Okay I have a question for you fellas. Do you think women have more freedom to choose a "fun" major? Let me explain. A woman if married will have to take time off to have kids and sometimes doesn't re-enter the workplace for years or never at all if her husband can provide without her working. Her time between getting a job out of college and having a baby could be less than 5 years. That's not a lot of time or motivation to really pursue a career that comes from a non-fun major. Women have traditionally been dependent on their husbands' income, and because of that may experience less pressure when choosing a major, especially those coming from families where the father was the provider. How many women do you see in engineering classes? I know a lot more females than males who major in more of the "fun" majors. Rarely have I heard a girl say she was interested in her major for the money. Do you feel like men are pressured, or you are pressured, more to get a secure job that provides and in doing so needs a more difficult and sometimes boring major?
First thing, first: in Australia we don't usually have College; instead we have a TAFE system or just go to uni when you finish your High school. Im interested to go to American after i spend 3-4 years of uni here in Australia, since when I was 4-7 years old I love looking at maps and facts about weather changes/patterns. I want to be a Climatologoist or Geography Teacher. I love to go to Houston first if I go to America, then tour around the West and East Coast and finally starting a family either in Houston or Canada/perhaps a place in the East Coast (e.g. NY). Love Houston. Love America!? :grin:
There is a joke that says, "What is the shortest book ever written? Answer: jobs for history majors." Well, you can include MANY other majors as well including philosophy, literature, women's studies, ethnic studies of any kind, speech communications, political science, and the list goes on. If you are a "trust baby" then any of the above are O.K., but if you have to actually earn a living I would try a "practical" major like anything related to medicine, engineering, business, or criminal justice.
I never thought about the money when I chose engineering, but this is probably very true for many people. It's a total sausage fest in my engineering classes.
I would choose physics cuz I find it really interesting but I am not smart enough to get a high GPA if I majored in it and as a result I would not be able to get a job upon graduating
Yes, I feel like women have morefreedom to take fun majors. Why else do colleges offer woman's studies as a major? However, I feel like men have more of a fallback. For women, it's ethier get married or go to college. But as men, we have other options, like mining, and factory work.
That's a question most people outside the field ask. For consulting, having a PhD in a scientific field generally means you're good at finding solutions to open ended problems that a lot people haven't considered before. A lot of the mathematical and computational tools used in astrophysics are directly applicable to quantitative finance, and so a lot of people go straight from the PhD program into finance (this is true of physics, computer science, and statistics as well).
There are lots of former engineers working on Wall Street as analysts and in other capacities. Neel Kashkari was an aeronautical engineer before getting his MBA and going on to becoming a VP at Goldman Sachs, working for the Treasury, and then PIMCO.
Sociology, more specifically Criminology. I took Criminology as an elective a few years on a pass/fail basis because I wanted to enjoy the class and not have to worry about grades. It was, to date, the most interesting college course I have ever taken. I never wanted to miss a lecture.
Finance/Investment banking but culinary school would be fun....Grilling only...you wont' find me near an oven anytime soon unless it's to put a pizza in it.
