<p>Could somebody advice me on this choice I have to make?</p>
<p>I have just started on my two-year Master of Public Administration at the LSE. While I’m taking my courses I would like to give myself an advantage over my future rivals for jobs out there:-)</p>
<p>When I an a couple of months are sure that I can cope with doing extra activities in parallel with my courses I will start doing so. But which of the following would you as an employer prefer?</p>
<p>1) FRENCH. I had some French in high school but now it’s quite rusty. Not good enough to be used at workplace. I believe that I could get a good profiency if a focus on it for 1-2 years. (Btw, Danish is my mother tongue, so French is my third language). I don’t know exactly where I want to work, but I know it will be in Europe or the US. It’s probably 50/50.</p>
<p>2) STATISTICS/ECONOMETRICS/APPLIED MATH
The LSE has lots of these courses. My MPA degree is (unfortunately) not going to be super quantitaive…</p>
<p>(<a href=“http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/government/MPA/mpaProgrammeStructure.htm[/url]”>www.lse.ac.uk/collections/government/MPA/mpaProgrammeStructure.htm</a>)</p>
<p>…and actually I haven’t had a pure math course since high school (my BA Poli Sci was quite soft). So there must be quite a few jobs out there where they won’t think that I’m hard core enough.</p>
<p>I enjoy hard social science courses as much as enjoy French. But I don’t think I will have time to do both.</p>
<p>Please do give a me reason for your recommendation for either choice 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>