The most unsatisfying degrees ranked by college degree

The market seems to value quantitative skills where an employee can make money for their company such as those in finance, accounting, etc. The market also values problem solving skills such as medicine, law, and tech skills. Those types of skills are the ones that the market values the most.

In college they advise you to get any degree because college faculty say that unless you go into something specific then most employers want to see that you have a college education. But the problem is that many industries require specific degrees. In some careers such as those in sales they want you to have any 4 year degree.

It seems that people with liberal arts degrees take awhile to find jobs, some of them don’t find jobs and go back to college for a second bachelor’s degree or go to a community college for technical skills. Some professors are even advising for people to not go to grad school for another liberal arts degree.

http://chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/44846

I’m not trying to make my post a technical vs. liberal arts degree. I think the expectation for college these days has changed. People used to go to college for higher learning but now people want to also come out with practical skills so they can support themselves. Back when our grandparents went to college a lot of employers were happy to have college graduates because so few people went to college. So any college degree was good to have, but the truth is these days the market values specialization.

Employers were also willing to hire high school graduates and provide on job training back in our grandparents days. These days they don’t really want to train and want you to know the basics already. A college degree is used to screen applicants for an interview since so many people want jobs.

You know that's really weird. One would think that psychiatrists make quite a bit of money. Or at least I paid mine quite a bit, and apparently that fee wasn't a very high one either. As for Economists, I think the market (well in my country at any rate) is already saturated with them.
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And here I was considering going back to university.. "Back to School" anyone?
In fairness, being in my late 30's, working towards a degree part-time at this point would be more about personal accomplishment than monetary gain anyhow.

For the moment, I'm still struggling with whether the personal accomplishment I would get out of completing a degree would ultimately be worth the rather high cost of doing so.
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I'm a Chem Engineer.. but there is NO correlation between my Chem E major and what I'm doing in my semiconductor job now… probably because I focused on BioEng.

I guess I'm satisfied in that I feel pretty stable right now as far as career path goes….I'm just happy to have a decent paying job….. but this definitely isn't my passion. Honestly I chose the major because at the time I disliked chemistry the least and Chem E had (and still has) a ton of job prospects. If I ever won the lotto I'd be outta there, stat!!

It seems that if you want a job that pays well you need to go into something practical like nursing, accounting, programming, etc. I would have loved to have majored in art history or graphic design, but I realized that many people with those degrees struggle. I'm tired of being poor and I get teased about being an accounting major, but I know it will always give me the ability to provide for myself.

I also think that with certain subjects you don't need to go to college to learn them, like art history. I can learn about it by going to the library. So that saves me money too. I also think having at least a 2 year degree makes you stand out, I'm going for my 4 year in accounting, but having some degree makes you stand out and it makes you look like you care about knowledge and that you committed yourself to something.

Its the best way to prove you did something positive with your life when you have to interview with a boss especially when they might not know anything about you. College used to be the sort of place where you went purely for knowledge but our world has changed so rapidly, college has turned not only a place for knowledge but a place where you need to pick up vital work skills if you want to survive and not become homeless.

I'm not saying that practicality is what matters, because it does matter, I also think its important to go for your dreams but sometimes you need to do a practical job until you can do the job that you love.

In addition to the psych degree needing more schooling, a lot of people I knew chose psychology because they didn’t know what they wanted to do, but they thought psych was interesting. So the lack of satisfaction may be partially an effect of people who still don’t know what they want to do.

I love that art major isn’t listed on there. I can guarantee that the level of satisfaction is much higher, even the pay is probably much lower. The “other majors” category is just silly. It made my giggle.

Ha! My degree is in history and my minor was marketing. I’m fairly happy with my job but I’m in sales, not doing anything related to history. I tried looking for a job in marketing but that was about impossible when I was searching for my current job. I’m surprised that economics is so low on the scale.

Well, "satisfaction" with one's job depends on the person's own self-perception and overall happiness in addition to factors such as employment, income, work environment.

It's obviously not true of everyone in the major, but there are a lot of Psychology majors who select the major because of their own experiences with therapy/psychologists or psychological issues. Someone who struggles with anxiety or depression, for example, is less likely to be satisfied with his or her job…