I just saw on another site that someone said that a psychology degree is a worthless degree. I knew a girl with a bachelors in psychology and who was spectacularly successful. She started out working in a bank, and she came early and stayed late, so they gave her good references when she went to another job. She worked her way up, and now she is a CEO of an entire region for a major bank. When you get a four year degree now chances are you won’t work in your chosen field. An employer looks at a four year degree as something that proves you’re stable enough to handle a job. The employer won’t automatically make you an executive if you have a degree. You have to work your way up.
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Wise words @crimby
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Very Wise indeed.
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Is that how it is in the usa? In singapore, they value the degree a lot and if you dont have a related field of study , they will just filter you out during the hr selection
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I guess America is different.
But, I did math and got sick.
Most billionaires major in engineering, I heard.
I see nothing wrong with majoring in business, nursing, math, economics, physics, or engineering, but that’s just me.
Some people just don’t care.
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I’ve always heard there’s no such thing as a worthless major, it’s what you do with it.
Filmmaking is definitely a pretty worthless major though, at least in my experience. Like thousands graduate in it each year and they’re all competing for one job opening.
I also have a 2 year degree in criminal justice and I find that fairly worthless as I can’t work in law enforcement, and I don’t want to be a corrections officer or a private investigator.
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When I studied economics there were a couple of students who did it as their second studies. They had studied things like philosophy and found themselves to be unemployable.
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My cousin dropped 35k on a psychology degree from the online school University of Phoenix. She regrets it.
I think high school students need training to not listen to the dipshit college recruiters. They will say anything for you to buy those courses.
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I think it’s luck. for some it’ll work out, for some it won’t.
Risks and positives to going to university
Edit. The only reason I chose to go uni was because I needed time to keep my options open, an apprenticeships weren’t common especially in the banking sector which was kinda my goal around 18/19 but I was aware it could lead to something entirely unexpected (didn’t consider developing schizophrenia or illness of any kind though)
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English.
Archeology.
Anything ending in Studies.
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I did history and sociology joint majors
Even with that I am basically working in a STEM role at work with no qualifications in this area
It was not a waste of my time as I enjoyed it
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crimby said it, the degree process in the nonpractical areas are just to see if you are stable enough for a job. if you dont get a degree you basically become a washout, which has been going on for years with no help for anyone. If there is some useless process for washing people out in society there should be some kind of reforms made.
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I don’t see how her psychology degree helped her in the bank industry, it seems like she was successful due to her hard work, you don’t even need a degree to work at a bank at some entry level positions, where I’m from a degree would get you discriminated from fastfood jobs or retail jobs.
Kind of funny how a lot of entry level positions that require a degree ask for several years of experience, no one I met in college expected to be an executive straight out of college but they at least expected entry level job in the field they studied.
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I think “useless” is an overstatement, in this case. Maybe a better word for some fields is “saturated.”
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This is the sad truth about a lot of degrees, there not as valuable as they use to be, of course you have degrees that have high demand but not every one wants to purse those degrees.
My kid just came out of uni into an entry-level job in her field (business marketing). She’s pretty happy.
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I never understood ‘studies’ but I guess it’s not the degree, but who you know, or what you do with it.
When I was struggling in math, I thought about doing English or "Latin and Greek studies/languages’ but just stuck with math. Math was a wake up call for me. I struggled or sucked at it. I don’t know if I was prodromal, but I transferred as an econ major and struggled in pure math or applied math, I guess. I wanted to study set theory and logic, but my grades sucked, and then I got sick.
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STEM majors (back when I was doing it) can be ego driven or have an elitist bent to it. People I was hanging out with looked down on other majors. Most of them graduated and were doing okay, I guess.
Some people I interacted with viewed woman as ‘inferior’ in STEM and made jokes a lot and made fun of ‘studies majors’ or regular majors.
It’s not true or accurate to say the least.
I did STEM because I felt like the money could be better and more scholarships and was challenging. I didn’t finish, obviously.
They had the "smart’ scholarship back then, but I lost it because my GPA went down. It was a couple grand a year or less in free money just for picking a STEM major. I heard there was a shortage. I guess I’m not “smart” lol jk.
My last college degree was truly… Worthless.
I studied English and international communication.
Mainly we studied English here… but I am truly not so good to be a translator, so I call it worthless.
Ofc it helped me to deepen my understanding about English a bit, but not a lot
My next studies will be in uni, I am choosing journalism. I hope these will be more helpful in my future, though my main goal in life is to write 
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