Should I study Economics or Business Administration ?

Never implied it was harder.
Certainly more interesting than business administration.

Skip boring economics and skip to behavioral economics.
Tversky/Kahneman/Taleb..(perhaps).

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>Math or engineering
STEM is a meme. Without a phd, experience and recommendations, my company would not even invite someone for an interview from this field.

BA or economics land you a job even with an average undergrad degree.

Study the blockchain

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Which one would you prefer ? BA or economics

What are you smoking, I did a summer internship and got a job after graduating. I did comp sci/EE

Economics are fun but they are just wrong, just get capital and start trading and learning from heuristics like Taleb says.

I would prefer BA, but already having a degree might make my decision somewhat biased here.

However, not just BA and absolutely not marketing. Go with something not many do, like controlling and add learning how to code and handle databases a bit. You dont need to master it, just the basics are okay.

This is basically the golden ticket in this field, as seemingly no one can do this.

No top tech firms hire BA's though, you will get stuck in some trash company bullied by unions.

> just get capital and start trading and learning from heuristics like Taleb says.

Well that is what I am doing. Taleb has been one of my biggest influences when it comes to understanding Economics. He does lend a lot of from Tversky and Kahneman when it comes down to Heuristics.

Some Taleb wisdom on trading:

> vocaroo.com/i/s1Le8jFCGsJF

>I got a job after graduating
Consider yourself very lucky.
In law and STEM, we have so many applications for a single position, HR sorts out anyone without a phd, before even looking at anything else.

However, it might have to do with the country.

>No top tech firms hire BA's though, you will get stuck in some trash company bullied by unions.

Then I ask myself, which finance department I am deputy head of for about two years now with "just" an undergrad in finance. We are market leaders in several med-tech fields.

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Yeah
>He does lend a lot of from Tversky and Kahneman when it comes down to Heuristics.

I'm not denying he does, but those people didn't study Economics is what I'm saying, they were both psychologists/mathematicians IIRC.

>just get capital and start trading

I am a bit amazed, that this even gets discussed here.
The Jow Forums from 2015 would have roasted you for even thinking making a living out of trading.

Why? Mid term trading strategies work fine.

This.
Behavioural Ecinomics / Socioeconomics / Agent-centric modelling / Economic Anthropology and Blockchain Economics — if you want to have fun, satisfaction and employability at the same time.

Because the amount of money needed, to make enough money in mid-term investments to live from the gains is actually not low enough to make this a "get capital"-issue but a "have capital"-issue.

From what I understand, someone could be tempted to get credit from a bank for it. Which in turn is a very bad idea.

I agree then. I was thinking in terms of already having capital.

Still doing some retail investing while doing a STEM degree tends to be a good idea since if you wanna apply yourself to work as a trader at a firm you can add your "private portfolio management" experiences to the CV. I work in tech and they appreciated that I did some stuff like that in my spare time.

I will be coming back to this thread because I have the exact same dilemma

Study BA then, Economics are mostly a scam especially in Keynesian departments.

Go for Business Administration. In fact, it would be better if you take any trade offered by trade schools over Econ just because of jobs available.

I am not so sure that this is so beneficial. With a STEM degree and experience in investing/trading, the best thing when you want to use both of these fields, is trying to become a specialized industry analyst. With a background in math/physics, maybe a quant trading company is interesting, but then again your own retail investment experience matters very little, as this is a complete different operational field.

And even as an analyst, I dont see the issue to be different. There is an abundance of STEM graduates to chose from and the information you are required to provide there is also heavily focussed on the tech, which has nothing to do with your experience as a retail investor.

if you study economics, you'll probably get forcefed a unit on marx because "oooooooaah but he had an iq of 600 million and his ideas were so influential!!!!"
imagine helping to create a system that killed over 100 million people because it is so numb to objective truths about how humans operate and then being celebrated for it to the point where your economically illiterate piece of shit critique of the single greatest thing ever to happen to the civilized world and to benefit the rest of the world as a result is taught as a valid and functional set of arguments and objective truths, always getting the benefit of "not being real communism!" from everyone when it fails, whereas when the system that it opposes is blatantly taken over in countries that it made extraordinarily wealthy and happy and advanced and replaced with anti-free-market rules and borderline socialist taxation, educated morons are still begging for what little remains of it to be destroyed because they don't understand that the corporatocracy that they live in was what was prevented by capitalism for well over a hundred years, and was enabled by socialist practices

Uh, edgy fagging.

If you study economics youre going to learn a lot of theory and no real world applications. If you study business admin you will be a good cog in a company after that company spends 3 years unlearning all the stupid shit college taught you. If you start a business you will learn on the fly and probably have better success and certainly sooner than if you wasted money "studying"

I make between $170-220k annually in construction management. Never took a single class

Do you know why companies like PHD and other applicants with long college careers? Sure they may have the knowledge and ability, but so may the guy on the street. The degree shows that the applicant has the character to stick it out and see things through. What companies value more than anything is commitment. They know that most intelligent people can adapt to learn anything so they want people with the personality to stay with a company after they have apent time and resources training you. Find a major exec or a large company's head of HR and they will tell you the same if theyre honest

It literally doesn't matter what degree you do. I did an economics degree then worked in banks and a law firm. But it really doesn't matter. Experience is what matters, not your degree, But you need some type of degree to get a job, but you don't need a specific degree to get most jobs. Just any degree.

It depends on what career you want. Late game, you'll be better off with a bachelor's in economics and an MBA. But a business admin major will have an easier time in the early portion of his career. A lot of it also depends on your career goals. I've noticed that econ majors seem to be good better at finance than business, management, and accounting majors.

t. accounting major

Economics classes tend to stick with the neoliberal "perfect middle of capitalism and socialism" mantra. I'm a Third-Position Corporatist, yet didn't find much propaganda in the textbooks. You might get the occasional rant about women in the workplace or global warming, but it's still far more technical than the other social sciences.

The real propaganda in universities is their social theories. The idea of "the proletariat defeating the bourgeois" doesn't work too well when your followers are all middle-class kids who had everything handed to them by their neoliberal families. But the idea of blacks being oppressed by whites, or gays by straights, or women by men, is the perfect way to divide a society. Their main goal is to try and instill that revolutionary proletarian spirit rather than sticking with any specific group vs group conflict. If you don't show your full powerlevel and just come off as a levelheaded conservative then you'll be find. In general, you'll only find trouble if you go looking for it.

HR is literally next door to my office.
It really is just because there are a metric fuckton of phds on the streets in these fields and there is little to no reason to hire someone with a degree below that. We literally have a phd-count in our annual report, because it looks nice for the shareholders.

unironically what should I do with my music degree?

>I make between $170-220k annually in construction management. Never took a single class
How?