<p>I will be a freshman this fall wiu a sociology major, but I'm not sure yet of what exactly I can do with it...</p>
<p>Your career doesn’t have to do with what you major in. Just use the school resources to get experience in the field you want to work in.</p>
<p>from an employer perspective, sociology is a largely worthless field of study which focuses on the study of things which should be common sense to anyone with half a brain by age 13. Men like food, people have feelings and societies interact based upon a number of factors… you get the drift.</p>
<p>The issue with your mindset is that you seem to think that certain jobs will magically be handed to you upon the completion of your degree. This is rarely the case(unless you want an exciting career in lower management at Walmart)</p>
<p>give these a read.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12580172-post11.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12580172-post11.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12589835-post13.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/12589835-post13.html</a></p>
<p>tldr: college is about using the opportunities presented to us, take advantage of them.</p>
<p>Nothing. What you planning to go into?</p>
<p>I can’t help but snicker at Sociology majors or Communications majors and stuff like that. ;D But honestly, it’s not the major that matters, but rather the classes you take and the experience gained from them.</p>
<p>@mintymint Well, let’s hope you feel the same way at the Sociology and Communications majors who’re jobless and broke about 120k after they finish college, but who are glad they learned important information and are happy to have gone through the experience.</p>
<p>Well I was planning to go on to law school after I graduate, but it’s hard to tell what will happen in four years so I wanted to major in sociology to maybe go into social work as a back up plan…but now I’m having second thoughts.</p>
<p>you actually learn a lot as a sociology major. Those who think otherwise are misinformed.</p>
<p>So what’s the problem? Why is the average salary of sociology major graduates not so great as that of other majors? Because students with low earning potential (creativity, social skills, determination) tend to major in sociology. Why do students with high earning potential tend to major in fields such as science, math, and engineering? Because these students with high earning potential can major in whatever they want. They could major in sociology and learn loads of interesting and useful information, but they can also learn loads of interesting and useful information by majoring in science, math, and engineering–noting that these majors tend to produce higher average salaries. If the average salary of a sociology major were high, that means those with high earning potential somehow decided to major in sociology more often. This means that the reason you “can’t do anything” with a sociology major is not because sociology as a field is useless, it’s because sociology major is a **** major because the students majoring in them are **** (from an economic point of view. not saying people are ****)</p>
<p>you know how they say people judge you by who you associate with? It’s exactly like that with majors and how people view you depending on your major.</p>