Now that I see the error of government and have become an anti-statist, I look around at my future options with question marks.
I am in college halfway through my degree, which is business. I recently found out that I abhor business, i.e the accounting/finance/management aspects of it. So I am changing my major, but to what? Now that I have this anti-statist view, I look at some degrees I would have previously been interest in, such as political science, criminology/justice, education, and any other degree relatable with contempt, as nearly everything serves to prop up the state further. Even law school or grad school in the aforementioned degrees to a professing career, etc. are further out of the picture for the same reason.
Do any of you have this dilemma?
Thanks!
Before you change your major, why were you business major?
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
For the practicality of it. I figured I would just get a management job and be the average American. I would like to own a business (OF COURSE!), but that isn't something immediate for me, as the resources aren't there.
I know, becoming an entrepreneuer is perhaps the epitome of free-market anarchism, but for right now I don't have the option to do anything of that caliber (though I am entertaining some summer business ideas to avoid the dreaded Kmarts and such :D )
OldBenjaminNOMORE: For the practicality of it. I figured I would just get a management job and be the average American. I would like to own a business (OF COURSE!), but that isn't something immediate for me, as the resources aren't there. I know, becoming an entrepreneuer is perhaps the epitome of free-market anarchism, but for right now I don't have the option to do anything of that caliber (though I am entertaining some summer business ideas to avoid the dreaded Kmarts and such :D )
OldBenjaminNOMORE:I am in college halfway through my degree, which is business. I recently found out that I abhor business, i.e the accounting/finance/management aspects of it. So I am changing my major, but to what?
Why are you in college at all?
That's the question you should be answering.
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OldBenjaminNOMORE:For the practicality of it. I figured I would just get a management job and be the average American. I would like to own a business (OF COURSE!), but that isn't something immediate for me, as the resources aren't there. I know, becoming an entrepreneuer is perhaps the epitome of free-market anarchism, but for right now I don't have the option to do anything of that caliber (though I am entertaining some summer business ideas to avoid the dreaded Kmarts and such :D )
John James makes an excellent point.
And being an entrepreneur means you are free not to obtain higher education. If you really want to go for it you can give Computer Science / Engineering a shot. Problem solving, logic and math all of which are incredibly useful are to be exercised in this kind of degree. Lots of money is in high tech too.
Computer Science and Engineering are as oversupplied as anything.
+1 JJ
@OP: It's difficult to "cut your losses" but the US education market is insanely inflated right now. I'm assuming you're young and unattached. Here are some brainstorming starters. Don't think of it as advice, just think of it as ideas to get you started thinking:
OK, I'll stop with that. I hope some of that helps you get started.
Clayton -
Move to a different country with more reasonable tuition costs and finish your degree there
I went on a tour of the Seneca College biotech department in Toronto last year and looked at the tuition. It was something like $9,000 for the 3 year program. I decided that I could do something better in 3 years, but Americans would probably drool at that sort of price considering what I've read about what you guys pay for this stuff.
What are you thought on excess student loan money? Would you recommend not accepting it or using it for startup business money?
Use as little of it as possible and use the excess to repay the student loan ASAP. They push this notion that the student loans are "super-cheap" but it doesn't really matter - they're still loans. Even if it was 0% money, you'd still have to pay it back and every dollar of that loan you use for living expenses is a dollar that you're going to have to earn later on in order to pay back the loan.
@ Clayton
Do you think a college graduate is too old for an apprenticeship :P
The Anarch is to the Anarchist what the Monarch is to the Monarchist. -Ernst Jünger
@Jargon: I see no reason why it makes you too old. Apprenticeship at what?
I wrote a post a long time back on this issue and I think that it is wise to approach any job/profession with the mentality of an apprentice, no matter what your official job is. Find the senior, experienced people (not management! ... actual working individuals...) and put yourself in their service. Sooner or later, they'll start teaching you stuff and that's what it's really all about.