Not necessarily.  When people think of business majors, they typically think of Patrick Bateman Wall St. assholes, but business actually teaches a lot of life skills many college graduates lack.  Before you get into your concentration you have to take the basics in everything.

Accounting- Teaches you how to manage your income/expenditures/savings.  Many young people are very bad at this.

Economics- Micro is all about how to get the most bang for your buck, "Utility."  Macro is all about how the world economy works- Individuals, corporations, small businesses, governments, various regulations all together living the dream.

Marketing- How to sell yourself or your product.

Management- How to plan your life.  Tons of stuff about how to start a business, working with customers and suppliers.  Budgeting to make a profit.  This can work for business or personal settings. 

Obviously if you are super passionate about something, like art or history, then you should major in it, but business from a decent university is a great platform to develop life skills. 

Congrats on the new digs Sleaz. Sounds like it's about perfect for you aside from waiting until Friday to drink at work.

Just now realized that I've actually probably skated with you a few times. I used to go to Albany to skate after my shop went out. That place was/is fucking awesome.

I went undergrad EE, but went to a school with a top 30 business undergrad.  I took some electives in that school and their were a lot of bright people there.  Econ is not really about the math.  It's more about relations and how the world economic system works.  Sounds like your school's business department is pretty crappy.  I ended up getting an MBA from a decent school.  My class was a mix of people who really wanted to learn and people who's company paid for it and expected them to go.  Of course there was overlap between the two. 

Any of you guys ever work as a package handler for like UPS/FedEx? I'm thinking about it, part time/throw-away beer money type of job. 4AM up to 9AM doesn't seem too bad. Does it really suck? I spent last summer grinding it out at a factory so I know a thing or two about menial repetitious work in hot conditions. 

^I just finished working for a student storage company doing moving/courier type work and I agree with your pops, its amazing being on the road by yourself, enjoying the sun, meeting new people and what not.   

I know a guy who worked in management for UPS.  He says being a driver is a pretty good gig.  The funny thing is how the routes are assigned.  They go by seniority.  The young drivers get bad city neighborhoods where they have to double park and deliver hundreds of packages to huge apartment buildings.  The old vets take the rural routes where you deliver 10 packages a day, but drive tens of miles between them. 

Anybody a community studies major on here? I just changed to community studies for community development and planning for the fall semester and am not really sure what to expect.

I've been working an 'in between jobs' job at Stussy's chapter store in Toronto for 2 years now. I finally got myself back into an office as a 'Social Media Coordinator' for some pretty sweet clients. I think I will be managing the brand pages for Bacardi, but I haven't started yet. Gonna keep doing sundays at Stussy, as I have kind of helped out developing a skate program for their Canadian stores, and don't want to throw that all away. I heard through the grape vine that they might take another shot at putting an American team together again, so if that happens, I don't want to be far away. Plus, I have a lot of debt, so the extra 300 a month on top of my new salary will help. I don't know what to expect out of the position, as they are just developing the department. Could be great, could be awful. I am just happy to get a company phone and dental again.

^I'm in social services and loving it. What did you do?
 Getting promoted next week. More money, flexible schedule, less bullshit work, more mindful work and projects.

I counseled kids/supervised group homes for youth in state custody. I did it for 5 years and really enjoyed/appreciated the kids and what we were able to do. After leaving and returning to school though, I'm not interested in going back. I still sometimes dream about the people I cared for... I woke up in a cold sweat this morning dreaming about presenting in front of a panel on Buddhism- I'd rather go that route.

nah, not to many bros here. mostly nerds and hipster types.

after a few weeks project is still sick and they seem to like my contributions. they're wanting to hire me full time and i actually had another team that just hired an architect who used to be my boss a few projects back also show some interest in me for full time. i'd be down but "show me the money" is really where it's at. a friend who works here says the pay is great but one mans great might be another mans not so great. they give 5 weeks vacation which is tight but i don't want to take less money for benifits so hopefully they will see it the same way as i'd like to stop contracting but really cash rules...

Go into it excited and stay excited. It's really cool being outdoors a lot and teaching some super cool shit. I did this for the summer after I graduated high school and 3 summers in college. It's a really rewarding time and its really enjoyable. Watch "Meatballs" before hand and enjoy it. Not skating sucks though.

Just finished my first week at FedEx (handler) - the job is simple and it's only like 3 hours a day. It can be exhausting and back breaking, today, some fucker ordered like 10 bundles of these 6 feet long metal pipes for god knows what. Fuck that guy. The FedEx drivers are all pretty cool dudes and are pretty funny guys.

I also got a voice message from this grocery store near my house about a job - I think I might try working two jobs, it'll probably suck and I'll have no time for anything but it's not like I've got any plans this summer.

Might have to drop the FedEx gig when school starts, don't think I have it in me to get up at 3 - 4:00AM every day to do that shit.

i worked slinging boxes at UPS for 5 years from when i was 18 to 23. it was a pretty good place to work and after awhile the pay increases are awesome. if you stay long enough to get full time, the benefits are good and if you get injured on the job (there's a lot of minor sprains and pulled muscles, things like that) they take care of you and don't rush you back to the floor. the days go by fast because you're constantly busy and you're really just moving shit around all day. it seems like a little much at first because the pacing is really fast, but it doesn't take long to get the hang of.

the 4am to 9am is crazy time, because that's when everything comes off the planes and trucks and has to be sort and loaded onto the delivery trucks so they can leave at 9 for deliveries, but it goes by in a flash and then you're done.

if you're in your early 20s and looking for some scratch, i recommend it.

but for the general "what do you do?" of the thread, i work at a product design consultancy and it rules. i get to make prototypes of all different kinds of things all day. last month i worked on high end appliances (it's more fun than it sounds) and now i'm working on display panels for motorcycle manufacturer. i don't do the engineering part, so i get to just make shit up and leave it to someone else to actually physically function.

where all my grocery store cashies at?