/sci/ - Science & Math

[blackman No.2247240]

All right, so I'm freshman and my major is undecided, but my courses have a heavy emphasis on Chinese language and culture as I plan on doing something that involves interpreting or translating. Essentially it comes down to whether I want to work in a field of politics or business. I'm fairly certain a business career will earn substantially more, but I'm mathematically inept. I'd rather my GPA not go to shits because of calc and accounting classes, so what to do :(?
TLDR: Mathematically inept, want to take up a career in business 'cause I love the green, but don't know what to do. An hero isn't an option.

[Anonymous No.2247259]

>wants money
>sucks at math
Are you sure you're not a premed?

[Anonymous No.2247264]

I love that picture Op. Good job.

[Anonymous No.2247393]

>>2247259
Lawl

[Anonymous No.2247416]

Become a hardcore mobster
????
profit

[Anonymous No.2247431]

> want to take up a career in business 'cause I love the green

First, you should grow up and realise that having a good career does not necessarily mean earning lots of money.

[Anonymous No.2247478]

inb4 unstable career earning ~30k a year, killing yourself at age 35. either get your shit together, or figure out what part of "business" you want to do. if its just translating then you better know people, bro. take easy classes, get a mildly respectable major undergrad, get your math shit together on your own outside of class. your choice in major now generally doesn't matter toward what career you're going into (unless you do communications or art/english, then its understandably ass on your resume, so do extra-curricular shit/intern/etc). if your mentality about the green doesn't change, and your math skills blow with no outrageous talent elsewhere, good luck man, make your suicide awesome at least.

[Anonymous No.2247499]

>>2247240
Technology will degrade the value (and thus income) of translators significantly, here's a good example of a trend you can expect to continue, http://questvisual.com/

I wouldn't recommend studying any language unless you were super serious about it for some reason.

[Anonymous No.2247511]

>>2247431
Facetiousness :/... I understand this, however I'm rather confident when I say that I can find a job that entails relatively high pay for those with knowledge of an 'in demand' language.

[Anonymous No.2247525]

If you can't handle the level of math required for a major in business, you should probably just drop out of college and go learn to be a plumber or some other highly skilled laborer.

No, seriously, I mean that. At most colleges you need only take up to mathematical modeling or college algebra for most business majors. The more elite colleges require "business calculus" but that's mostly because those types of colleges don't offer any math below the calculus I level (so if you got into one of those you should be able to handle it). If you can't handle that level of math you're not going to be able to do any major except the humanities or social sciences, neither of which are going to make you money. Meanwhile highly skilled trades like HVAC repair actually make surprisingly good pay, don't require you to go deep into debt to get a degree, and only ask that you not be *too* retarded.

[blackman No.2247531]

>>2247431
Facetiousness
>>2247499
I am super serious, it's sort of like a fetish. I'm not worried until it gets to the point where technology can actually accurately translate complex passages (as in classical Chinese) without any grammatical errors. Which I don't foresee happening anytime soon.

[Anonymous No.2247545]

>>2247240
An hero isn't an option.


It "a hero". Even William Buckley got this wrong. You use the enunication rule. The consonant is pronounced so you don't need to use 'an' before hero. With the word 'hour' you use 'an' because you don't pronounce the 'h'.

[Anonymous No.2247550]

>>2247545
Holy shit. How fucking clueless can you be?

I hate this board so much.

[blackman No.2247556]

>>2247550
>>2247545

[Anonymous No.2247565]

>>2247531
>Which I don't foresee happening anytime soon.

It will happen soon. Don't bank your career on it.

[blackman No.2247572]

>>2247565
Google Translator has been around since 2007 and it is still

As someone said on this Quest Visual translator, "Well.. the translations are not precise..

Most of the video's spanish is arranged in a way that the english translation looks perfect (but the spanish sentence is all broken or doesn't make sense)"

I'll just move to China once I lose my job in America.

[blackman No.2247575]

>>2247572
still shit*

[Anonymous No.2247590]

>>2247545

[Anonymous No.2247596]

>>2247572
Why not, instead, become that technologist who makes (in this case) Chinese translations accurate and expedient?

You'd become a millionaire.

[Anonymous No.2247601]

try the app 'wordlens'. It looks very promising

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