>undergrad: b.a. economics (focus on history of economic thought) >masters: m.sc. applied economics (econometrics/economic forecasting) Lessons learned would be how to understand statistical modeling and how use statistics to make informed decisions. Ended up doing project management in the aerospace industry. so I use literally 0% of my degree kek.
Do not under ANY circumstances focus on history of economic thought. It is entirely useless in the marketplace. I have a significant understanding of Smith, Marx, Say, Marginalism, Keynesian economics and it's derivatives (new, post, etc.), Austrian, blah blah blah. All great stuff to know if you're interested in classical political economy, philosophy, blah blah. But, yeah, pointless. Glad I took a stats/math heavy masters. Got accepted into a heterodox PhD program because of my background in economic thought, but didn't go.
Long story short, economics, particularly microeconomics, financial economics, and econometrics/forecasting is extremely in demand and useful, but don't be a dumbass like me and do economic thought as an undergrad. As stated, ended up doing project management anyways. Happened to have a HR person who "struggled" with basic micro/macro and hired me huehuehue. For some reason normies are impressed with econ, but it's a pretty low-tier degree imo. There are much better options but it's a solid alternative to a business degree.
Willing to answer questions about econ in uni if anyone has any.
That's why meta analysis exist, we discover a lot of papers that under rough scrutiny we can say "wait, this is dumb shit" but the results of meta analysis are usually not understand or cared by general population
Charles Torres
Psychology
Taught me a lo of useful coping skills for all sorts of situations in life, and also how to deal with people better.
Lucas Green
I want to say Jack didily shit. But there are people that I know without a degree and they seem to be pretty stupid in some way.
There is something missing that I cant pinpoint
Mason Gomez
The amount of onions in that image is beyond measure.
Jacob Reyes
Maybe the mental way they process information given to them? That's usually the neurological change college does to everybody
Adrian Robinson
I didn't learn anything from my degree but it did get me my first job by pretending I learned something
Oliver Hernandez
Unironically glad I majored in philosophy, landed a dope job based on knowing people anyway and now I don’t think like a fucking retard. I can’t stand most people though, almost no one actually knows what logic is, let alone understands how to apply one of its systems, and most people just cloak their raw feelings in the pretense of forethought, hating or preferring things for no deeper reason than their surface-level sense.
So it’s lonely but constantly validating
Hunter Wood
that's because the whole "college is a scam" argument is a big ass fallacy. Only people who chose shitty courses like gender studies, arts, language studies or some field that has 0 market applicability complain about it.
College changed my view on the world completely, and also taught me to think for myself and analyse events around me analytically instead of just taking a "specialists" opinion on the matter. I also learned how to learn for myself, which was the most important of the things I guess
Luke Garcia
I like logic, but only met few people in my life that had a solid grasp on it without resorting to logical fallacies when debating
