What are some majors and jobs in business?

<p>I'm way over my head, and totally confused.</p>

<p>I see here that a lot of people have questions about investment banking, how realistic is it to be a successful investment banker? Yes, I do realize things in IB aren't that good right now. What about IM?</p>

<p>What does consulting mean?</p>

<p>What are some jobs in business? What are some good majors? </p>

<p>The ones around me are business admin with emphasis on X, I heard a lot of people say that everyone has this major and that I will find a hard time trying to find a job and that this major is not very useful/ practical and that I will have to do a lot to stand out.</p>

<p>I'm good with managing people/money and that's what I want to do. I want to do something that gets me a good paycheck, though I do realize I probably won't reach this goal or things won't be perfect.</p>

<p>Here are my interests</p>

<p>Managing people, money, etc.
International business and international business relations
Politically involved things
Marketing
Creating innovating ideas and finding loop holes.
Finding what consumers want
Forex
Commodities trading
Investment funds
Hedge funds
Consulting
Being an Analyst
Arbitrage trading</p>

<p>I've read about a number of famous people involved in business, there aren't a lot of information for what they majored in for example wikipedia says someone like George Soros majored with something to do with economics/law</p>

<p>Then he worked as an arbitrage trader with F. M. Mayer from 1956 to 1959 and as an analyst with Wertheim and Company from 1959 to 1963.</p>

<p>Does an economics give you the skills to be a trader like that? </p>

<p>I've also read on someone like Reggie Fils-Aime, who the COO of nintendo. How did he get a job like this when he majored in Applied economics?</p>

<p>I'm a bit interested in doing jobs like managing people in game related companies. Though this isn't a major thing. I'd take a job anywhere.</p>

<p>One of the business professors at my school gets paid (a lot) to do statistical analysis on current and prospective players for the Dallas Mavericks for 3 months out of the year. Is this a game related company you were talking about?</p>

<p>One of the business professors at my school gets paid (a lot) to do statistical analysis on current and prospective players for the Dallas Mavericks for 3 months out of the year. Is this a game related company you were talking about?</p>

<p>That COO was just an example, but he is a COO in a video game related company, you know, nintendo? I mentioned that.</p>