Choosing a Major

Trying to figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life could be hard enough, but throwing in how bad our economy is right now. We are forced to decide do we fallow where our passion is or do we go where the jobs are? In a perfect world you would want to do both, by doing what you love and having a job. The worst thing you want to happen though when you get out of college is to have a college degree and no job. So trying to figure out what major you want can be tricky.

Here is a testament of what can happen if you choose a bad major and graduate with no job. This video is called Job Talk: Graduating into a Tough economy found in Youtube.com

They use to say that the only thing you had to worry about with choosing a major, was to find out what you want to do.  Today we are facing many people getting a major by doing that, but then have it be a waste of money in the end. How can we be smart about what we choose in a major? Can we still do what we want?

One thing is I think before you choose a major think about the skills you have and think about what interest you. Try to match your skills with your interest. For example if you have interest in being a singer but can't sing then that is not the career field for you. Then again say you are good at writing papers but you don't want to be a writer because you get bored doing it. Then you know that career is not for you.

If you find a skill you have that you believe you are good at, as well as a interest that matches up with it, then you might of found the right idea for a major. Though where as we use to be able to stop there and just follow that to figure your major out, but that is not the case anymore.

What you would have to do then is research if you got that major would you have a job now? Is there jobs out there or is that job field suppose to grow? If not then you need to start over, re figure out another option.  If it is then you found your major Congratulations!!

Now before I leave you here is a video that will let you know what are some of the worst majors to get in our economy.

This video is called "10 majors w/ Highest unemployment rate" found on youtube.com

Some of these may surprise you as they did for me.  I was surprise to see that psychology majors are not a good major to get. Also the architecture major being a waste of money surprised me but at the same time it made since to me.