<p>I am a double major: Economics and History. I want to go to law school, but I might work for a couple years before going.</p>
<p>What can I do with an Economics degree? ( I won't bother asking what I can do with a History degree...as much as I love it.)</p>
<p><a href="http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm%5B/url%5D">http://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Econ.stm</a></p>
<p>What can't you do with an econ degree?</p>
<p>Ok, so most are financial analysts. Well, I am over halfway done with my degree, and I swear I have learned nothing remotely relevant to this. I hope the jobs provide training? lol</p>
<p>Haha, I wouldn't worry about it. Econ provides skills and tools for ton of different things.</p>
<p>There are several paths... many econ majors actually do go to law school and become lawyers. Many others will go into business, financial services and the such, although as NeedAdvice points out, economics doesn't necessarily relate very closely to these types of careers. Many econ majors will go into government, or work at some sort of NGO, like the UN or Oxfam, doing economic analysis. Still more will get their PhD and become econ professors. These are some of the jobs that very directly use economics or build off economics, but economics majors do pretty much anything and everything. Does that answer your question?</p>
<p>to succeed with economic major, what do I need to do?</p>
<p>In what sense?</p>
<p>to make lots of money(i mean, to be very rich)</p>
<p>Um, well, that's sort of a little superficial, and blunt, but I guess it's a valid question. If you are an Econ major at a top school, and get very good grades, then you will be able to get into Harvard business school. If you have a Harvard MBA, and are a dynamic person, then you will be able to get a good job at a firm in New York- financial services, hedge funds, investment banking, etc. You will most likely be very rich if you are willing to work hard in these jobs. Alternatively, you could take your econ BA and get a law degree, and become a rich lawyer. Or you could not go to graduate school, and get a respectable job- though it will not be nearly as high paying as if you had a grad degree. Another route, although this is more long term, would be to start off- with or without an econ degree- in the public sector, work for a while there, and then move into consulting or something. Larry Meyers, a former Fed governor, and I'm sure econ major, went from working for the Federal reserve- where he made OK money- to some sort of investment bank, consulting on fed activities. He's making a ton of money, because he has the inside scoop on the public sector, which has a big impact on the private sector. Although he has a PhD also... so go to grad school. Oh, and you can also be highly paid as an econ professor. There's an econ professor at NYU who makes $500,000 a year, plus income from books and the such. And the Nobel is up to, I think $1.3 million, so that's a lucrative option as well.</p>
<p>i am senior now at xxxx state school and economic major. but i really do not like economics and am not interested in learning economics at all. i do not understand almost anything in economic classes, except for very basic demand and supply curve from ec201 & 202. i mean, understanding the economic is just hard for me. i don't know why. but, i really like math(finished up to cal4(differential equation, all4.0pt) what do I need to do to like economics? please help, your anwers will be most-highly appreciated!</p>
<p>Ummm.... if you don't like economics, and you aren't good at it, then why do you care so much? And why the hell are you an econ major? I don't mean to be blunt, it's just that I don't understand. Since you like math, maybe you just have to take an econ class that approaches it mathematically. But liking econ isn't necessarily a prerequisite for making a lot of money- there's not that much overlap between economics and business. It's sort of like physics and engineering- engineering couldn't exist without physics, but you really don't need to know all the physics to be a good engineer.</p>
<p>........thanks</p>
<p>do i need to change major to engineering?, or, which one is better? grad school or MBA after economic degree</p>