| Your fellow students and friends are as immature as you are, and your parents, with all due respect, are not authorities on the subjet of modeling wage performance normalized for inherently intangible personal characterisitics and years worked for specific undergraduate majors in a multitude of fields aggregated to provide a data set to be drawn from and interpreted.
As for the philosophers not making any dough thing, that's true, philosophers are academics. Philosophers with high quality internships who enter into management consulting out of school because they did better when a theoretical case was thrown at them in a weed-out interview make dough, though. A finance major makes it easier for you to get a better job out of school in the same way graduating from Princeton instead of Cal State Fullerton makes it easier for you to get a better job out of school. There are too many intangibles to this that people try to quantify. The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes.
This is not the same as college admissions (which for plenty of schools are pretty hard to quantify anyway), and it's not uniform, and even if you are a year or two behind other kids once you're a few years into your career all that matters is on the job performance--and then you've got a whole other set of intangible experiences to deal with, that people think they can quantify but can't, and you'll be asking questions similar to this all over again.
The xanax can be replaced with a few beers. |