I'll start this off by saying this: I am not a science major or an engineer or a business major. I study journalism at school. I study it because it is what I love. However, I have many friends in the science, engineering, or business fields, and way too often I hear about how difficult their school work is an how hard their degree plan is. They are 100 percent right. Those majors are hard.
Whenever you meet someone new, odds are the first thing you talk about is what your major is. When I say journalism, I always see a look of confusion on their face. "That's different. What do you want to do with that?" is the most mutual reaction. In the heap of "Top Ten Most Useless Majors" articles published by Business Insider, Forbes and Huffington Post, among others, my major – mass communications -- always makes it on those lists, whether it's top 20 or top 5, it's on there. Other "worthless" majors according to those articles include psychology, philosophy, religious studies, liberal arts, graphic design and history.
But, with all that being said, if I hear one more time about how I have an easier time compared to an engineering, science or business major and how they have the hardest major, I might actually slap somebody.
Speaking from experience, the lessons I've learned from being inside the classroom and outside actually practicing my skills, will take me just as far as if I had been a part of any of those majors in particular. These majors take a lot of hard work -- all of them do.
The path I am on right now may not be as straight as other students down a different career path, but that doesn't mean it is not the right path for me. Many of the majors I have listed are labeled the worst solely because you do not get a big, high paying paycheck from them as you would compared to engineering or medical field degrees. If your field of study is something you are passionate about, the amount of money you make should not ever matter because "you'll never work a day in your life," and that alone is a reward.
Like I said before, engineering, science, even business is difficult. Personally, I stopped being able to really understand math when teachers started putting letters in it. Here is my thing though; if you are an engineer major, in all honesty, you are pretty good at math. Does that make your major easy? Absolutely not. But, it does make it easier for you than it does for me. I will never be an engineer or science major, or really anything remotely similar.
These lessons of hard work, determination and passion are ones that everyone can take with them, regardless of their field of study. These lessons aren't about journalism at all though -- that is just the story I have learned them through. They are about life and how to succeed after graduation. There isn't a major out there that is worthless.
Every single day that I go into a classroom, I learn something about myself that will help me in the future. Don't let others decide your level of success.
