By Kara Croteau, Campus Representative, University of South Carolina
Four years at a college or university, countless dollars, and the ever so competitive job search, only to find that you are in an unsatisfying career path. In a recent (2010) article in the Wall Street Journal, researchers polled recent college graduates to see just how ‘satisfied’ or rather ‘dissatisfied’ they were with their current career path.
The survey consisted of 10,800 workers who received their bachelor degrees between 1999 and 2010 who majored in subjects such as chemical engineering, business (accounting, international business, finance, marketing, and economics), English, psychology, history, etc. The over satisfaction is distributed like so:
As a business major, in marketing and management, I was surprised to find marketing towards the bottom of the list, thus indicating that less than half of marketing majors are actually satisfied with their current position. This raises an important question for us upcoming graduates—how do we know we chose the right major? With internships, co-ops, and new ideas for exams that test subject knowledge, students are given real world experience and knowledge to get a better understanding for the things they might be doing in their future career path. If you find that your potential career path is towards the bottom of this list like mine, it might be a good idea to get some real world experience before signing that acceptance letter from a future employer.
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