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Does your major in college really matters? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by jerebear39@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm in my last year of college and for some reason, I decided to design my own major, and I feel like I made a mistake, I'm looking at jobs RN and feel like no employer is going to understand it at all. And that I don't really have much in demand skills? (FYI - it's a BA in community development, so kinda like urban planning but more expansive, my major Combines Social Work, Business, and Sustainability)

In y'all experience, does a college major matter much in the long run?

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[–] MarigoldPuppyFlavors@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Depends entirely on what you want to do. For some professional careers, the degree is everything (engineer, lawyer, etc.) For other career paths it may not matter at all.

Could you find something doing "community development" with the degree you have? Almost certainly, since that's an extremely broad description, as you noted.

Without more information on what you actually want to be/do, it's tough to give any useful advice.