How useful is an economics degree?

How useful is an economics degree?

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Useful for the study of anything regarding scarcity. So it'll be relevant to your sex life.

More background, going to college and am trying to decide my major. I'm good with numbers and finance. Would like something that involves travel. Just don't want to waste time in something I won't end up liking

Pick related, I live my life in the name of our savior, Stefan

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Be an actuary. Look it up.

As useful as you make it. If you get a high GPA by taking easy classes you might use it to get a decent wagecuck job in banking/insurance/consulting.

If you care a lot about the subject, you can specialize in some subset and get paid a lot if you study that subject well. A comprehensive understanding of macroeconomics or derivative pricing may be a very valuable skillset in a hedge fund/prop trading shop.

FBI always hiring economist people.

Economists have a well known sex life

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Thank you, my dude

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I have a degree in ag econ from a good state school. I tried picking berries today for sustenance but the mexicans had picked them all already. Probably killing myself later this week.

Ag Econ is a meme. Unless youre a farmer or trader for ADM/Cargill youre never going to make any real money.

An economics double major with math is pretty good since transitions into actuary or data analyst. Otherwise, only take economics if you're in the top 15 schools, the ones targeted by investment banking/consulting recruiters. Otherwise, economics is a shit degree and you're better off taking a more specialized degree. If you want real estate, get a major in business + real estate. If you want to go into finance, get a major in finance. etc.

i have an economics degree from a smallish school and now i work in the provincial goverment as an analyst

Look into actuarial consulting. If you pass your exams by the time you get out of college you make six figures easy. Most companies pay based on number of exams passed so if you land a job, you're not getting jewed for being an 'entry level worker'.

I've been out of school for a decade and I'm picking berries for a living. I'm well aware of my options user.

Go teach ESL abroad, much better than being a berry picker.

I go to a pretty small school. I would like to double major, but the uni is funny about doing that for some reason. It's specifically for financial economics and seems like a good program, but I'm open to switching to something more reliable. I'm not too attached

Managerial resource Econ degree here, get a useful degree that is employable. I did fund allocations for one of sallie Mae’s companies. Literally working the mail room on graveyard shifts for 6 months and got promoted. They were going to sponsor my series 6 when the economy crashed in 2008. Later their stock dropped like 60% in a day and next week they laid off 1/3 of the workforce including me. Nobody wants to hire a fucking economist. Luckily I studied IT all my life and can work in that field now.

It's not that good for getting your first job, but it's pretty solid long-term. Not a meme degree, just network. If you get bad grades from a bad college then don't expect too much.

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>finance degree
>economics degree

What the fuck is the difference? Is it sorta like:
>"economics" = macroeconomics
>"finance" = microeconomics

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I have one and am working minimum wage. Shitty state school