00:00the best double majors for liberal arts
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00:29wants me to go over the double majors
00:31and instead of answering each individual
00:33one i decided i'm just going to go ahead
00:35and make a series about it but let's
00:36jump right into it the first one on the
00:38list is going to be a liberal arts
00:39degree and a math degree so i think one
00:41combination that might be good here
00:44and statistics for the philosophy degree
00:46you would expect to make forty eight
00:47thousand dollars a year starting out in
00:49eighty nine thousand in mid-career pay
00:51and with statistics you'd make sixty
00:53three thousand starting out and a
00:54hundred and fourteen thousand mid career
00:56now there's a ton of different career
00:57paths that you could go down with this
01:00one career path you see mass degree
01:01graduates go down quite a bit because
01:03there's just so much opportunity there
01:05is software development there you would
01:06be making a hundred and seven thousand
01:09there's 1.4 million jobs available and
01:11it's growing at a ridiculous
01:1322 percent your background in
01:15mathematics would help you quite a bit
01:16when it comes to the computer science
01:18side of things and then the fact that
01:19you studied philosophy and you
01:20understand logic really well would also
01:22help you now liberal arts degrees do
01:24have quite a few downsides but one of
01:25the things that's really good about it
01:27is it's not likely to be automated
01:29same goes for math related degrees as
01:31well so something like software
01:32engineering for instance only has about
01:34a four percent chance of being automated
01:36according to will robots takemyjob.com
01:38another one you might consider looking
01:40into would be a liberal arts degree plus
01:42a business degree something like
01:43economics mixed with general business
01:45with an economics degree you would
01:48000 a year starting out and 109 000 in
01:52and with a general business degree you'd
01:53make forty seven thousand dollars a year
01:55starting out in eighty three thousand
01:58one career path you might go down is
01:59becoming a financial manager they would
02:03a year there's 697 000 jobs available
02:06and it's growing at 15
02:08which is really good now there's a lot
02:10of really good things about business
02:12first of all they're extremely flexible
02:14and so they go really well when it comes
02:16to double majoring with other types of
02:18think about it pretty much every company
02:20in every industry and a ton of different
02:21career types out there are going to be
02:24that have business degrees so pretty
02:26much doesn't matter what type of degree
02:27you pair it with you're probably going
02:29to make yourself look a little better
02:30when it comes to double majoring now
02:32another thing that's really great about
02:33business degrees is when i did the video
02:35on the degrees that create the most
02:36millionaires business degrees were all
02:38over the list i believe they made
02:40six out of the top 10. now don't get me
02:42wrong business degrees do tend to lead
02:43to careers where you do have a pretty
02:46but i don't think that's the main reason
02:48i think the two main reasons here are
02:50one when you do business related degrees
02:52you're probably going to learn some of
02:53the basics of personal finance at a very
02:56things like budgeting saving and
02:58investing are going to be things you're
02:59going to learn pretty young
03:00and i've talked about this before but if
03:02you start investing about 15
03:04a day when you're 18 years old you will
03:06easily retire as a multi-millionaire
03:08then on top of that i can't prove this i
03:10think that people who get business
03:11degrees tend to go on to start
03:13businesses more often than others
03:15and if you start a successful business
03:16you're likely going to make quite a bit
03:18more money than someone who has a normal
03:20next on the list is going to be liberal
03:22arts degrees plus engineering degrees
03:25so an example of this one might be urban
03:27planning plus civil engineering with
03:28urban planning you'd start off making
03:30around forty eight thousand dollars a
03:32and eighty eight thousand in mid-career
03:34pay with civil engineering you'd start
03:35off making sixty one thousand a year and
03:37a hundred and three thousand mid career
03:39if you became an urban and regional
03:41planner you'd make seventy four thousand
03:42dollars a year there's thirty nine
03:44thousand jobs available
03:45and it's growing at 11 which is faster
03:47than average now i'm going to be honest
03:50generally speaking this isn't going to
03:51be true for everyone i know everyone's a
03:53little bit different
03:54but generally speaking engineering
03:56degrees are some of the hardest
03:58out there and liberal arts degrees are
03:59probably not going to be nearly as hard
04:01so usually when it comes to engineering
04:03degrees it's going to be very hard for
04:05you to double major in anything else in
04:06fact a lot of people are going to have
04:08trouble doing an engineering degree in
04:10so when it comes to double majoring
04:12liberal arts would be one of the few
04:14types of degrees where it would be
04:15realistic for normal people with that
04:17being said it's still going to be
04:19i don't think that i would have been
04:21ready to do an engineering degree at 18.
04:23i pretty much wanted to just have fun in
04:25college especially earlier on so you
04:27pretty much just have to be honest with
04:28yourself and realize what your limits
04:30are now that being said engineering
04:31degrees in general tend to earn more
04:33throughout an entire lifetime than any
04:35other type of degree
04:36the average degree earns around 2.4
04:38million dollars in a lifetime whereas an
04:40engineering degree will earn
04:413.5 million and this is pretty much
04:44across the board and it doesn't really
04:45matter what career path you go down for
04:47instance if you go into arts and media
04:49you're still going to be earning on
04:50average about 3 million
04:52over a lifetime and if you go into
04:54community service and legally you're
04:55going to be earning 3.2 million so
04:57engineering degrees tend to do extremely
04:59well pretty much no matter what career
05:01path you decide to go down
05:02and mixing the extremely practical hard
05:05skills that you learn with an
05:07with some of the softer skills that you
05:09might learn with a liberal arts degree
05:11might be an incredible combination with
05:13that being said you really do have to do
05:14your research you don't want to waste
05:15your time taking a bunch of extra
05:17classes if you don't actually need to
05:19next on the list we're going to be
05:20talking about liberal arts degrees and
05:22technology degrees now technology
05:24degrees and just technology skills in
05:26general are extremely hot right now i
05:28talk about this quite a bit on the
05:30so for instance you might mix a criminal
05:32justice degree with an information
05:33systems degree with criminal justice
05:36000 a year starting out and 66 000 in
05:39and with information systems you'd make
05:4159 000 starting out and 101 000 mid
05:44career i think technology is affecting
05:46every single industry out there whether
05:48it's totally disrupting the industry or
05:50whether it's just streamlining things so
05:52learning technology related skills can
05:53help you pretty much no matter what
05:55direction you decide to go
05:56so let's say you decided to be a csi
05:58detective type person and you wanted to
06:00become a computer systems analyst they
06:02make around 90 thousand dollars a year
06:05000 jobs available and it's growing at 7
06:08which is faster than
06:09average then you could end up being one
06:10of those awesome nerds on csi or
06:12criminal minds that starts looking stuff
06:14up when they're trying to find the bad
06:15guy another thing that's great about
06:17technology related careers is that it's
06:19not very likely that they're going to be
06:20automated so for instance computer
06:22system analyst has only a
06:240.7 chance of being automated next on
06:26the list we're going to be talking about
06:28a liberal arts degree plus another
06:30liberal arts degree so one example here
06:32of course would be political science
06:34economics with a poli sci degree you
06:36would expect to make 47
06:37000 a year starting out and 89 000 in
06:41and with an economics degree you'd make
06:4258 000 starting out and 109 000 mid
06:45career now one career path you might go
06:47down is becoming a political scientist
06:49and they make around a hundred and
06:50twenty two thousand a year there's seven
06:52thousand jobs available and it's growing
06:54at six percent which is faster than
06:55average however you're probably going to
06:57have to get a master's degree and this
06:59is a common problem that you see over
07:00and over again when it comes to a lot of
07:02the liberal arts degrees
07:03it's very difficult to get a job
07:05especially if you're actually trying to
07:07get a job in the subject that you
07:08studied in college with just a
07:10bachelor's degree a lot of the time
07:11you're gonna have to go back and get a
07:12master's degree and sometimes
07:14that's not even good enough you're going
07:15to have to go back again and get a
07:17doctorate i was looking at philosophy
07:19degrees and i believe
07:2057 of philosophy graduates end up going
07:23back to school in order to get a
07:25master's or a doctorate now a lot of
07:26these types of degrees aren't going to
07:28be as hard as something like
07:29engineering or mathematics so it's kind
07:31of what you make of it if you want to
07:33kind of just coast by
07:34and just do the bare minimum you can
07:36probably do that and still graduate but
07:38it's probably not the best idea to do
07:39that you want to make sure that you're
07:40engaged and you're actually learning
07:42valuable skills and like i said there's
07:44a lot of downsides to getting a liberal
07:46arts degree i talk about that quite a
07:48and again i'm not biased here or
07:50anything like that i'm just trying to
07:51give you guys the honest facts and you
07:53can you know do what you want with that
07:54information however there are some
07:56upsides to getting one of these types of
07:58degrees and i think one of the biggest
07:59ones is that it's going to teach you
08:01quite a bit of soft skills
08:02soft skills is going to involve things
08:04like critical thinking formulating an
08:07writing essays communication giving
08:09speeches thinking on your feet things
08:11like that now soft skills might not
08:13directly lead to you making money you
08:15know companies probably aren't going to
08:17pay you if you have a lot of these types
08:19however they might indirectly lead you
08:21to making more money because of the fact
08:22that you're going to have great
08:23communication skills
08:25and on top of that they're probably just
08:26going to enrich your life in general and
08:28the next one on the list
08:29we're going to talk about is a liberal
08:31arts degree plus any other type of
08:33degree that's a little more
08:34practical so for instance you might get
08:36a history degree history is one of my
08:38favorite subjects and you might combine
08:39that with a computer science degree
08:41with history you'd expect to make forty
08:43five thousand dollars a year starting
08:44out and eighty thousand dollars in
08:47and with a cs degree you'd make seventy
08:49thousand starting out and a hundred and
08:51sixteen thousand in mid-career pay now
08:53when it comes to the most and least
08:54regretted degrees according to zip
08:56computer science is the least regretted
08:59of the people who got this degree
09:00regretted it and the main reason for
09:02regret was that it's pretty stressful
09:04on the other hand social sciences were
09:06the fourth most regretted type of degree
09:09of people regretting it and the main
09:11reasons are that they're a little bit
09:13impractical and it's hard to find a job
09:15without further studies so when it comes
09:17to these types of degrees these liberal
09:18arts degrees i agree with a lot of
09:20people that i think they're very
09:21interesting and i also think that they
09:23have a lot of value i'm not saying that
09:25they don't have value but in this modern
09:27age where the average person is going
09:29000 in debt in order to get a college
09:31degree you want to make sure that you're
09:33able to secure a job
09:34after graduating and unfortunately
09:36there's a huge supply and demand issue
09:38when it comes to liberal arts degrees
09:40there's quite a few people who are
09:41graduating with them and there's not
09:43that much demand on the market
09:45and that brings me to my next point
09:46which is maybe you should consider
09:48not majoring in liberal arts instead you
09:50could either minor in it take extra
09:52classes in it or just study it on the
09:55and the truth is if you're just in it
09:56for the knowledge there are free classes
09:58online for instance harvard and a bunch
10:00of the other ivy league schools
10:02offer completely free classes online and
10:04you can even buy the same textbooks that
10:06they used so for instance film is
10:08something that i really enjoy and
10:09because of that i took a couple extra
10:11history is another subject i really
10:13enjoy and because of that i listen to
10:15podcasts i read books and i also read
10:18i remember that when i took a history
10:19class they were making me go over
10:21subjects that i wasn't really all that
10:22interested in and they were also making
10:24memorize dates and do all kinds of stuff
10:26and write essays about stuff that i
10:28didn't really want to do
10:29and that kind of ruined the subject for
10:31me a little bit and so i kind of decided
10:33that i wanted to keep it as a hobby
10:35now if you do decide that you know hey i
10:37want to do history as my career
10:39more power to you i think that's awesome
10:41but i do think that you should be a
10:42little more practical about it you'll
10:44likely have to either start a youtube
10:46channel maybe a blog or a podcast
10:48something along those lines if you want
10:49to do it professionally and get paid for
10:51it because the truth is there's not
10:53going to be that many jobs out there for
10:54someone who just has a bachelor's in
10:56history now i've been working on this
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