Why torture yourself with a Chemistry Major?

<p>Chemistry majors are one of the hardest majors with often the lowest average campus major GPAs. Job prospects for chemistry majors aren't that fantastic either, so why go through all the pain? I am about to take analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, (possibly pchem) and am dreading it, and am wondering how people can like chemistry so much that they choose it as their major? I really want to know how people actually enjoy it, so I can possibly learn to enjoy it more and make it less unbearable.</p>

<p>Believe it or not, some people actually like chemistry. I despise it, but enjoy physics. For physics the job prospects might not be great and it might be difficult, but I really enjoy it so that’s my major.</p>

<p>Theres a point in time when you need to balance love,money and difficulty, in that order. So by those standards should someone who is studying chemistry study chemical engineering? If its to difficult no. But if its not they should definitely go for it. Chemists make a fair amount of money and if its what they love but chemical engineering is to difficult they should go for it.</p>

<p>Now child development majors should not take that major as there is no money in it, unless of course they love it. but they should probably become teachers honestly.</p>

<p>What im saying do what you love, with money and difficulties on your mind and find a happy medium. So that is my answer to your question.</p>

<p>^Yeah I agree. I absolutely hate history and would never major in it no matter how much money someone gave me. However, others live, breathe, and eat history or other majors that I don’t like. Maybe for those people, applying calculations to concepts such as the Born-Haber Theory and titrations comes easily to them and is fun. Come to think of it, with the current unemployment rates in the U.S., aren’t all job prospects in every field scarce?</p>

<p>Some aspects of chemistry are more or less enjoyable to some people more than others. I wasn’t that big a fan of Physical chemistry and inorganic but like analytical/instrumental, biochem, and organic. Others hate biochem and love physical. In industry most jobs require gen chem, analytical, and basic orgo, and biochemistry/molecular biology in the more biological based companies. </p>

<p>As for the job prospects I wholeheartedly agree. If you are smart enough to pass courses this intense you can do infinately better for yourself studying something that will set you up for something better than crappy dead-end $15 an hour no benefits temp jobs. Even if you love chemistry it is hard to justify the cost in time, tuition nowadays.</p>