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the most annoying stereotypes about your major
i get very sad when people ask about my major. i sometimes want to lie about it, but i never do anyway. well, i tell them i'm an english major, and the most annoying response i ALWAYS get is, "oh, you wanna be a teacher?" WTHeck... it's not like I'm majoring in education or something. i just want to say back "what's wrong with being a teacher?" though i really had no intentions on being a teacher. English is probably also the last subject i would ever want to teach. i feel very degraded when people do that to me, hence i feel like lying.
I'm interested in what the most annoying stereotypes people say about your major are.
I'm interested in what the most annoying stereotypes people say about your major are.
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I'm in Business...Major in Accounting and Finance... I guess I'm a bean counter?
What stereotypes do people have for Business Majors?
as for business majors.. it's common to hear them being coined as becoming the next Warren Buffett or Goldman Sach.. =\ or sometimes simply people without values but just benefits..
As for business majors, yea, I agree with siuying in that they're viewed as amoral. Personally, I see a business major as someone who'll likely find work upon graduation and will probably be working in a cubicle for the next 40 years, putting up with a demanding boss.
majority of the time people ask me if i'm going to be a teacher.
they're usually surprised when i tell them i plan on working for CSIS or work in forensics/criminalistics.
:/
going to try to combine this with my A+ certification as well as networking+ certifications.
the forensics program i want to take deals specifically with computer crime, however, i still need to take a general course i believe in criminal investigations.
intelligence officers for CSIS can apply with an arts degree whether it be history, english, or humanities, etc...
I personally don't see anything wrong with being a teacher.
The view on Business Majors are very unfair. You guys are all equating business and amoral. How does YOUR major prepare you to be less so?
We just happen to be going to a school that is heavy on Business and well respected in this regard. If you talk to professionals in the workplace, SFU is known as a Business school first. This is the reason their tuition is so much higher than...say someone in an Arts program.
Now you're assuming I'm in Business, but no. I'm not. Science guy here. I just find it ridiculous that you're all saying Business students are some kind of evil.
1) are u gonna be a teacher?
2) since im an english major..they assume i know everyword in the dictionary -________-
P.S. CS > Arts
Seriously, though, the greatest "hot-chick to course" ratio is without a doubt psychology.
When I'm asked what my major is, the usual response is "you're taking the easy way out".
I'm a toss-up between Communication and Psychology.
I guess it's true at times, but it's also just where my interests are...I don't think you can ever win!
"What's is that?"
"Whats 'actual' science?"
"OMG you must be really really smart!!!!"
Usually when I tell people I'm studying Communication, they ask if I'm planning to be a news anchor or radio announcer... lol. I actually want to go into advertising or public relations. I don't think there is a stereotype for Communication students... not for people outside of the major to refer to anyway. For people in Communication, I think we many of us would describe ourselves as leftist, pessimistic capitalism bashers. Because so far, that's what all my CMNS classes have been about...
As for Business, there's definitely the stereotype that we're profit-minded, instrumental people.