Thank you for posting this , OP ! Yes , the Mac do deserve some love and appreciation for everything they ' ve given us over the years <| sep |> Like Rookie of the Year ? Haha <| sep |> He ' s also one of the best FIFA youtubers , if not the best for tips on how to improve your game . It ' s always worth following him , even if he ' s inconsistent as hell . <| sep |> Every field has some fieldspecific domain knowledge . While this is nice , it ' s rarely very useful because it ' s normally something you can just look up . What ' s actually useful is the tools you acquire that require understanding . With an anthropology major , you need some important skills . You need a decent amount of literacy and critical thinking skills . With an engineering major , you need these as well and then you need the ability to quantitatively analyze complex systems on top of that . And that is why engineers are heavily recruited while anthropologists aren ' t . It has nothing to do with ' engineering jobs ' most people with engineering degrees don ' t even go into engineering . It has to do with the intellectual tools they acquired as part of their degree . My suspicion is that once you reach senior year , you ' ll be in for a rude awakening . You ' ll start to realize that almost everything you ' re considering doing would have been easier for someone with an engineering degree . Engineering degrees make it easier to get into law , business and medical school . Engineering degrees make it easier to get into graduate school and PhD programs , even in nonengineering fields . If you ' re in those graduatePhD programs , your stipends and research grants will normally be higher and easier to acquire . Take a look at one of those pay scale lists sometime . Stop looking at the majors as fields of knowledge leading to jobs and instead ask the important question how rigorous is the mathematical preparation required ? . While there are a few outliers , what you ' ll discover is that mathematically rigorous fields and high pay are linked and this link not only translates into better jobs coming out of school but greater pay , authority and autonomy midcareer . I firmly believe that people should pursue what they want to do . If you want to start a band in your garage and go for a music career , do it . Just go into it with your eyes open , knowing what the likely outcomes are . Don ' t delude yourself into believing that the rest of the world is going to , on average , value your garage band as much as it values a medical degree . As an a s i d e c o l l e g e m a j o r i s a p r e t t y g o o d i n d i c a t i onofhowsmartyouareAnother way to understand this is to look at attrition rates . You rarely see people dropping out of anthropology because its ' too hard '. Your average electricalmechanical program has a Paper Chaselevel attrition rate 2 of 3 people you start your freshman engineering program with will not end up graduating from an engineering program .