Is Majoring In Psychology Waste of Time and Money?

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Originally Posted by shinerbock

I'm actually a graduate who majored in a worthless degree. That being said, I'm teaming it up with a fairly good law school, so hopefully given the proper amount of effort, I'll have good career prospects. That being said, I would never trade my 4 years of undergrad. I majored in Poli Sci, which was interesting and came naturally to me. Thus, I had plenty of time to enjoy SEC fraternity life, football season, etc. There are a lot of degrees are there that could be considered a "waste." Most things in Liberal Arts, for example. However, they also give you time to figure out what you really wanna do, while enjoying your college experience. In my experience, I've also found that people who majored in directed fields like Mechanical Engineering or some sort of computer science, etc., generally end up doing things in their field. My friends came out of school, got good jobs making 50-70k, and will probably do it the rest of their life. For me, who is interested in law, politics, teaching, etc, I don't wanna get into a career at 22 that I'll probably stay in my entire life.

Pretty much second all that. My engineering major fiance already has a guaranteed job and he's a year away from graduating. It's a sweet job and he could easily stay there for life (although he'll probably switch companies at least). To me, that's just icky. Do what interests you - it's not worth being miserable to do otherwise. You can make pretty much *anything* marketable if you're creative about it. I do publicity and recruiting, so maybe I'm biased, but really.