Is a degree in economics useful

[Anonymous No.30070244]

[Anonymous No.30070264]

For wiping your ass, yes.

[Anonymous No.30070318]

>>30070244
Only for >>30070264

The jobs you are thinking of with your economics degree all want you to have a math degree instead

[Anonymous No.30070341]

>>30070244
It is interesting - but it does not help for personal finance. Econometrics might be more your speed (if you are literally a genius).

[Anonymous No.30070348]

Depends, if want to go in the finance area yes.
If you want to be an engineer, then no.

[Anonymous No.30070388]

>>30070244
no

[Anonymous No.30070445]

>>30070244
you should be asking if a degree in economics is economical. Obv you're not economically inclined so I would stay away from it d e s u

[Anonymous No.30070450]

do accounting or biz management instead, you're actually learn skills jobs care about. The economics shit you can learn on your own time or make it a minor. Jobs care about how good you are at making spreadsheets and being on top of your shit. Im also going into finance but economics shouldnt be your focus, if you want to make it your major thats fine but make sure you take classes that matter and your degree plan isnt some retarded shit

[Anonymous No.30070470]

>>30070244
If you go to a good school and get internships yes

[Anonymous No.30070477]

No unless you’re at an Ivy League school or you want to go into academia. I highly regret majoring in it.

[Anonymous No.30070481]

>>30070244
no, go for accounting.
actually don't even do that
just go to trade school

[Anonymous No.30070500]

>>30070244
No

[Anonymous No.30070539]

>>30070318
basically this, I wasted 5 years studying that garbage. Economics is a meme.

[Anonymous No.30070571]

>>30070348
Do you actually think an econ major is useful in finance or are you trolling?

[Anonymous No.30070736]

>>30070318
>>30070539
>>30070571


In addition to my original comment, I'd add that pretty much everyone I know who got an Econ degree (I went to a top 15 university) ended up learning how to code after graduating when they realized their econ degree was only one half-step above being an English major

[Anonymous No.30070796]

>>30070571
I work in IB and half my co-workers have an economics degree, so yea. The whole economics is useless is kind of a meme.

[Anonymous No.30070865]

>>30070796
Might differ from country to country tho

[Anonymous No.30071006]

I studied Econ but in my second year I realized it was useless clown science so I added a finance major. Then I graduated and got a job as an accountant kek.
So yes Econ is generally a useless degree and you should add or change it to something useful. That being said, business degrees are not very specialized so it doesn’t reaaaaallly matter that much which one u get. A better move is quit college (if you are less than 2 years into your 4 year) and learn a trade instead and then buy LINK and AVAX. Then farm in the link-avax pool on Pangolin.

[Anonymous No.30071171]

>>30070571
Econ major is good for grad school or as a 2nd major. It goes great with finance or accounting. Especially accounting because if you want to be a CPA you need 150 college credits to take the exam in most states.

[Anonymous No.30071369]

>>30070341
Economics absolutely does help for personal finance and is probably the only degree that's actually practically useful for that purpose. Econometrics is not hard and is elementary applied statistics.

[Anonymous No.30071462]

>>30070244
If you go for phd or have great networks. I have bachelors in economics, but would be a lot happier with csci or math with economics on the side.

[Anonymous No.30071527]

>>30070796
and you probably went to a top 10 school
not everybody is a nolife faggot

[Anonymous No.30071594]

>>30071527
I went to a polytechnic kek

[Anonymous No.30071652]

>>30070244
just buy and hold fagit

[Anonymous No.30071718]

>>30070244
it may be fun and easy, but nobody wants to hire one. accounting or something is demand companies actually need somebody to do that stuff

[Anonymous No.30072127]

how about physics that is like the only stem topic I find really interesting
i don't want to finance or accounting

[Anonymous No.30072335]

My advice to undergrads is to always pair a technical degree (STEM, Econ, Accounting, Finance) with a non technical one (Philosophy, History, English).

I unironically believe there is value in liberal arts. Some of the dumbest people I know are engineers.

t. mid-level senior at bulge bracket asset manager (went to state school)

[Anonymous No.30072649]

>>30070736
This is true, I have an Econ degree and work as a business analyst but I plan on doing a coding boot camp in a year to transition to data

[Anonymous No.30072712]

>>30072335
engineering/programming/physics/architects requires above average visual spatial working memory and almost none verbal memory. so if you have good visual memory it still may suite somebody even tho they are otherwise dumb.

here people can test their visual spatial memory and verbal memory. it is good test to take for people who wonder if they should go for stem or not (score level 12-14 perhaps). one reason there are more men in stem is that they have naturally higher visual spatial
memory than women. verbal memory in women and men are typically equal on average
https://humanbenchmark.com/

[Anonymous No.30072770]

>>30070244
If you make the right contacts during your time in college it's literally a ticket to endless wealth.

[Anonymous No.30072788]

>>30070244
Economics degree is the retarded brother of a finance/maths degree
Theres basically 0 future with it
The jobs you want will prefer a finance/maths degree