Econ major currently working as a financial advisor here. My impression is that the major itself was nearly useless, but it points you towards an industry(finance) that has real job prospects and remarkably high compensation for those who are good at it. The coursework isn’t much more relevant than poli sci to my job, but poli sci majors go to law school and then flip burgers to pay off their crippling debts, or if they’re there because they like politics, they go work 80 hour weeks on the Hill for $30k.
Not many econ majors do either of those things—we go work for banks. Not because of the money per se(though obviously, I’m pro-getting-paid), but because what else does one do with an econ degree?
Econ major currently working as a financial advisor here. My impression is that the major itself was nearly useless, but it points you towards an industry(finance) that has real job prospects and remarkably high compensation for those who are good at it. The coursework isn’t much more relevant than poli sci to my job, but poli sci majors go to law school and then flip burgers to pay off their crippling debts, or if they’re there because they like politics, they go work 80 hour weeks on the Hill for $30k.
Not many econ majors do either of those things—we go work for banks. Not because of the money per se(though obviously, I’m pro-getting-paid), but because what else does one do with an econ degree?