<p>I really don’t get them. They’re so smug, so arrogant when they don’t study anything. What intellectual passions do they have? Do they have an urge to tinker and discover? Or do they just plan to live down Easy Street?</p>
<p>(Note, dual majors with a business/econ-related major + science major are excluded from this generalisation. They are cool people.)</p>
<p>I am intrigued by business but not enough to study it. I like the strategical aspect of it and I am good at and enjoy management of pretty much anything. I probably could have been good at business studies.</p>
<p>My dad is a small business owner and there is definitely nothing easy about it, but he finds it very rewarding. Different strokes, I guess.</p>
<p>Different people are passionate about different things, whether it’s arts, science, law, architecture, etc. “Business” is pretty diverse - someone who loves books might end up owning a bookstore, someone who loves sports may end up in Sport Management, etc.</p>
<p>me, i’m a sci major and I love what I’m studying, but my boyfriend hated chem (hs chem isn’t real chem but still) and doesn’t get why I like it so much. He’s studying finance and I have no clue about that stuff, about stock commodities or aquisition indebtness or what any of it even means. So he goes off to his finance internships in his tie, and I go off to my research internship in my lab coat, and we don’t really what the other person is studying, but there’s nothing wrong with that. He does really like Econ/International affairs so maybe that brought about the finance interest? It’s an important field, you know. :)</p>
<p>I also know someone who loves Chem but decided to do ChemE (he’d rather do Chem or Biochem) because it’s lucrative, so sometimes people simply are practical. Many Business majors do have intellectual interests like Literature or Bio but not so interested that they want to go into those fields, which makes sense. And some people just aren’t academic types, they’re passionate about other stuff in their life. Maybe they volunteer or paint or travel and that’s what they’re passionate about.</p>
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<p>Well that’s different. I’m very interested in business and economics too. (It has a lot of applications for evolutionary bio / ecology.) But I think it’s stupid/passionless to major only in a business-related major. It’s like majoring in “Education” without having a particular field of expertise.</p>
<p>It’s easier to train a physicist to be a teacher than it is to train an education major to be a physicist. </p>
<p>Likewise, it’s easier to train a scientist to be a businessman than it is to train a business major to be a scientist.</p>
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yeah when people ask me if a Chem degree is limiting, I put it this way: with a Chem degree, I can go into medicine, sci research, journalism, education, business, finance, law, publishing/writing, marketing, etc…but people who majored in journalism, business, finance, education or most other majors can’t go into the Chem field. </p>
<p>but I don’t think it’s dumb to study only a business-related major. sometimes people simply aren’t interested in other stuff, other times it’s to be practical, or because they like econ, as you pointed out. not everone is really into academics; most people are in college because they want to get a degree and have some fun doing it. if you want to go into business, why double major in bio/business when you could easily just study business and get the same job anyway?</p>