Economics Degree

[bunnymt]

Bunny the only thing I would do with it would be to teach.

PHD in Mathematics! I'm impressed! I think Matt is a math major as well.

Matt who..."the skywalker?" Awesome. I will have to chat with him. So you want to be a teacher? Apparently you enjoy CS if you want to pursue it in your future; are you/did you study Java or C++?

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Definitely pursue the phD in CS...you won't regret it. There are so many opportunities for CS oriented people nowadays. Lots of money in the CS, telecommunications, programming field. Congrats on your achievements.
btw...I am going to be attending graduate school for my phd in mathematics in January. Looking forward to it.

bunny

I disagree. Are you in France?

In the US, no field has lost more money over the past few years than telecom. Programming is taking a bath because a lot of software is automated, so fewer people are needed. Most technology firms are losing money.

PhD is Math is solid. (My undergrad degree is in Math.) Good luck with that.

 

[bunnymt]

I disagree. Are you in France?

In the US, no field has lost more money over the past few years than telecom. Programming is taking a bath because a lot of software is automated, so fewer people are needed. Most technology firms are losing money.

PhD is Math is solid. (My undergrad degree is in Math.) Good luck with that.

I study in France. I had thought that the telecommunications field is booming. Maybe I was mistaken. Have you finished your undergrad? PM me if you would like...

bunny

 

[slickdadd]

I'm an econ major as well Mr. Destiny. Still in my undergrad so i can't really speak from experience or anything. I just think rather then a lot of majors it will actually pay off. Get some bang for the buck. No point in just going to college just to be part of the norm and get by. I see it as a very good investment of time.

 

[TN MuscleBear]

For your goals I disagree with most of the posts here regarding the PhD -

Econ is a great basic undergrad degree - as is math or Poli-sci or history or literature - for your goals go econ or poli-sci

Then get an MBA.

That is all.

 

[VicTusDeuS]

Im a finance/econ major. You pretty much can do anything and work in any field. People see a person having a degree in economics having a good understanding of the world around them. You learn to look at things in an analytical way.

 

[Mr. Destiny]

slickdad and VicTusDeuS- My whole reason to go to College/University is to take something that will get me a decent paying career, and is something that I enjoy. I'm thinking econ will satisfy both of the previous criteria.


Another question about econ, how much math is involved? When I took the macro, and micro courses there wasn't much, math and it was pretty basic math... more concepts rather than math.

 

[slickdadd]

slickdad and VicTusDeuS- My whole reason to go to College/University is to take something that will get me a decent paying career, and is something that I enjoy. I'm thinking econ will satisfy both of the previous criteria.


Another question about econ, how much math is involved? When I took the macro, and micro courses there wasn't much, math and it was pretty basic math... more concepts rather than math.

I think it might depend on which direction you take within it. In my econ classes so far there isn't much math involved either, but im probably not much farther along then you are. mostly concepts and such. I'm sure the more into particular areas though the more math could be involved. Thats one reason im getting into it. I like workin some math.

 

[bunnymt]

slickdad and VicTusDeuS- My whole reason to go to College/University is to take something that will get me a decent paying career, and is something that I enjoy. I'm thinking econ will satisfy both of the previous criteria.


Another question about econ, how much math is involved? When I took the macro, and micro courses there wasn't much, math and it was pretty basic math... more concepts rather than math.

I would imagine that to major in a subject at a university, you are going to have to take certain math courses in order to fufill requirements. For economics, you may have to take several semesters of Calculus (calc 1,2,3).
In the beginning econ courses, no real math is involved. In the later classes, more statistical mathematics are involved.

bunny

 

[Mr. Destiny]

I'm not big on math but pretty much anything I am interested in requires it so I have to bite the bullet I guess. As long as it's learnable math I'm ok. I found out I have to upgrade my highschool math then take a calc class here, I also have to take a stats class.

You always here people talk about how boring Acounting is, I don't know if this is necessarily the case though. But anyways is Econ sort of like that too?