elephant in the room

Well, it's mostly a guess. In general you choose the subject, not the job, so you pick a subject you like and hope your job (if you have one) won't suck

>>8889350
You play with the tiniest version of what your degree encompasses.

Builders = Lego
Bugs = Bio
Maths = Yourself
Magic = Magnets (how do they work?)
Music = Singing
Fighter = Rapid movements

>>8889358
That's retarded

>>8889359
Humanity. Because stupidity works.

>>8889352
No you look at the job that you went to work and then you look at the requirements to get that job. That's how you know what you want to do. You look at what an electrical engineer does and if you think it's really cool and interesting and you want to learn more about it and participate in the field then you know to major in electrical engineering or something closely related to it in University up to a PhD level. That's how you know you don't pick a college major just because you think it's fun. If that was the case then everybody would be majoring in stupid shit like drawing or dance or something

>>8889369
Continued. Major in the thing that gets your mental dick rock hard period not something that's fun. It has to be that thing that you think about all of the time that is productive

>>8889369
Well I'm not saying you should completely disregard the job market, but what you say is not always possible. It is extremely hard if not impossible to fully understand what a profession consists of until you go through it. Plus you're not garanteed to get exactly the job you looked up.

make this thread on /sci/

>>8889350
Studying the research, anyoning your way to internships or some kind of field experience.
That's was easy for me as a freshmen biologist.
You other lameos might have a difficult time

>>8889350

If you aren't sure before you go to school then you aren't going to like it anyway

>>8889350
Research ahead of your grade level, dingus. If you're unwilling to do that, you probably shouldn't be in your field.

>>8889778
>>8889794
These mostly and a dollop of
>>8889369
>>8889373
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>>8889350

So you know all those lab classes you take as a EE, bio, chem, etc major?

Yeah, VERY WEALTHY PEOPLE go to college curriculum designers and tell them: do this so they know what people on indeed/monster/internerships are looking for.

thanks.

>>8889350
Talk to people involved in the area, and read about the work that's happening.

>>8889857
Don't listen to this guy; he's gay.

>>8889369
99% of jobs aren't cool or interesting.

The undergraduate degrees tend to cover a pretty wide breadth of topics within a field. For example a biology degree will give you a taste of microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, zoology, etc. Most of these (except zoology) are fields with a lot of opportunities in graduate school and in postdocs. It's not unreasonable to expect that someone would get a good sense of what biology is like and whether they want to do it from their high school classes.