>"yes goy, this ____ degree will qualify you for all sorts of jobs"
>google "jobs for ____ graduates" and see thousands of clickbait articles guaranteeing you will have 100s of job offers once you graduate
>apply to 1000+ places, no luck
>finally get a job after a year of constant applying
>2/3 of your income must be paid for the ridiculous rent
uni is a fucking scam 95% of the time. nearly all jobs are acquired through "connections" (mostly nepotism) anyway
>doesn't tells what his major is
"bachelors of science in business administration with a focus in economics"
>just get something general goy. then you can work a-n-y-w-h-e-r-e
>majored in philosophy
lul
i knew a guy who did that before going to law school
Never rely on clickbait articles or advice from schools. Nothing beats hard numbers from an impartial source. In Canada, different jobs are assigned National Occupational Classification codes by our statistical agency, which publishes regional data on the number of openings, wages offered, etc. I imagine the Census Bureau has something similar. If you see a sustained downward trend in hiring in your preferred field, avoid that field like the plague.
ok i found some info.
CSV is here:
docs.google.com
sorted by median earnings
it's from: lehd.ces.census.gov
which i found via:
>New U.S. Census Bureau Data Links College Degrees and Earnings
census.gov
here
so according to that sheet
the highest is
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
followed by
BUSINESS/COMMERCE, GENERAL
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
COMPUTER ENGINEERING
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES, GENERAL
ACCOUNTING AND RELATED SERVICES
FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES
economics isn't even that low. and it's a business administration degree. according to this, it's one of the highest paying. what the fuck
must be full of normies/chads who get jobs via "connections" (nepotism)
The "grad_cohort" column is interesting. Almost every single one of the top rankers is pre-recession. and those that aren't are mostly petroleum engineering. This reflects America's degeneration into a resource-exporting colony for industrialized nations overseas. What a time of upheaval we're living in! Frankly I don't know if it's even worth staying in the States. Have you explored career options in Europe?
>Frankly I don't know if it's even worth staying in the States. Have you explored career options in Europe?
no, there are 50 states it shouldn't be impossible to get a job in the 3rd most populous country in the world, with supposedly the biggest economy in the world
leaving the entire USA just seems like overkill, honestly. are they seriously going to pay for all those relocation fees for someone with a mere economics/business degree? doesn't seem very promising
What about entrepreneurship? Do you feel like you might have a special idea or skill that could make money?
i know programming. i am a web developer now but it pays like total shit, over 1/2 of my income is spent on rent. and i have years of work experience
if i had an idea for a website that could make money, i'd just make it
anyone can learn how to make a website, for free, just by googling the info online, it must be an oversaturated market
It is oversaturated.
I don't know you, but I feel like you might be stuck in a rut, where you don't really look beyond your own country or entertain grand visions of any kind. How can I put this? You might benefit from doing a sort of "world tour" to see the state of the art of your field, i.e. economics, and maybe learn how other parts of the world are doing it. For example, you could dig into China's national accounts or study financial flows through Arab tax havens. You wouldn't be doing this for any specific purpose other than to give you new ideas and broaden your mind. Maybe you'd even discover a profitable business idea.
The only degree/work I want is a complete meme and waste of energy so I'm not gonna pursue uni. Makes me kinda sad though. If money wasn't an issue I'd try it. But people with much more serious degrees have trouble finding work, so it's impossible
>read this as "me me degree"
AM I BREAKING THE CONDITIONING? IS THAT THE SCENT OF FREEDOM THAT IS WAFTING UP MY NOSTRILS?
>where you don't really look beyond your own country
well there's no way i could even afford to go on vacation somewhere like this. you really think if i applied to other countries they would offer to pay all of this stuff for me, and even a higher wage than in america?
sounds fishy, that all these countries are looking for monolingual americans with bachelor's degrees. actually people all over the world come to the USA to work
Graduated at 23 with a poli sci degree a khhv and still live at home. Now I'm a neet.
By "world tour", I didn't necessarily mean traveling literally. I just thought you might find it interesting to explore the world economy beyond America's borders. You could use the Internet to do your research. After all, didn't you choose economics because you fundamentally like the subject?
As for finding work overseas, there's no harm in just looking at the options. It doesn't have to be anywhere sketchy. Maybe you're right, maybe there's nothing.
>didn't you choose economics because you fundamentally like the subject?
it's alright. i chose it because
- it came easy to me
- it was a lot of night/afternoon classes and i'm a night owl
- people insisted that there were loads of good opportunities, and of the ones that i was indecisive about, they claimed it was the best
>explore the world economy beyond America's borders
sure, whatever makes me money. i don't know where to start though.
>i don't know where to start though.
I don't either. A lot of countries will have public job boards that you could search through, but they might be more targeted at locals. Companies looking to hire internationally will probably post on the big websites. Here's just a crazy example of one place you might look:
I don't know man. There's tons of English-speaking countries which might be looking for American expertise. Your nationality and degree has to be an asset somewhere, doesn't it?
Computer science
The rent thing gives it away. California rent is ridiculous
>moving to India to work
>annual median income $616 ... per year
lol
USA has one of the highest median incomes of any country. The only ones that out-compete are a few nordic countries and a couple really small central european countries
Norway, Luxembourg, Iceland, Switzerland... these are just a handful of countries with higher median incomes than the USA. And yet, I'm going to be competing with all these central Euros who speak 5 different languages.
>American expertise
what does this even mean though?
>Your nationality and degree has to be an asset somewhere, doesn't it?
i am not sure. remember, it's just a bachelor's degree. most of the classes i took were gen eds. for bachelor's degrees in the US, the first 2 years are the same for everyone...
i make $18/hr rent is just very high
i live in florida and i am in programming (really, web dev since it's javascript) with an economics degree
i wish i got a meme degree for a subject i like at an in-state school for like $3000 a year instead of engineering at a good school for $30,000 per year
bachelor meme degree won't get you shit, post-grad meme degree is decent though
Pro-Tip: Those video interview things are algorithms that measure a bunch of shit but mostly enthusiasm, so talk like an extroverted aspie
Pro-Pro-Tip: Volunteer, join student societies, extracurricular shit to make you stand out and shoe you have "EQ" as well as IQ
What the dock fuck is this and why are people retarded enough to fall for it
I fell for it. I fell for the history ""meme"". Thank fucking lord I'm not in the US though. But I haven't graduated yet so I still have a chance at getting one those teacher positions thousands of others are fighting for. Or perhaps a job as an archivist (a little less unlikely).