This Degree Just Ain’t For Me
Posted on October 13th, 2008
Today I was sitting in class, not completely paying attention to a demonstation of I don’t know what, and I realized that I need to change my major. Right now my major is Political Science, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is an absolutely bogus degree, considering I have no real passion for politics.
“Many political science graduates pursue careers in government or public service, either as elected politicians, support staffers, or consulting analysts.”
Sorry, you are not a winner. None of this sounds appealing to me. You might as well tell me I’m doomed to spend the rest of my life copying words from the dictionary.
My initial decision to major in Political Science was fueled by a pipe dream of attending law school. And the only kind of lawyer I would ever be would be the kind of public attorney that criminals are assigned if they can’t afford anything better. And from my understanding, this kind of attorney hardly makes more than a teacher. Or a trash man.
And it’s not that I only care about money, but let’s get serious here. I’m packing on hundreds of millions of trillions of dollars of debt by going to my school. It doesn’t even make sense to be here, persuing a degree that holds none of my interest, so I can dump another five-freaking-trillion dollars into law school and become an attorney - which I only half-heartedly want to do anymore - to ultimately only be making about five cents a year. I’m exaggerating, of course, but you get the idea.
So at the moment, I’m thinking I should try my hand at a Criminal Justice degree, with a specialization in Criminalistics. I figure even IF I make about the same (or even slightly less) than I would have as an attorney, it doesn’t really matter, because I would have saved about $75,000 by not going to law school. Win all around.
Besides, my ultimate goal is to work and save up money for more or less a decade, then open a dog shelter/resort place. At least if I got a degree in Criminal Justice, I’d be learning about stuff that really interests me and then getting a really cool job, as opposed to be bored for the next quadrillion years before I can do what I really want.
And let me ask you this - what course sounds better: Body Fluids as Evidence, or American Federal Government? See, exactly. Criminal Justice wins all.
I have friends in criminology and it’s so interesting. Good luck finding a new major!
I’m kind of the other way around! I’m almost finished my normal degree, and thinking about potentially pursuing further study in the politics field…we’ll see what happens!
Have fun with criminology though, from what I hear it’s a really interesting field of study.
Criminology is always an exciting field, from what I’ve heard. If I wasn’t into medicine, I’d more likely be majoring in Criminology.
I have a friend that finished a criminology degree and works as a parole officer and hates it. He makes good money so he sticks with it. I keep telling him there are so many other more exciting areas to put that degree into use.
I changed my major five times before settling on web design and development. Sure, I’ll probably never be rich - I’m counting on the crap shot of a chance of winning the lottery for that - but I’m much happier than I was trying to become a speech pathologist or social worker or nurse or database manager, or physical therapist.
Well, I’ve changed my major three times and I think this time I aced it, but I am not really sure what I’ll be able to do once I’m done. I’ve accumulated a good debt, so this isn’t very fun.
I hope you do find a major that satisfy you and that you can make use of. Good luck!
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I’m actually considering switching my masters from Counseling Psychology to Criminology. Ultimately what I really want is a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, but this Counseling thing doesn’t spark anything within. I am so bored with my classes right now, it’s not even funny! At least a Masters in Criminology would give me a stronger base in Forensics. We’ll see what happens.