I feel like every major is useless.

grapico
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:45:03 +0000

“It is pretty rare that a undergraduate degree will make you six firgures anyways. No degree does that automatically. If you do international relations and get a stellar GPA you. There are a bunch of degrees that don’t have a literal application. It would be a lot easier for you to decide how you want to change the world and what exactly that would entail, then work backwards to see what kind of training you will need.”

Bingo… Best Advice yet, thus why I am doing what I am doing now…

I felt the same way after getting a different one before (i.e. going after a good paying job in IT) then working in an unfilling job… so much so that I was working for several NFP’s on the side.

now I am doing a B.S. in Political Science at a top school to add to my experience and plan to do an MPA after that (working for an NFP) it took a LOT of research into what I could do and what majors and schools offered what I wanted to do, but think I found it now.

Also with the right things, there will be perks to this type of job… free travel, free food, socializing with good people etc… I was working for an NFP on the side and got around a 10,000 dollar trip paid for me to go to Europe and Africa.

I had thought about IR, but… it is too competitive mindset for me, too concerned with wealth and largely too restrictive to DC/NYC. I think the MPA is much more applicable, as well as the Poli Sci degree, much more quantitive in nature than IR curriculums I have seen…