Comment by randusername
7 days ago
It was amazing to me how many people I met in college that pursued majors they didn't even like. It was even more sad when it was clear they or their parents had fallen in love with the idea of a career path and not the realities of it.
Lots of my engineering cohort landed in sales because they didn't like building or fixing things. I guess that's a win for them, but I always felt nauseated that practical kids might be cut from the program instead of the book-smart but uninterested ones.
I asked my CS peers why they were doing that major since they clearly disliked programming and theory.
They all said they would either be a consultant or a manager.
> They all said they would either be a consultant or a manager.
To be a good consultant, one must be exceptional in the area in which one consults.
Similarly: if they actually want to become a manager, why don't they study business administration instead. And because lots of people want to become managers: why don't they hang all day and night about textbooks and texts about economic topics and analyze reportings of companies or business case studies?