#1082: do y'all plan to pursue a career related to what you're studying?

#1082schoolworksociety· 1171d ago

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curious because most of my peers in arts, humanities or social science don't even do anything remotely related to their majors. which I think is an interesting phenomenon, considering the amount of money dropped into university education.

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frightening-shop·
i think we have a lot more bandwidth to explore other fields, compared to eg. those in computer science or engineering where their courses are packed with modules and content
1171d ago · ·
- gullible-deer·
  agree! maybe our relevancy is not so much the content of our major, but the 'intangible' aspect of it. or idk I could be trying to cope
  1171d ago ·
frightening-shop·
i think its also because with fass degrees, we're able to venture into lots of different industries. eg. sociology you can go into research for a tech company and realise - oh i actually have interest in this field
1171d ago · ·
- helloworld· confused-with-life
  it's not that easy to venture into different industries with just a FASS degree alone if we don't pick up more 'marketable' skills on the side like data analytics / UIUX. Even for non-tech roles like UX research, business development or marketing, 'quantitative skills' are increasingly required (ie stats, data analytics with Excel, VBA, SQL). I feel that job markets that directly relates to FASS majors are very limited in SG (due to the focus on business, tech, finance) and on top of that, FASS focuses a lot on theory (which may not always be directly applicable in our day to day work in the industry).
  1171d ago ·
- rooted-vegetable·
  nice name helloworld - are you pursuing a coding related career 🙃
  1169d ago ·
- helloworld· confused-with-life
  yea haha I used to be from FASS but I transferred into SOC :') though I still do miss writing essays from time to time
  1168d ago ·
- rooted-vegetable·
  heh - on my side im from FASS but am working as a SWE! def regret not doing a cs major :') it's quite fun writing essays but after a while i just get jaded by fass content. jy for cs!! its crazy hard but rewarding 😌
  1165d ago ·
- helloworld· confused-with-life
  lol im not in CS... SOC =/= CS haha (although most SOC people here and elsewhere seem to be from CS..)
  1163d ago ·

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