Choosing a major, wonderful.

**DragonsFox** · 05-01-2010 02:45 AM

Hello everyone.

Long story short, I'm 21 (almost 22) and just decided to go back to school after taking some time off. Not exactly something I want to do but I can't find a job and I'm tired of people telling me I'm doing nothing with my life.

Aside from everyone telling me I'm picking the wrong school, blah blah blah, apparently I'm once again choosing the wrong major? I wanted to do HR but apparently most companies are outsourcing overseas? Uh, that's great. :/ I definitely wanted to do a double concentration in international business relation because I want to move to Germany but I don't know if I can. I feel like I'm getting screwed at every alley with everything I think I might want to do.

Any advice?

**ItsASecret** · 05-01-2010 04:33 AM

The student advisors at the school will have answers to everything, at least they should lol. I know when I was picking my science major I had no clue because there are so many options and paths and ugh just a complete mess of picking and choosing and hoping that it all turns out.

The first thing you should focus on is what you want to do, or at least what you would hope to be doing. I will use my experience as an example. For me I want to get into neuroscience medical research, so I went backwards from there. I thought okay medical research so I need a science degree...okay now with a science degree I need to pick what type of science...okay I choose biology...well biology is flippin broad so I had to start with the basic courses....turns out I was terrible in math and really did not like analytical chemistry (math again) so I learned to manipulate my degree around that. In the end I am going with the basic general degree program because it allows for the most flexibility in courses. Maybe the same type of dealio can be applied to you. Start with what you want to do as a career and go backwards with what type of education you would need, ask many questions along the way and see if there is a general program that you can start out in. General programs are good for the first year of studies because you can transfer into more specialized ones in later years-that is assuming you are looking at a 4 year degree program. Usually there are specialized programs like the double major but you need to be pretty darn sure that it is the field you want to go into because there will probably be little flexibility in the courses you can take.

**Yvee** · 05-01-2010 04:34 AM

They say that major companies look at post-grad education as more of a qualifying factor then an actual something-that-influences-the-decision. For years now people have gone to Uni's and Colleges just to get the education because someone has told them that that makes the job search easier.
According to resent stats, most businesses don't even care education you have, as long as you have proper experience or have something particularly special to show for yourself.

I say you should pick something you like and are interested in! Whatever it is, it'll be effective, even if you never end up having to use it!

**DragonsFox** · 05-01-2010 05:37 AM

I have an associates degree so I'm a little past the try and find what you like stage lol.

My main goal is to get to Germany and open a cafe but I figure if I had an HR degree that I could get a job hopefully with a German company like Porsche and transfer over there.

I'm just afraid that I'm going to spend all this money (It's like 40k) a year for this school and then not be able to find a job in that area anymore and then it's like back to square one ok what do I do now?

Originally I was a German major but at my original school that didn't quite work out. :/

**ItsASecret** · 05-01-2010 05:54 AM

Why not contact the company of your interest that you want to work for to find out exactly what they would be looking for? Shouldn't they have a general idea of what type of degree they would prefer? Maybe for whatever reason you are already qualified.