00:00is an anthropology major or anthropology
00:03worth it that's what we're going to be
00:05talking about today and we are just
00:07right into it before we figure out
00:09whether this degree is going to be worth
00:12in debt for and spending four years of
00:14your time we want to know what exactly
00:18anthropology is the study of the
00:20biological social and cultural
00:23humans it's going to incorporate
00:25elements of history geology religion
00:27economics politics and society now in my
00:30opinion anthropology is extremely
00:33interesting and a lot of people agree
00:34with me and that's why over 8
00:36000 people in the united states graduate
00:38with this degree every year now some of
00:40the career paths you might go down are
00:42becoming an anthropologist
00:43museum curator researcher now there are
00:46four main areas that i like to focus on
00:48in these videos that i think are very
00:50important and since this is a personal
00:52finance channel the first one we're
00:54is earning potential or salary now with
00:58when it comes to salary when you
00:59graduate you would expect to make around
01:02000 a year starting out and 70 000 in
01:05now you can compare that to a really
01:07high paying degree like petroleum
01:08engineering or one that's not so high
01:11and you'll see that it is on the lower
01:12side now if you end up becoming an
01:14anthropologist or an archaeologist
01:16you'll expect to make around 63
01:19000 a year or 30 dollars an hour the
01:21only problem here is most
01:23anthropologists and archaeologists have
01:24to have at least a master's level degree
01:27that means extra schooling and you'll
01:29likely have to take out even more
01:31if you became an archivist curator or
01:34museum worker you would make around
01:36thousand dollars a year or twenty three
01:38dollars an hour and if you became a
01:40survey researcher you'd make 59 000 a
01:43year or 28 dollars an hour and again
01:45this is another one where you have to
01:46get a master's level degree usually
01:48now i am going to have some careers pop
01:50up on the screen that are somewhat
01:52loosely related to this degree and
01:54you'll see that they're not
01:55actually all that closely related and
01:57the reason for that is because there's
01:59a lot of careers that you would commonly
02:01go into this isn't like a nursing degree
02:04where you get a nursing degree and you
02:06become a nurse or an engineering degree
02:08you get an engineering degree and you
02:10can become an engineer or pretty much
02:11anything else actually this is one of
02:13those degrees where it's extremely
02:14specific if you want to become an
02:17there's not going to be all that many
02:18other options out there that have
02:20anything at all to do with anthropology
02:22now when it comes to how much you would
02:24make over a lifetime you can roughly
02:26estimate that social science degrees in
02:29make around 2.5 million this is compared
02:31to the average of 2.4 million but keep
02:33in mind that a lot of people who
02:34graduate with these degrees
02:36end up getting a master's or a doctorate
02:38so they have to spend more time
02:40and education and they have to also take
02:42out a lot more in loans
02:43another thing to keep in mind here is
02:45when you look at this data it doesn't
02:46actually include the
02:47average for the amount of people who are
02:49unemployed so there are some degrees
02:51where there's a much higher unemployment
02:54and that's not necessarily included in
02:56these statistics so overall when it
02:58comes to pay this one is not amazing it
03:00is going to get a score of 5 out of 10.
03:03next we're going to be talking about
03:04satisfaction and i like to break this
03:06one up into two different areas which is
03:08meaning and job satisfaction so meaning
03:11is basically how much you think your job
03:13positively impacts the world and people
03:15who graduate with this degree
03:17show that it's around 46 percent you can
03:19compare that to a really high meaning
03:21score and a really low meaning score and
03:23you'll see that it's on the lower side
03:24now if you are able to become an
03:26anthropologist or an archaeologist which
03:28is pretty tough but if you are able to
03:30then the meaning score does jump up a
03:33which is still pretty average however
03:36your job satisfaction is around 66
03:38which would be above average and from my
03:40research that i did on this it did seem
03:43are able to land jobs in that field are
03:45very passionate about it
03:47and they do enjoy their careers the key
03:49word there is going to be
03:51if a lot of people are not able to land
03:53a job that has anything to do with
03:54anthropology or archaeology
03:56and so they end up working in something
03:58that is completely unrelated now another
04:00thing i like to look at is how much a
04:01major is regretted and when it comes to
04:04social science degrees they are the
04:06most regretted type of degree and the
04:08reason is because they're too general
04:10impractical and it's hard to find a job
04:12without further studies
04:13now i always like to say that when it
04:14comes to satisfaction it's completely
04:16subjective for one person this could be
04:1810 out of 10 they don't care how much
04:20money they make from it they don't care
04:21if they're not able to get a job and for
04:23another person it could be a one out of
04:24ten so this is completely subjective
04:26take what i say with a grain of salt
04:29in this section but overall it does seem
04:31like people who are able to land a job
04:34seem to be relatively satisfied but like
04:36i said before that is a big
04:38if now i want to assume on these videos
04:42subscribers are awesome you guys are
04:43going to do your due diligence follow my
04:45advice on these videos
04:46and make sure that you are not getting
04:48yourself into something
04:50uh where you're going to regret it
04:51you're reaching out to people in these
04:53careers you're contacting them you're
04:55questions and you're making sure that
04:57you know what you're getting yourself
04:58into so with that being said i am gonna
05:00put the satisfaction
05:02at eight out of ten for this one next we
05:04are going to be talking about demand and
05:07how much demand there's going to be on
05:09the job market with hiring managers and
05:12for the skills that you learn when you
05:14get this degree so if you became an
05:16anthropologist for instance there's 8
05:18000 jobs available and it's growing at 5
05:20which is faster than average but keep in
05:22mind you have to get a masters
05:24if you became an archivist curator or
05:26museum worker there's 37
05:28500 jobs available and it's growing at
05:31which is much faster than average and if
05:33you became a survey researcher there's
05:36200 jobs available unfortunately it's
05:38declining at 4 percent meaning over the
05:40next 10 years there will be 400
05:42less jobs now things are really wonky in
05:45the world right now but
05:46generally speaking social science
05:48liberal arts degrees tend to have higher
05:50unemployment rates now if you look up
05:52anthropology degree on a site like
05:54monster.com it's actually the one i
05:56use to set the lower bar on most of
05:58these videos that's because there's not
06:00that much demand for people with an
06:01anthropology degree you can compare that
06:03to a computer science degree and you'll
06:09additionally when big companies are
06:10surveyed about what kind of college
06:12degree majors they're looking for in
06:14business and engineering degrees are
06:16usually at the top and social science
06:18mid-tier at best they're even kind of on
06:20the lower side so for instance about 83
06:23percent of the companies were looking
06:24for business degree grads and only
06:27of them were looking for social science
06:29degree graduates and if you think about
06:30it it kind of makes sense there's just
06:32not that many jobs out there for
06:34archaeologists for instance being an
06:36archaeologist and being able to get paid
06:38full time in order to do it especially
06:40getting a job where you're doing it
06:41is almost like winning the lottery in
06:43many cases you would be better off just
06:45getting creative thinking outside of the
06:47box maybe starting a youtube channel
06:49about archaeology and then going and
06:51visiting different cool sites around the
06:53and then eventually you'd be able to
06:54start your own business so overall when
06:56it comes to demand i have to give this
06:584 out of 10. next we're going to be
07:00talking about x factors which is
07:02anything that i think is important but
07:04didn't make it on the other part of the
07:06now remember when i was talking about
07:08how much you would make over a lifetime
07:09with a social science degree and it was
07:13well it's going to vary greatly
07:14depending on what career path you end up
07:16going down so for instance if you become
07:18a manager you develop some leadership
07:19skills they make around 3.4 million over
07:23and you could argue that a lot of these
07:24social science degrees will teach you
07:26intangible soft skills that you can't
07:29they might not be skills that are going
07:30to lead you to directly making a lot of
07:32money like getting a job
07:34however they'll likely help you make
07:36money in indirect ways in the future so
07:38for instance the ability to read a lot
07:40of information and understand it quickly
07:42formulate an argument and then present
07:44that argument to somebody else
07:45communication skills in general being
07:47able to give a speech
07:48being able to write an essay these are
07:50all things that will likely help you
07:52indirectly in the future not only
07:54financially but also in other areas of
07:57now when it comes to the value of a
07:59skill on the open market
08:00aka how much people are willing to pay
08:03somebody who has these types of skills
08:05unfortunately when it comes to a lot of
08:07these degrees it's not that good so
08:09anthropology wasn't even on the zip
08:10recruiter skill index but sociology is
08:13pretty close and that one scores
08:1435 out of 100 and you can compare that
08:17to a software engineering degree at 88
08:19out of 100 or industrial sewing at eight
08:21and you'll see that it is on the lower
08:23side so that doesn't necessarily mean
08:24that it's a skill that doesn't have any
08:27but when it comes to how much money you
08:29can make in a job how much somebody will
08:31pay you to actually use those skills
08:33it's not that great that doesn't mean
08:35however you couldn't make a lot of money
08:37indirectly by starting your own business
08:39or something along those
08:40lines a lot of people are interested in
08:41anthropology and if you started a really
08:43good youtube channel
08:44podcast blog etc you could definitely
08:47monetize that and be able to make a
08:49living now when it comes to the
08:50likelihood of automation that's where
08:53these types of degrees really shine
08:55chances are none of these will ever be
08:56able to be automated because
08:58it just requires too much human input
09:00there's a level of creativity
09:02there's a lot of communication involved
09:04there's a lot of critical thinking
09:05involved and so for instance with an
09:06anthropologist or an archaeologist
09:10chance that they will be automated now
09:12when it comes to difficulty this one
09:14is not very hard it ranks around 42 out
09:17most common degrees when it comes to
09:19difficulty when you look at dropout
09:21rates and things like that at least
09:23tab.com and that could be a good thing
09:25or a bad thing depending on the way you
09:27look at it now another thing i like to
09:28talk about is flexibility and
09:30unfortunately this is not
09:32a very flexible degree it doesn't really
09:34pair all that well with other degrees at
09:35least when you think about
09:37job opportunities and things like that
09:39you're also pigeonholing yourself into a
09:41few select careers and chances are
09:43you're going to end up working in
09:44something completely unrelated that has
09:46absolutely nothing to do with
09:48anthropology now like i said when i was
09:50doing research on this one people who
09:52actually able to get jobs whether they
09:54become archaeologists or professors etc
09:57seem to be pretty happy with their
09:58careers however for the most part a lot
10:00of people who got a bachelor's in
10:02anthropology did not end up happy with
10:04it of course they love studying
10:05anthropology but that doesn't mean you
10:07have to get a degree in it that's going
10:08to take four years of your life and will
10:10likely cost you around 40 thousand
10:12dollars so i usually don't quote people
10:13in these videos but i ran across one
10:15comment that just summed everything up
10:18and so i'm going to go ahead and read it
10:19really quickly this was on the subreddit
10:21r slash anthropology and
10:23it was from umlot so i love anthropology
10:26but i deeply regret majoring in it
10:28saying you want to be a tenured
10:29professor of anthropology is a bit like
10:31saying you want to become a famous movie
10:33a lot of people want the job and few of
10:35the people that will try will ever
10:36succeed in it the us is producing more
10:38anthro phd's than ever and they all want
10:42someone will succeed and there is a
10:43small chance that it will be you
10:45see article the job market is saturated
10:48when you talk to your professors they
10:49might be more optimistic but they really
10:51aren't the ones that you need to talk to
10:52about it you don't ask a lottery winner
10:54if they regret buying 25 000 in lottery
10:57tickets over their lifetime
10:58you ask the millions of people that lost
11:00it will take a long time anthropology
11:03generally take longer than other phds
11:05due to the nature of the field research
11:07just an example boston university's
11:11six to seven years whereas ut averages
11:13five years so you get a ba in anthro and
11:16decide to stop there go look at jobs
11:18that specifically require an
11:20seriously here are the nationwide
11:22searches and then it shows that there's
11:24almost no results on a lot of the job
11:26sites so yeah suffice it to say when it
11:28comes to x factors this one is going to
11:304 out of 10. so when you take all those
11:33scores add them up and then divide by 4
11:35you're going to get a 5.25 out of 10.
11:38now keep in mind this is extremely
11:39subjective for one person it could be
11:41like a 10 out of 10 for another person
11:42it would be a one out of ten so
11:44everybody's different and you need to
11:45consider factors for your own specific
11:47situation with this degree i would
11:49highly recommend considering
11:51either double majoring minoring taking
11:54extra classes on the side or
11:56studying it on your own and just keeping
11:58it as a hobby however if you've really
12:00looked into it you've done your due
12:01diligence you've contacted people who
12:03are in the jobs that you want to go for
12:05you know eventually those people are
12:06going to retire and there will be some
12:08jobs that open up so if you're one of
12:10that are able to become an archaeologist
12:12you can become indiana jones or you know
12:14you're able to become a professor
12:16then that's great but you really want to
12:18plan things out if you do want to go for
12:20and i highly recommend hedging your bets
12:23and maybe getting another degree that's
12:24a little more practical
12:26double majoring just so that you have
12:27something to fall back on you also need
12:29to realize that if you're trying to
12:31become a professor or an archaeologist
12:33something along those lines
12:34you're going to need to know that you
12:36are in it for the long run getting a
12:39probably isn't enough you'll likely have
12:42and even then your chances of getting a
12:44job in that specific field
12:46are going to be very low i'm just
12:48keeping it real here you know how i am
12:49on this channel i like to be as honest
12:51as possible i don't want to be a dream
12:53crusher or a dream killer but i want you
12:56informed as possible so you can make the
12:58best decisions so with that being said
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