<p>I hesitate to post here, because I am not speaking from personal experience. However, I have many good friends who are unhappy lawyers and ex-lawyers. I would like to hear more from these professionals as my son thinks he would like to go to law school.</p>
<p>BTW, all of these individuals loved law school. Many went to the top schools and spent a great deal of money on their education. They are very successful in their practice but hate it. Many do not feel they can take off the "golden cufflinks" of high salaries and great benefits. </p>
<p>Many love debate, socratic dialogue, etc. but hate the "drafting" of legal documents. Many love litigation, but never see a courtroom. Those specializing in criminal law have different problems - they hate working with what they term "the scum of the earth". </p>
<p>Based upon what these individuals tell me, there is a huge disconnect between law school and the practice of law.</p>
<p>My mom majored in that **** and what a waste of time it was...she ended ditching the whole sociology thing and got a job as a professional speaker...lol..life's weird. you spend four yrs in college to learn your profession and it proves to be a huge waste in the end.</p>
<p>Seriously. My dad majored in music and now sells insurance and has put off buying a long-coveted bass guitar for some reason or other...too busy?</p>
<p>I would go for History and English. The classes might be interesting and you will learn a lot but in order for your English major to hold any value you need another major and or an masters degree. History, well unless you want to be a professor your major won't hold a lot of value.</p>
<p>It depends on what you would classify as "disappointing." Personally, if I wanted the guarantee of a job after college and financial security, I'd become an engineer. But for me, that's hardly fulfilling. I'm choosing history and art history with the full knowledge that I'm never going to be raking in the dough and that I'm going to spend a lot of time in low-paying, hard-fought-for jobs. But that's okay. I'd rather be working for scarcely any pay at an arts education nonprofit than for hundreds of thousands a year as a lawyer. For me, I'd much rather do something I love.</p>
<p>Now, I'd say that a lot of people in biology and other sciences go into the major thinking that they're gonna get some sort of high-paying job at the end of it, when really it seems that A. there's not much one can do with a bachelor's degree and B. there's a glut of such majors anyways and a lot of the jobs are low-paying. I guess that would be disappointing.</p>
<p>Leshachikha-
I too think it is important to do something you love and not worry too much about money. Engineers, lawyers, and doctors who do it only for the money will probably be unhappy despite the income.</p>
<p>Art History, what the hell can you do with art history besides being a teacher or working in a museum/gallery.</p>
<p>I personally think it would be interesting and amazing to major in art history because you basically understand how the world works and how it worked in the past through everything you study in art history.</p>
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<p>Are good test scores, writing ability, thinking ability, and reading ability real-world enough? :p</p>
<p>Art history teaches visual analysis that few other disciplines (film studies and art, for example) work with in detail. As it relates to the thread topic, I know people who wish they majored in it and think they would be more fulfilled if they did, but know only people who are majoring it because it will fulfill them. As everyone else said, it depends on the person.</p>
<p>From the most schools I've read about, hard science majors do significantly better pay-wise (at least in the first jobs). Why is this? I think it has to do with many factors, but some jobs look exclusively for these majors (and pay better), and I also believe humanities majors and social science majors are more likely to be satisfied with a lower level job at a non-profit. I do also think the market is more saturated with humanities and social science majors than with hard science majors. If you really think the market is oversaturated with hard science majors, show some numbers, but more importantly think about it context with how oversaturated the market is with humanities and social science majors, and also consider jobs available open exclusively to hard science majors vs. those exclusively for humanities and social science majors. Many of what would be the latter require the skills the humanities develop more than a humanities degree itself, so they are often not exclusive to these majors. They also tend to pay less than the exclusively for hard science bunch. Such is life.</p>