MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Professional Gamer vs Neurosurgeon

> I have friends who ended up with majors they never used. Their degrees are only
> helpful with jobs that ask for a bachelors degree with no specifics for major. Some
> really unusable stuff like anthropology, psychology, English... There was no career
> guidance whatsoever in high school back then, not sure what it's like now.

The problem is a lot of kids pick a major that sounds interesting, and don't think it through any further than that. Someone needs to push them to think about what happens after. If you want to study one of the "pure" subjects, and you plan to do research and teach and stay in academia, fine. But if you think you're just going to wander out into the street and someone is just going to hand you a job, maybe you should consider something else. The plan may change radically by graduation, but you should still have one going in.

I have a music degree, and today I'm a computer programmer. I went in planning to study music technology and become a recording engineer. 2-3 years in, I discovered that the pro recording industry was imploding, and I was basically never going to make any money doing it. I started readjusting my focus, and eventually landed an internship and then a job doing QA for a music software company. After 10 years of QA, I started writing more and more code and eventually became a developer. So I'm not technically working in the field I studied, but at the same time, I never would have ended up where I am today without the experiences I had and contacts I made in college.