Undecided Sophomore

College Majors
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I hate college, and I hate the fact that I’m being forced to decide what I will do for the rest of my life at such a young age. Interests change, and more than likely what I like now at 19 will change when I’m 29, 39, and 49.

I went into college as a Construction Management major. Boring and useless degree, as all those firms care about is experience. I switched to Accounting. I suck at math but this major is the only decent major I found. And as I began to think about it, accountants spend their days behind a computer in an office. Yuck.

I’ve taken several “major match” tests and talked to several people about their fields. The major match always claims I’m interested in some terrible field like Elementary Education or Hospitality, which I can assure you, I am not.

I have no idea what to major in and no idea what I want to do after college. Right now I work part-time and just enjoy life until it comes to school. Thinking about school just disgusts me. I want more out of life than to get a piece of paper that says I’m somehow qualified to sit behind a computer in a cubicle for the next 45 years of my life. The only reason I’m still in college is because my parents are forcing me to go. So help me out here, what’s a good major that isn’t too hard to get a degree in?

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Your major doesn’t determine what you do for the rest of your life. You’ve got probably another seventy years to decide that.

I’m a CPA (but don’t have an accounting degree, because I was ~30 before I was interested enough in CPAing to take the exam), and spend a good portion of my time in tax season driving around and talking to people. Much the way your major doesn’t determine your job title, your job title doesn’t necessarily determine what you do on a day to day basis.

Also, it’s entirely acceptable to work to live, rather than live to work. Get a degree in something (because that piece of paper gives you more job options, regardless of whether it gives you any job-relevant skills), get a job you don’t hate, and enjoy life.