College Major Reflection

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Reflection of ‘The Economic Guide to Picking a College Major’


Like every article, there were a few words that I couldn’t understand or comprehend. A few were Skepticism, fraught, Actuarial, correlation, and lucrative. Correlation means having a mutual connection between two or more things. The author used it in a manner of comparing a major of how popular and lucrative it is. Lucrative means to produce a great deal of profit. I came to the assumption of why the author put this in the text because, like I said before, the author had compared two key concepts when it came to choosing college majors.
As it says in the text that other students go for the major that earns more or the most income in their career. For example, graduating a degree in petroleum engineering’s, one of the highest paying majors, average income is $110,000, five times more than the salary of a degree in library science. There are clear differences in the income earnings between …show more content…

I don’t care about the salary, income, or profit that comes with my dream major. I want to major in Criminal Justice/Social, and am going to need a four year bachelor’s degree. The income doesn’t worry me as long as I will be pursuing a job that makes me happy and doing something that I love to do for a living. The salary for an FBI agent ( Federal Bureau of Investigation) is varied from about $43,500 to $69,900 depending on your status. The thing is, yeah I care for the salary, but it isn’t why I want to become what I want to be come. The reason for this is because this is what I want to do with the rest of my life. I want to be happy at what I do and what I make isn’t based off of that, rather than working for a job that has a salary that I can live for but be miserable. As you wanting to be a teacher, and not a cashier at McDonald’s. Wouldn’t you chose the

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