https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:58:01 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255332 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:09:27 +0000 looch 1255332@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I chose a great one for me, finance. I also have my masters in information systems, which is a perfect combo for my job as a business project manager for a bank.</p> <p>My degree paid for itself by the time I was 27, so I think I made a great decision. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255245 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:18:26 +0000 sarac 1255245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nah, I'm happy with my double in genetics and Russian. I'm trying to transition away from a career in lab work to one in a museum, though. Had I known that, I'd have done some different internships or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255214 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:25:55 +0000 Sapphiresun 1255214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes. I have a Criminology Major/Psychology Minor and do work in my field. I've been a victim' services worker, 911 call taker during schooling, and now am a program coordinator, and I enjoy my job and am usually glad that I do "important" work. But kind of wish I would have picked a more lucrative field, and just helped people in my spare time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255202 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 01:11:33 +0000 Penny Lane 1255202@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>omg, yes. I loved doing my classes, but the degree itself is useless. </p> <p>if I could do it again I would do something more specific, like accounting, nursing, law, radiation therapy, compsci, engineering, radiology... something that lends itself easily to a specific career. no one cares about a bachelors degree in linguistics! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255179 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:09:06 +0000 LovelyPlum 1255179@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! Loved it! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255177 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 00:08:29 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1255177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Absolutely. I'm home now with the kids, but when I want go back to work I will definitely need to change directions and get an MA in something else. I really wish I had thought about what job I would actually want/enjoy from the get go. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255117 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:48:10 +0000 dojo 1255117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lulibee: lol twinsees! I worked in a museum too!!! I work in cancer research now mostly admin work for different studies. After I left the whole 'art world' I worked with kids, then customer service/front desk which landed me working in a cancer treatment clinic with the help of some connections. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255115 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:42:02 +0000 jaypegs 1255115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe. I'm the rare art historian (BA and MA) that actually works in the field (an art museum anyway). I love what I do, and I'm getting great training that will hopefully let me advance, budget permitting, but I've been there for almost 4 years, am in a low level position and don't make much. I graduated with my MA in 2009, which was a terrible time to enter the job market. Sometimes I think it would be easier (I would be "farther along") if I had pursued a job, rather than a passion. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255109 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:34:43 +0000 lulibee 1255109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@dojo: I swear I didn't read your response before I posted mine...haha too funny</p> <p>What are you doing now??? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255108 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:34:23 +0000 lulibee 1255108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>deleted </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255107 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:33:14 +0000 lulibee 1255107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. I was a fine arts major, and although I've worked in a museum, I didn't do anything I'd consider career worthy. I'm currently staying at home with my 6 month old, but will be looking for work soon, and don't even want to think about the dreaded job search again. I feel that if I had a career, I could more easily find a job and not wonder what exactly I'd be doing next.</p> <p>I'd probably stick to my original math (and science) major and be an engineer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255096 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:25:36 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1255096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes... I have a bachelor of commerce with a major in marketing and I work in my field. But my DH went to school for the same length of time as I did at the same university, but for engineering.. and he literally makes 4 time as much as I do!! So sometimes I think I should have tried that. However, not sure I would have been successful! haha :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255037 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:44:41 +0000 dojo 1255037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For sure! I enjoyed my major (Fine Arts - Painting) while in school but it didn't really pan out career wise (DUH!). I wish I would have stuck with something more technical or something in the sciences. I always did really well in those areas and even went back to school to try and pursue an engineering degree for a little while (it just became too much to try and be full-time student while trying to work full time and think about getting married buying a house). It took a little while but I've worked my way up and now I feel like I'm going in a good direction in my current position. I just wish I would have thought more about it before deciding on a major - serious advice I will pass along to my child(ren). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1255008 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:28:35 +0000 jessibear 1255008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a very generic Communications degree but I love it and I loved my courses while in college. In my area, a Communications degree is pretty employable, particularly with decent work experience. </p> <p>However, I wish I'd chosen a different minor. I ended up with a minor in Journalism because it was a common combo for Communications majors at my school. I never intended to go into a journalism field. I wish I'd taken the opportunity to either get a little more education in business or human resources, or to explore women's studies or geriatrics. Hind sight is 20-20, though, and at 19 and 20 I had no clue I would be interested in any of those things down the road. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254962 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:02:34 +0000 brownie 1254962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love my degree computer science but I want to get a masters in child development and data analysis now. And maybe a secondary education degree. I jut want to do everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254932 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:46:30 +0000 mlm2934 1254932@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what I would have done, but I often wish I had a job that involved non-business job. </p> <p>@lemondrop: zoology was one of daydream majors... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254918 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:41:34 +0000 yellowbird 1254918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! I love my job! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254858 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:09:11 +0000 stargal 1254858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>nope currently a social work major and I really really like the field! I mean the pay sucks but I knew that going into it but there are always a need for social workers :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254852 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:06:32 +0000 matador84 1254852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love my history major and my masters in education, but I would love to go into nursing or medicine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254834 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:56:40 +0000 sunny 1254834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No I don't think so. I was a computer science major and I enjoy the work that I do. I probably would have taken more stats classes though and maybe considered a graduate degree in data science had I known where the industry was heading. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254828 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:53:42 +0000 lemondrop 1254828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, I still use my Zoology and Animal Science majors most days working part time. I wish I had added in some education classes too, but I do a lot of continuing education in that, so it hasn't hurt me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254727 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:15:10 +0000 spaniellove 1254727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I learned a lot from the major I switched to (psychology) and my MSEd, but I wish I'd toughed it out and stuck with my original major, bioengineering. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254654 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:21:23 +0000 MamaCate 1254654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DillonLion: I was a philosophy major too! I loved it at the time but I am not sure it was the most practical thing . No regrets about my college experience though. </p> <p>I now have an MSW so I learned to be more practical later on I guess... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254652 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:20:01 +0000 deactivated_account 1254652@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably. My undergrad degree was in political science. I don't really consider myself a political scientist. What good was that?? :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254650 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:19:41 +0000 MediaNaranja 1254650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loved my major, but I'm not so jazzed on my graduate degree. I'm struggling now to find work in my chosen field. Undergrad major was environmental science, grad degree is in public policy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254648 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:19:16 +0000 Weagle 1254648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would have chosen something that would make part-time work easier to find. Though, that's partially a problem in my area, not just my degree. </p> <p>@ILoveLettie: Where are you going to seminary? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254640 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:14:15 +0000 ILoveLettie 1254640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't have (though I graduated fairly recently, so we'll see if I go back and change my mind later!). I chose an "unemployable", liberal arts major--religion--but I chose it not only because I knew it was my passion and I loved studying it, but I knew what I wanted to do with it after I graduated: go to seminary. You can have pretty much any undergraduate degree before seminary, but I definitely think my religion background prepared me for masters-level religious studies and that I'm ahead of the game because of it. Because of that, I'll encourage our daughter to major in a field she loves even if it's not "profitable"--as long as she has a plan for what to do with it afterwards and plans to pursue graduate school if it's not immediately employable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254634 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:07:06 +0000 DillonLion 1254634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitelty. Would have done education instead of philosophy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254620 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:58:42 +0000 BSB 1254620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, I don't think so. I think I'm fairly smart with computers and sometimes I wish I was in the computer industry but I really sucked at the computer programing class I took. I'm pretty happy with the Biology major with psych concentration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/would-you-change-your-major#post-1254612 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:54:38 +0000 ElbieKay 1254612@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm glad I majored in math, but I wish I had completed my music history major instead of just minoring in it. </p>