<p>When I got out of high school, I new I wanted to major in Sociology and work in a field with people. I never got online and researched it, I just knew I wanted to. I am 22 now, and took some time off. I am going back to start my last year in community college so I can transfer, but now I'm skeptical about my major. I been recently looking at these forums and see a lot of negative talk about a sociology degree. That made me consider business or econ since I have 5 years experience working in the finance field(Insurance Sales, and Bank Investments). I never wanted to have these types of jobs, they just got me by for the time. But I also don't want a worthless degree. Any Advice??</p>
<p>You will need to decide whether you want a “vocational” degree such as accounting or engineering that prepares you specifically for a job, or a liberal arts degree that needs to be coupled with internships and other preparation in order to land a good job. </p>
<p>By now, with 5 years experience behind you, you ought to have a good idea of whether you want to continue working in the finance field and also what degree(s) would be useful for entering good jobs.</p>
<p>Sociology is one of those degrees that is a bit of a grey area; it isn’t exactly vocational in the way that accounting or nursing degrees would be, since it is the preparation that many who enter social work and related fields have. Yet it does not exactly qualify you for a job.</p>
<p>My best suggestion is to visit the career center at your CC where you can work with a counselor to identify your interests and how to best pursue them.</p>
<p>Sociology is more in line with left wing political ideology than a real stand alone major that will lead to a job</p>
<p>Honestly, you need to figure out what you want to do with your degree before choosing your major. As a psychology major, I’m in a similar boat, stereotypically. A Bachelor’s in psych means almost nothing without graduate school in certain realms. However, as I want to become a clinical psychologist, a BA/BS in psychology is preferred. I would suggest you figure out what you want to do with your degree, and work backwards from that. </p>
<p>With that being said, I should also mention that you can do a lot more with a sociology degree than you would think. Many graduate school programs don’t care too much about what your major is in undergrad. This is why, for instance, you don’t have to have majored in legal studies as an undergraduate to be competitive to law schools. Furthermore, there are a good deal of organizations/businesses/etc. that are open to people of pretty much any major – consulting is one of the first fields of this type that pop into mind. And the thing about social science majors, like sociology, is that they are arguably applicable to many fields. So, although you don’t know too much about, say, marketing, you could argue that what you learned as a soc undergrad (how to construct and carry out research, etc.) puts you on par with mass media/communications/marketing majors applying for the same marketing job. In the end, it all depends upon what you want to do and how you can spin your undergrad and previous experience.</p>