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pyro-manic:
Doing a degree in something you're not 100% into is a really bad idea, IMO. The level of intensity of a degree means that you will basically be living and breathing the subject for three years (or more if you're doing a Master's), and if you don't love it you'll end up hating it. Then there's tuition fees and student loans - do you want to run up ~£20,000 of debt on something you don't want to do?

Just my thoughts.

Deucal:
A lot of people have jobs that has nothing to do with their degrees. But having a degree/education is a good thing, it's a always a fall back position :).

Neco:
Yeah, and most people end up changing their major several times from what I hear..

I got a friend who went to college forever, not sure what degree he ended up with or anything, but he first signed up for  computer science,  and ended up hating it by the time he was almost done with it.  I know his general likes of  PC's and games and things have changed over the years too but not sure if it was a result of the hating it,  or the cause because his views on life just changed.

My sister always talked about being a Marine Biologist and whatever she started going to school for didn't last long,  a year or two ago she just up and changed her mind and started taking  Interior Design  courses.


An ex who ditched me with some of the reason being my  making excuses for myself (my health problems, fear of driving etc) and not wanting to "Grow up" or whatever,  is around 100k (Canadian I guess? dunno)  in debt now  because apparently she is the biggest hypocrite in the world and has done everything possible to avoid leaving University and entering the real world.   Was gonna be a doctor, then changed to law school,  and just kept getting student loans, and then getting government aid which required a certain amount of debt to qualify for,  and just kept repeating the debt cycle for the government aid.

But hey, you reap what you sow I guess.

harpy:
have to agree to pyro-manic[edit] and Neco and Deucal [/edit], don't do something you don't feel like doing. I did that and left it after 2 years, now I'm studying philosophy, em, doing my master degree now, and I am feeling quite happy about it, thou I do know that It will not be something I will feed myself with.

Beside - I don't know how it is in other countries, but here employer do not look at your eduction, they even dislike if you have education in field you are supposed to work in(not always of course, mostly its not like that in field of IT, basic are basics), because most of the stuff that is done is not done my book, but as it is done in practice, that might resemble what is in the book, but not always and it is hard to re-educate a person. Not to even talk how wast laws are changing and so on and so on. So - here employers look for persons with work experience and brain, and don't look at education as strictly.

Beside - when you look at statistics you should consider that others do the same and after 3 years it will be completely different.

Beside - mostly we(not only here, em, in Europe, as a EU project manager who happened to talk to whole bunch of people all around EU in past 3 years) lack workers in professional field, not paper pushers. These days most of people want to be paper pushers.

sanguis:
Psychology/Sociology is a pretty blunderbuss degree, it's only once you start going into the higher level degrees that it starts to become "worth it", my dad has a psych degree never ever ever used it; really liked it and really wants to do more - spent the last 20 years in I.T. .... ::)

I would have to agree with pyro-manic above, degrees aren't cheap and it really isn't worth an arm and a leg for a "give it a shot" degree

Having said that i'm probably going to try for a psych degree too next year, either Bach. of Science (psychology) or Bach. of Arts double major of Psychology and Writing ('cause, ya'know... I hate myself!)

But my brother finished his Bach. of Communication (minor of Game design) and has a vaguely successful film career.


Degrees are those weird things, those who have the passion for a subject tend to do the degree either as an afterthought or for promotion, where as those of us (most of us) who tend to wonder through life we expect getting a degree to solve everything.

anyway that's my AUD$0.02

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