I was pondering again for a potential student what would be some of the best college majors they could choose from. Given that most people change jobs and careers often out of either choice or forced by economic circumstances it seems majoring in something in college that gives you transferable skills that can be applied to many different jobs and career paths is ideal.
Majors I was thinking of
MBA
Mathematics
Accounting/ Finance
Engineering
Health Care
Biology
Chemistry
Social Services
Technology
What are your ideas?
You are on the right path. Basically STEM skills. Anything which teaches you how to think and solve problems can be applied as a valuable asset across a wide swath of job titles.
Troubleshooting skills, problem-solving skills.
Social services is kind of specialized.
Chemistry is a little specialized.
Biology is a little specialized.
In any of those three, you may change jobs or job titles, but will likely stay in the same field.
Healthcare is highly specialized unless you are just talking about office/clerical work.
Same with accounting.
Mathematics is pretty vague and broad unless you are talking about pure theory and research.
The problem with the above I've listed is that if you are already being displaced in your present job, why would you think there would be openings elsewhere?
I was highly interested in astronomy and space science growing up but when I got to HS, I switched my interest to electrical engineering because I realized there is not only a limited demand for astronomers, but to work as one, I would likely have to relocate to and work at a university which I didn't want to do. And at that, you have to petition for grants to finance your work, teach, and express interests in areas of grant money to which have appeal to the financial backers as interesting to THEM to back not necessarily areas of which YOU are interested in studying.
Electronic technology, communication technology, technician troubleshooting, big demand for those. Everything is voltage, current and resistance--- if you can troubleshoot, repair, solve problems, etc., in one field, you can do so in many others.
Same with electronic and electrical engineering. Most everything today has electronics in it, operates off electricity, so if you can design/engineer in one field, you can pretty much do in another. I worked in many fields as an engineer, both telecommunications, heavy industry manufacturing, metallurgy, and even music/broadcast.
Computer science is another, that is all electronic/electrical on the hardware end, but there is also the software end, programming. But I think the market is rather glutted with programmers and most of that work is out on the West Coast.
