A few days ago
livestorun

What major should I choose?

I’m almost done high school and I’ve excelled in math and science but I hate computers. I also don’t like literature, history or forgien language. I’m looking for a career that pays well so I can support a family, yet not one that takes up my entire life. I want a job where I can live in one spot and not have to move all over the country and not have to study abroad in college. Does anyone have any ideas for major where I can use my math and science skills with few or none of the drawbacks?

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A few days ago
Shana N

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There are career counseling programs online where you can take a test that will give you potential career suggestions. I currently have a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice, a Master’s in Human Services with a CJ specialization, and am working on a Counseling PhD. Get a college catalog from your local college or where you want to attend. You need to understand ALL college degrees require humanities courses in the hopes of making you well rounded. Ultimately, earning a BS does not teach you how to be a so and so worker but it shows employers that you can jump through hoops for their company.

If I had to suggest a stable good paying option that utilizes your current skills (as you have described) I would suggest Civil Engineering. There is always a need for engineers and most colleges have some type of program that can accomplish this. Engineers make good money and can be found in every city and state.

Hope this helps. Good Luck!

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Consider geography, which most Americans do not know what it is, how flexible of a field it is, or how many jobs are out there for geographers. It is the field to go into if you love all sciences, and you want to keep all your options open. I am a geographer, who works as a research scientist with water issues (law, policy, rights, hydrology, etc.) and Native American rights. My husband is a geographer, who is an environmental planner for a county government (great benefits, pay, vacation/sick time, and pension).

I am not a huge fan of Wikipedia, but I found this to be surprisingly accurate when it came to a simple way to define the field of geography:

Geography (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning “Earth”, and graphein (γραφειν) meaning “to describe” or “to write”or “to map”) is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.[1] A literal translation would be “to describe the Earth”. The first person to use the word “geography” was Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences.[2] Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities– not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. As “the bridge between the human and physical sciences,” geography is divided into two main branches – human geography and physical geography.[3]

Check this page out for additional details about the field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

and

http://www.aag.org/

Here are some popular jobs you can do with a BA/BS in geography:

Urban Planner/Community Development

Cartographer

GIS Specialist

Climatologist

Transportation management

Environmental Management

Writer/Researcher

Teaching/Faculty

Emergency Management

Demographer

Marketing

Librarian/Information Scientist

National Park Service Ranger

Real Estate Appraisal

Biogeography (combo of biology and geography)

Geomorphology (combo of geology and geography)

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A few days ago
Anonymous
if you go to the princetonreview.com, there are lists of majors according to category that you could look up
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A few days ago
RayeKaye
How about pharmacy? Pharmacists make great money.
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