<p>Hey guys. I'm a college freshman currently majoring in business, but honestly I'm more undecided than anything. I'm really leaning towards something business related like accounting, marketing, or economics but I don't know a lot about what that kind of life would be like and if I would enjoy it. </p>
<p>I just wanted to hear from everyone here why you chose or are choosing a business major.</p>
<p>If you're still in school, what are your goals and what drew you to business? </p>
<p>If you've already gone through schooling and have a business profession, what's your job like and why do you enjoy it?</p>
<p>If you're a downer and want to talk about how much better you think engineering or pre-med are, whatever that's cool too.</p>
<p>Honestly, I think I most people choose business because they didn’t have any passions back in high school and just wanted to go into the working world wearing suits and fancy pants. From my time here in college, I learned that business is largely ******** and just a way to lure kids into coming to college. Accounting may be something that you need to learn but other fields of business isn’t necessary to be placed in a college-setting.</p>
<p>If you’re a person who wants to make the most out of a college education and actually learn deeply of a subject, I suggest you switch out of business now. You have all your life to “learn” business. You will end up managing people or making pitch books and cold calls to market to people and you don’t need college to tell you how to do this. BUT, other stuff you will never get an actual chance to learn again, stuff like physics, mathematics, philosophy… etc. That’s what a college education is for. </p>
<p>It’s your call whether you want to pay for an education you will only go through once in your life or for just a brand name on the resume.</p>
<p>The above advice only applies if you go to an Ivy League school. If you go to anything below that getting a degree in philosophy will get you a job at Starbucks. </p>
<p>I love finance and that is what I studied. I also enjoy a multitude of things and took classes on them. Just because you major in something does not mean you cannot learn other things. </p>
<p>Also, people putting down a business education is ridiculous. Some people actually enjoy business. No one major is better than any other. Do what you enjoy.</p>
<p>I can agree with math and physics since those are quantitative but philosophy and other “liberal arts”? Give me a break. </p>
<p>I am studying finance and I love it. There’s a lot of ******** in it, yes, but I find what I’m learning a lot more applicable and relevant to what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life compared to the stuff I learn in something like econ where I’m studying theoretical gobbledygook like “utility curves”, which are hard to use in real life. It really depends on you though. If you are the type of person that enjoys learning theories and learning how to problem solve using those concepts, then go for non-vocational majors. If you want to learn things that will be more directly applicable to your job, then go for a more vocational focus. However, don’t think that you can’t take any physics, etc. just because you’re a finance major. Sure, you won’t be an expert in fourier transformations, but you can still get a good grasp of it in whatever electives you take outside of business coursework</p>
<p>Hmm… it was a pretty bad idea to post anti-business thoughts on a business forum… lol… I apologize to anyone that I’ve offended and I take back my original statement about people choosing business because they got nothing else. I’m sure some of them have a genuine interest in business.</p>
<p>I think my post was mainly a rant on a harsh reality of today’s college institution. It’s true that business is a more lucrative or at least financially safer degree than most liberal arts or science degrees. And I’m sure most people desire a decent job after college, but not everyone has a straight-up passion for business. This forces people to make a decision between studying what they want to do but have a riskier future versus going into a major they dislike for the sake of a job. This kind of pressure creates a sort of stifling environment rather than a stimulating one that colleges should provide. But, of course, for those who truly enjoy business more than any other subject have the best of both worlds.</p>