What is/was your college major?

[SpaceYeti]

... Marketing? You may as well buy some butt plugs now, so you don't get injured.

 

[nada]

Lool how come?

 

[SpaceYeti]

Because you'll be a whore.

 

[nada]

Not necessarily.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I mean, seriously, what would be cooler than saying to someone "I'm an ergonomics engineer!"

Yea man, engineer has got to be one of the top ten most badass words to describe yourself in a conversation.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Damn skippy!

 

[nyaneko]

Because you'll be a whore.

I also have some biased views on anyone that takes something like... business or marketing... you have it nicely put but slightly on the extreme.

I wouldn't be too pleased if someone NOT TALENTED took art / fashion / design etc.

For a while, I wanted to be an engineer. Female engineer is just BADASS. But I'm not like one of those... long haired all tied back thick glasses trackies ..... I'm more normal.

But you know. I'm too lazy and it's monotonous and boring... so I'm taking science instead. More variations. High school physics interested me.. mathematics is way too hard in university...

 

[nada]

What do you mean biased views? Can you please elaborate?
To be honest, I don't see what you guys are insinuating. People who do business are whoreish? It could be the difference in culture and what not, but that's not how I view it. Plus if it's about talent, I have it. I've been studying business management at university level and I was quite good at it especially marketing.
We don't all have to be engineers.

 

[SpaceYeti]

No, it's not business, it's marketing. You are the middle man, basically. And you have to make the product look good, even if it sucks.

 

[nada]

Business is nothing without the marketing. No marketing = no product.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Nope. No marketing = too much product remaining.

 

[nyaneko]

What do you mean biased views? Can you please elaborate?
To be honest, I don't see what you guys are insinuating. People who do business are whoreish? It could be the difference in culture and what not, but that's not how I view it. Plus if it's about talent, I have it. I've been studying business management at university level and I was quite good at it especially marketing.
We don't all have to be engineers.

I mean. Do whatever you like. But if you do something commerce eg. accounting, finance, economics... you're pretty much guaranteed a job and it's actually something that has theory behind it...

Marketing... it's slightly artsy... you probably won't understand what I am talking about. But... Nowadays, economics is always on downfall. Marketing... Rather hard to get a job because businesses are being run down or not sufficient enough to build up etc. Business... If you want to be some manager. But if you want to run a business entrepreneur... Half the time it's not from someone who's taken business in university.

I don't mean it's whoreish. Just that dude had to poke it.

So what do you do now?

 

[Audentia]

I can understand why someone like Einstein would choose to work in a patent office instead of a profession that would allow him to use his abilities. I much rather have a simple job where I am able to think as much as I want about anything than be forced to put thought into something I don't necessarily care about.

So true.

 

[Saoshyant]

I have a B.S. in Finance. Emphasis on the B.S. part. It impresses people, but the majority could not tell you the difference between accounting and finance.

 

[Anchorite]

I'm going in to political science.

 

[Womplord]

Mathematics

 

[Cogwulf]

Materials science and technology

 

[5k17]

Computational Linguistics.

 

[ScorpioINTP]

Firstly, I find it disturbing that people would judge someone based on their choice of major here.

I would love to study psychology, but my amazing parents wouldn't pay for it and I can't possibly afford university tuition on my own.

I was kinda in the same boat. I am long past college now. I have poor guidance and lack of conviction suffice it to say. Early on I wanted to be an Architect, then later on in HS, I loved psychology, but I was discouraged from that and my domineering salesman father thought I would be good in sales. I at least knew I would not, although his lifestyle was appealing.

I took marketing in HS and kinda liked it and found it easy to pick up, so I decided to do the practical thing and major in Business/marketing in hopes of eventually running my own business someday, but really I had no idea what I wanted to do and I only needed 4 yrs.

I also played baseball in college and had hopes of playing professionally, so that was a factor and consumed much of my time too, so I feared taking something overly demanding and business was one of two majors that allowed me not to have to take a foreign language (I already had 5 yrs of Spanish and didn't want more).

FFW to today and I still don't know what I want and have worked primarily in accounting of all things and find it boring and monotonous. And believe it or not they actually want you to have an outgoing personality...my how things have changed.

I wish I could go back and do engineering of some sort or psychology. I had bad influences within my family.

 

[Unsure]

Starting college again soon, I plan to take either more Psychology courses, and/or creative writing courses, I haven't made up my mind yet.

 

[lucyintheskies]

Mathematical statistics - changed my major every semester til my senior year - graduated with degree in mathematics cause because the program included lots of elective hours

 

[Andropov]

Not in college yet, but planning on going for materials science, physics, linguistics, or philosophy. Also maybe math?

 

[kinetickyle]

BA in anthropology & a minor in history
MS in applied anthropology

If I could do it all again, I'd have majored in philosophy, minored in anthropology, and still gone to grad school for anthropology.

 

[Atomsk the Anti-Hero]

Currently I am taking Biomedical Engineering, and I want to see if I can minor in Genetic Engineering. I'd like to think that afterwards, I could play as God!

...The idea of God in a Christian's mind anyways.

 

[dberreth]

Architecture, love being creative and finding different ways to do things. Never want to do things the same way twice. I've been at it for over 30 years and it never is boring.

 

[Kev]

I am studying philosophy. Originally I was studying political science, but political scientists are so caught up in other peoples ideas that they don't allow themselves to question them, or come up with ideas of their own. Philosophy is freeing. I don't think I, as an INTP, could be more comfortable any other place.