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What should I major in to get the most money?

>> No.5759416

Rich Husband/Wife Sciences.

>> No.5759417

petroleum engineering and then get a job doing field service work, if you're comfortable with the idea of working 80-100 hours a week on salary, and living in a trailer on a drilling pad in the middle of fucking no where for literally weeks to months at a time.

>> No.5759418

Math, business, or engineering.

>> No.5759420

go for under water welding jobs, well payed + lots of adrenaline

>> No.5759424

>>5759412
You should drop out. All of the current billionaires dropped out.

>> No.5759422

>>5759420
you've never touched a welder in your life, have you?

>> No.5759427

>>5759422
What's your point?

>> No.5759434

>>5759427
per the bureau of labor and statistics, the average welder makes about $18/hour mid-career. to be an underwater welder you need certain certifications which, i'm guessing, are very difficult to get. you have to put up with shitty and dangerous work environments which is why the field pays well, and i'm sure there is a lot of competition getting these types of jobs by people who have been welding a lot fucking more than some kid with a few certifications and a couple years of experience.

>> No.5759438

>>5759434
OP asked for a well paid job, i delivered. Where's the problem?

>> No.5759441

>>5759438
then why stop at 'underwater welder' if you're going to suggest other outlandish jobs?

>> No.5759446

>>5759420
Enjoy your 45 year life expectancy.

>> No.5759444

Petroleum Engineering/Drilling Engineering. You'll bust your ass and work 24/7, but you'll be rolling in cash....

>> No.5759448

>>5759441
how about astronut then?

>> No.5759451

>>5759441
or maybe crab fisher in alaska, dollar dollar bill y'all

>> No.5759452

>>5759446
doesnt matter, pays well

>> No.5759460

>>5759412
Stats and comp sci double major, work three to four years in tech, then top 20 school mba.

>> No.5759464

Unless I'm mistaken, you pay to go to college. They don't pay you.

You want "the most money?" Drop out and invent something people want.

>> No.5759499

>>5759464

pretty much this. Mech engineering + designing your own product after a few years + basing a company out of that product = dat der benjamin

>> No.5759554

Something (useful) you don't hate, but a lot of other people dislike doing, and something you are better than average at doing. If you suck at finding petroleum, nobody will pay you to do it. If you hate it, you're not likely to try very hard. your optimal paying job will depend on your strengths, the strengths of your competition, and your ability to leverage the strengths of others

>> No.5759560

>>5759412
Well OP you sure know how to get my attention

>> No.5759562

Probably business

>> No.5759587

I know people have said petroleum engineering but you really want to be careful with it. It's a boom bust industry. If you're willing to risk it somewhat and don't mind the hours it might be a good fit.

I'm in chemical engineering right now, average starting salary is around 60k. I have an internship that pays $20/h and is pretty fun.

if you're looking for big money an engineering with some sort of business minor will cause an interviewers dick to hit the bottom of the table and allows for movement into management.

>> No.5759593

>>5759460
Nice.

>> No.5759599

Go into synthetic biology. The demand has been climbing for the last 3-4 years and will only get higher. Another bonus is you get to play god.

>> No.5759597

>AnCo
/mu/ pls go

>> No.5759694

Ass Kissing

>> No.5759707

>>5759441
The only correct answer is CEO banker/entrepreneur

>> No.5759713

Engineering.

Because then you can moonlight as a gay pornstar and make tons of money.

>> No.5759719

there are different metrics to making the most money?

mean starting salary? median starting salary? mean peak-career salary? median peak-career salary? top potential salary?

If you want the highest guaranteed salary in a job you are likely to be able to get, then yeah geology or petroleum engineering are both pretty good. Also chemical engineering. Also Actuarial science.

But still that's pretty small time compared to the salary you could get if you got on a graduate recruitment scheme as an analyst at a bulge-bracket bank, or a top proprietary trading fund or hedgefund.
But getting a job like that and making those top bucks is a lot harder and requires more motivation, dedication and intelligence and even with those things there will be a degree of luck.

>> No.5759730

>>5759719
I think he meant the most money he could make without a government bailout.

>> No.5759733

Just do what makes you happy. If you make a ton of money but hate your life, it's not worth it.

>> No.5759736

Law

>> No.5759740

>>5759441
Not the same guy. they do make a ton of money but its partly their sinus get fucked up after a few years. I knew a guy in Charleston SC who dove for arrowheads and shark's teeth and stuff for a living and he had to quit after a few years. All divers are very highly paid because it's never a long term career.

>> No.5759744

>>5759599
This is probably a good suggestion. it will certainly grow and it may just explode.

>> No.5759748

>>5759587
What do you do at your internship?

>> No.5759767
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5759767

>PhD in African American Studies
>20k Starting
>any fried chicken i wany

>> No.5759775

>>5759733
But what if making tons of money in a legal and semi-dignified manner is what would make anon happy, then what? Some people dreams are the free-harm money itself, not the job granting it.

>> No.5759815

>>5759775
Well, in that case, win the lottery.

If making money makes you happy, you probably already have a job that's meeting that point. Most people figure out that posting on 4chan =/= making money, but putting in overtime in the coal mines does. If making money makes you happy, then I would think that the job you are doing would be moot, because no job would therefore make you happy.

>> No.5759850

>>5759815
I don't know about you, but id prefer crying in a Porsche than crying on the street.

>> No.5759857 [DELETED] 

Anesthesiology. It pays on average 500,000 dollars a year, by be sure to heed the drawbacks it has.

>high stress
>much education and college needed, you'll probably be near 30 or so when all required training and education is completely finished. and even then, most major hospitals only hire Anesthesiologists with experience.

The problem with getting a career in Anesthesiology is that many High School classes must be coordinated to suit it. So, if you are in High School, get out. If you are eighteen and in High School but not a senior or something, you're probably fucked.

>> No.5759860

>>5759412
Is that Animal Collective?

>> No.5759878

>>5759850
Buying a porsche wouldn't make you happy, you said. Making money would make you happy, you said.

>> No.5759885

>>5759878
Also, any dickweed with a low-to-moderate credit score can get a loan for a cheap, maybe used porsche. Cayennes new start at $46k MSRP (who pays MSRP?) May not be new, but sometimes those older ones are more aesthetically pleasing. And hey, it's a porsche.

Although, most people with lots of money I know don't really buy expensive vehicles for the sake of buying an expensive vehicle.

>> No.5759914

>>5759736
lol are you serious. about 50% of lawyers never get a legal job, the average starting salary for lawyers who do find work is $30-50k/year, and a large portion of lawyers exit the legal 'profession' within 10 years of practice.

>> No.5759918

>>5759857
you have literally no idea what you're talking about, and this is coming from someone who is applying to medical school within the next month.

>> No.5759991

>>5759918
How so?

>> No.5759998

>>5759991
This, I think he means.

http://www1.salary.com/anesthesiologist-Salary.html

No $500,000/yr, So yeah, it may pay good, but not that good.

>> No.5760000

>>5759998
quads get

>> No.5760007

A professor at the Harvard School of Medicine once started his lecture to a group of new students by saying "If you are here to make a lot of money, you are in the wrong building. You should be across the street at the Harvard School of Business."

>> No.5760010

>>5759991
the average anesthesiology can expect to make ~$400k/year mid-career. real-world salaries depend on region and experience. fresh anesthesiology residents might make, i don't know, $300-350k/year a year starting. potentially much lower in urban or suburban areas, and might higher in rural areas. http://www.scribd.com/doc/60145213/2010-MGMA-Physician-Compensation-Survey-Summary

unless you live in europe or some third world shithole country, you don't need to do anything in high school to prepare for medical school. i never thought of being a doctor in high school, the idea only popped in my head when i was a college freshman, and i only got serious about it in my junior and senior years of college. literally NOTHING you do in high school will help you with getting into medical school. volunteering or whatever in high school will get laughed at on a medical school application. high school coursework means jack shit and AP courses cause more problems than they solve because: 1) they're never reflective of actual college-level coursework and 2) some medical schools refuse to accept AP coursework as substitutes for medical school prerequisite classes, and if they do they commonly require students to take additional upper-level science classes in their place to make up for the 'lost' AP credits.

>> No.5760012

>>5760010
not to mention that setting yourself on one medical specialty is stupid because there is no guarantee that you will be smart enough to match into anesthesiology (a relatively competitive specialty), and anesthesiology isn't even the most lucrative specialty out there.

>> No.5760013

>>5760000
>caring about repeating digits on /sci/
You plebs

>> No.5760020

>>5760012
>>5760010
Alright, I'm going to withdraw my statements, I was wrong.

>> No.5760018

>>5760007
that's true for harvard medical and harvard business school students but it's a load of bullshit at business schools that aren't highly ranked. maintain a basic level of competency in medical school and you can match into an uncompetitive family medicine residency where you're more or less guaranteed $150k/year starting salary and about $200k/year mid-career salary, depending on where you want to practice. by the middle of their careers the vast, vast majority of MBA retards will be lucky to hit 75% of a family medicine medicine physician's starting salary.

this isn't to say that you should go into medicine for the money. certain it is one of my motivating factors, but i also think medicine would be an amazing profession to practice. it's really interesting work and you're making a direct and tangible difference in the lives of others.

>> No.5760019

>>5760013
Oh, wait. My name is Carbon, the most pleb element.

DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS.

>> No.5760023

>>5760019
>babby's first troll

>> No.5760024

>>5760019
Carbon is the worst element? Are you fucking serious? Carbon is essential for your life and your body's well being. Virtually all molecules in the body (excluding water) contain Carbon. Sugars, DNA, proteins, fats, all of these contain Carbon. For instance, it forms strong chemical bonds and can form single bonds with up to four other atoms. It can bond to itself. It can also form double and triple bonds. Carbon is one of the only elements, because of its bonding properties, that can create long chain-shaped molecules or ring shaped molecules. These carbon rings and chains form the basis for the fats (fatty acid chains), carbohydrates, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), and proteins that serve as the basis of life. (Although elements, such as oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and others are also needed).

TL;DR: You're dumb.

>> No.5760034

>>5760024
Now where would we be without that grade 10 biology tirade. Thank you.