Undecided is not a major.
You can check that box on your transcript for a short while before you max out the number of general-education classes you can take.
If you feel stressed about the future, go to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Check out your possible job prospects for different majors.
Match your likes with occupations that show growth in their fields. As of Jan. 8, the bureau published new findings to make your life a little easier.
Top 10 fastest-growing occupations
The list includes percentage growth from 2012 to today:
1) Industrial-organizational psychologists – 53 percent
2) Personal-care aides – 49 percent
3) Home-health aides – 48 percent
4) Insulation workers, mechanical – 47 percent
5) Interpreters and translators – 46 percent
6) Diagnostic medical sonographers – 46 percent
7) Helpers – brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons – 43 percent
8) Occupational therapy assistants – 43 percent
9) Genetic counselors – 41 percent
10) Physical therapy aides – 40 percent
Don’t want to be a stonemason? I see…
How about:
Top 10 highest-paying occupations (with their median incomes)
1) Oral and maxillofacial surgeons – $187,200
2) Physicians and surgeons – $187,200
3) Obstetricians and gynecologists – $187,200
4) Internists, general – $187,200
5) Anesthesiologists – $187,200
6) Orthodontists – $187,200
7) Psychiatrists – $173,330
8) Family and general practitioners – $172,020
9) Prosthodontists – $169,130
10) Chief executives – $168,130
Don’t want to spend that much time in medical school? I see …
The point is to check out probable job prospects that you find interesting. Are you willing to sacrifice time and energy for a job that pays around $20,000 a year? Are you willing to sacrifice six more years to go to medical school?
Research now before getting that diploma. In the end, it can’t say, “Bachelor of Undecided.”
