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writes:I'm graduating next year and I having a heard time choosing a major my choices are business management and graphic design. I can't choose between the because it's pros and cons the reasons are I love to draw industrial design and graphic design is what I wanna do. But I worried that jobs aren't big out their and it may not pay as much. I get a feeling that design it's a big career. I wanna take business because business you can make a lot of money. I feel that going to college for that will challenge me to something different but I don't know nothing about business I'm scared that I may get in the classes and It won't interest me and it looks kinda I just may give up. Should I do a major I like or challenge myself to something new that I have a Interest in?
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 December 2011):
My advice is to major in what you love: graphic design. You can get a job doing that. Try to find an employer who will then send you to get an MBA. If it turns out you hate business then you will done what you love and if you really get into business an MBA will you help more anyway.
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reader, Odds +, writes (21 December 2011):
 You need a practical skillset to go with the business major, or it will not pay off the way the college is telling you it will. Lots of business majors are pretty desperate for jobs right now. Graphic design can be a good practical skill, if its focused on something useful like industrial design.
Another thing to consider is which major you'll be able to focus on and succeed in best. Check on your financial situation - do you have the luxury of taking an extra year to shop around for classes, or the extra two years from changing majors? If not, pick whichever you'll be able to really apply yourself to.
I'd say take business, but also take a bunch of graphic design classes and at least minor in it. Develop the skillset to set you apart from other job-seekers.
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 December 2011): My first portion of advice is simple: major in something that will make you marketable and able to get a job once you graduate college. I have a great deal of friends who majored in relatively useless things (Latin, women's studies, etc.), and they are now working as nannies. Not to bash nannies, but you don't need a four year education to be a nanny if that is what you really desire. If you major in business, I would recommend focusing in finance or accounting. Although there is not necessarily as much earning potential in graphics design, you would likely still be able to get a job doing something relevant to the degree. You could always double major in both, major in one and minor in the other, etc. After all, perhaps you would be interested in starting your own graphics design business, in which case knowledge of both would be necessary. Good luck over the next several years!
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reader, anonymous, writes (21 December 2011): My late father was a senior executive at a large corporation yet he always regretted majoring in business administration.
His advice, paraphrased: Business degrees are useless. All they teach you is how to be president of a company. Everything I knew about business I learned by being in business. If you want to go into business, major in anything BUT business. Don't go to college to learn how to run a business, go to college to learn how to think. If you know how to think you can be successful in any business.
I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty my father would advise you to "challenge [yourself] to something new that [you] have an interest in" because being successful in business means rising to challenges, which is exactly what business school DIDN'T teach him.
Good luck.
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reader, So_Very_Confused +, writes (21 December 2011):
 why not have a double major?
I have a degree in psychology but i do computer security for a living... lots of times just having a degree is the important part...
also you can change majors at any time.... I started out in Elementary Education....
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