What is Your Major?

[Neptune's Disciple]

I majored in Architecture for 5 highly stressful years. I now have a Bachelor, Honours, and Masters in it and can't get a job because the industry is completely dead. Another large firm just closed down in my city a couple of weeks ago, so yeah. I'm currently working as Communications Manager for a training company which I enjoy, but my partner and I are well on our way to starting our own furniture design company, which is equally exciting and terrifying, all at the same time. Long story short kids, don't study something that doesn't have an almost guaranteed job at the end of it unless you absolutely love it and couldn't see yourself doing anything else.

[Poring]

Long story short kids, don't study something that doesn't have an almost guaranteed job at the end of it unless you absolutely love it and couldn't see yourself doing anything else.

This is honestly one of my biggest fears about studying math. It'd be amazing to be a research mathematician, but I don't know if I have the talent to succeed in academia... And from what I heard, industry jobs are hard to come by for pure math majors with no experience in other fields.