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March 29, 2010I completed my minor in psychology and now need a major, I might also get another minor in business administration. I would go for the major in business as you can earn more money (which is very important to me) but I am uncannily poor at math . i am trying to find a valuable major without much math and i am interested in media production (such as film).
I completed my minor in psychology and now need a major, I might also get another minor in business administration. I would go for the major in business as you can earn more money (which is very important to me) but I am uncannily poor at math . i am trying to find a valuable major without much math and i am interested in media production (such as film).
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It has very little value if you’d like to be an accountant. It’s pretty good if you’d like a job in advertising. It will be nearly worthless for a job in film making.
Are you sure you want to be picking your major this way? It’s not going to work out very well for you. Instead, why not pick the career you’d like to enter and then get the education that’s required for that career field?
Pick a job. Read about that job. Get a degree in whatever people in that job get degrees in. Get that job. Works really well that way.
Pick a major. Then read about jobs. Try to get a job in a field that doesn’t value your major. Don’t get a job. Not so effective.
There is no such thing as “a valuable major” - majors don’t get jobs. Jobs (occupations) have value - that’s what you get paid for. Some jobs require a certain college degree. But, you can be a bartender with an MD degree and will only make what bartenders make. You can’t be a medical doctor without an MD (or DO) though.
Bottom line - pick the career first. Then pick a major that works for that career.
Special note: Comms is a good general major in that it provides one of two skills that employers say they need more of - people with “the ability to communicate well orally and in writing”. The other skill they need more of is higher math literacy. Learn some math - most of the better paying occupations out there require math skills.