Finance is useless on the undergrad level?

tetrishead
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:51:58 +0000

I’m making an important point that the OP hasn’t gotten despite constantly posting and reading this forum. Most of the information he’s going to get is bad information, and when he reads the overwhelming majority of people say how a finance degree is a good idea, or sees links to average salaries from certain schools and then sees one person say a finance degree isn’t worth “it” his first response shouldn’t be to immediately assume that is the truth, or to ask about it. He should look at the source, then he should look at the sources saying a finance degree is worth it, then he should research that issue on his own–not looking for commentary, but hard numbers–and then he should try to discuss the issue, once he’s familiar with it.

He’s caught in a constant loop of trying to make decisions based on vague statements without stopping and doing his own research and going through the process of drawing his own conclusions.