therapists.</p>
<p>Dude, jonahrubin, I hope you know that it’s not everybodies goal in life just to have an “average” job and an “average” family and an “average” life…some people want to do something more than that. Something above average</p>
<p>You also sound like a joy to be around “Also, I don’t believe in religion and despise therapists.” </p>
<p>And TJENGLUND he did not ONCE state that everybody wanted a 9-5 M-F job…Seriously, how did you get that from what he wrote? You keep quoting average like he said it, but I don’t see that… any where. So, what are you ranting about?</p>