[1] "b"Similar to how a 28 year old English major might feel as he waits tables. Now is the time of his life where he should be getting ahead, setting up a career, making use of the skills he worked so hard to aquire. Now all that's been torn apart, he's been lied to, swindled and betrayed.\n""
[2] "b"My husband (turned 30 last month) has had the opposite experience. He was encouraged by absolutely everyone to major in comp sci because that's where all the jobs were gonna be, and he'd been using computers all his life so it would be easy. It was easy, and that's the only reason he did it, and right around the time he graduated, the market became absolutely saturated and he's had the hardest time finding anything besides help desk positions.\n""
[3] "b"she has been unemployed ever since she gave birth to me, she used to have a plethora of jobs before but way back she chose the wrong major in uni and she had to work a low- wage job (the communist regime didn't make it easier) and her last job was at her own real- estate agency which she closed to raise me, altho not that well now.\n""
[4] "b"I agree that college isn't for everyone. If my brother was open to working for a specific trade or making moves towards that, I would be fully supportive of him. However, he is just working a low skill retail job right now and he himself said that he wanted to go to school and major in finance, he just never took the initiative to do so until now. \n""
[5] "b"If it makes you feel better, everyone feels way behind in life. I made it a joke with friends to do as little as possible in highschool and as such went to a college well below my intelligence level. I then chose an easy major so I could drink and party more. This led me to getting a job that was mind numbingly boring and way below my skillset. I eventually just started applying to jobs I wasn't overly qualified for, but sold myself and bullshitted well enough to get a job that more than doubled my salary and is willing to pay for my MBA. \n""
[6] "b'I took one look and went "yep, that\'s me". It covered everything I was already interested in and I was in a fortunate enough position that I could afford to do the degree without killing myself about debt or job prospects, which admittedly look reasonably good right now. Sociology turned out to be a very enjoyable major and it complemented my political science major very nicely. \n'"
[7] "b"Yeah. I majored in physics, and when I took a QM course in college, it was the first course I thought I was gonna get a 'D' in. Except everybody was doing so bad, that we were eventually graded on a generous curve. Granted, part of that may have been the instructor's failing, and I would hope that these concepts generally become more and more accessible to less devoted audiences, but there is a difference between reading The Quantum Caf\xc3\xa9 and solving Stern-Gerlach equations (or whatever - it's been a few years since I distanced myself from the field).\n""
[8] "b'I also learned that he went to the same uni as me and was supposed to graduate the same year as I did, but ended up taking a bit more time. He also majored in Biochemistry, which is the same thing I wanted to major in before I decided to change it to Japanese (yeah, not one of my best decisions, but live and learn). \n'"
[9] "b"Wow, congrats to you, and your hard work. Your situation is quite similar to the one I am in now...went in as a freshman psych major thinking I knew I wanted to be a therapist (which meant grad school) went for 2-3 years and now really REALLY don't want to continue the route to working in mental health. I have a double major now with computer science and psych. I went to my school's career center and did some tests with them and found that HR would be a really ideal fit for me, so I became very interested in it when choosing a career path to head into. \n""
[10] "b"I'm sorta like this. It's really in one class and I complain about it at home. Basically, my college requires us to take a computer literacy course. I could've taken a test and gone directly to my major (computer programming). I thought I might learn something and didn't want to bomb the test in the somewhat unlikely scenario. So I join the class, and I recently found out the hardest thing to learn to do is how to be fluent in windows 10...\n""
[11] "b"Also another set of advice is to go and find yourself a school physiologist. It sucks having to open up, especially me, I've always been a mystery to my friends. Not because I have anything to hide, rather I hate the feeling of vulnerability, but if it weren't for the grace of God and my therapist they're would be no way I would continue going to school and I'm actually doing really well. Taking a major in chemistry and a minor in business.\n""
[12] "b"Thank you for the advice. I do hope your right. I'm in college right now and struggling to find a purpose, while those around me seem to have a stable plan, and that does really really bother me. I went into college hoping I'd figure it out and that God had a plan for me. I pray for him often to guide me and watch over me. But now I'm a sophomore and still a general studies major (I know it's sad) and I'm getting extremely anxious, as I don't have much more to do, if any classes before I have to declare my major.\n""
[13] "b"I am considering this. The only thing holding me back is that it took me until my senior year of college to realize I actually had little interest in the degree I was working towards, at which point it was too late to change majors, and I'm afraid it will happen again. I realize this isn't really a rational fear, but getting another degree isn't cheap, and I don't want to waste money. I think I do have a better idea of what my interests are now though than I did when I picked my major in college.\n""
[14] "b"I get how it happens. I majored in something I thought I loved. Got three years in by the time I realized I hated it (or aspects of it at least). I couldn't change it or else I would've had to spend another two years in school on top of the usual four. So I half assed it, barely graduated, and now I have a degree in something I really don't want to be involved in. Luckily I found a decent job that I might be able to make a career out of. Otherwise I'll be going back to school.\n""
[15] "b"I was like you, art was my passion, but I also loved learning and after 3 years of majoring in art I decided to switch my major to something that involved more regular book learning. Best decision I ever made. I love what I do to the point that I have a compulsive need to do it and get kinda depressed if I can't. If you're interested in engineering, definitely look into physics. It's definitely hard, but you just gotta push through when it gets tough. Unbelievably rewarding, and some of the best friends I've ever made were my physics classmates.\n""
[16] "b"What I tell myself is that once I graduate and enter the work force I won't need it. I'm a senior in the physics major of a decent university and my classes are ridiculously hard for me (it's a long story but I never really wanted to be a physics major, I kind of got pushed into it). When I graduate I want to get into programming as a career, and my logic is that I already like programming and am pretty good at the long programming marathons so I won't need it. But of course, amphetamine and programming go together like peanut butter and jelly, so I know I'm probably lying to myself... \n""
[17] "b"No problem. I was a Women's Studies major and I taught the intro to Feminisms class for a semester. There were a lot of books. That last one is heavy reading but she is super knowledgeable. I will never forget the day I graduated and she told me how proud she was I was cool with dating a women who may be smarter than me. My wife never let's me forget it. \n""
[18] "b"I'm a History major with a minor in teaching (grades 8-12). I was originally torn between science and history as I'm interested in both, but after my first science and history class I realized I'm a huge history buff. Science is easier for me, but I love history so I chose what I loved. As far as the teaching goes, my father is a retired AG teacher/principal/superintendent, and my mother is a retired special ed teacher. I think it's just in my blood. \n""
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