Analysis Of The Economic Guide To Picking A College Major By Ben Cassaman

People say that money cannot buy happiness, which may be true, but what it can do is buy you things that make you happy. Many people decide what they want to do with their life purely based on how much they make. This is good as long as you enjoy what you are doing. With that said, after reading “The Economic Guide to Picking a College Major” by Ben Casselman, I can see where it could be hard to do something you love when you are hardly making 20,000 dollars a year. According to Ben Casselman, “graduates with a degree in petroleum engineering, the highest paying major, earned a whopping $100,000. That’s five times the $22,000 median salary at the bottom end of the spectrum, library sciences.” What if you just love library science, but do not love the $22,000 a year? Conversely, maybe you don’t have an interest in petroleum engineering but want to get paid a lot right out of college. Which should you got with?
Unfortunately, that is not the case for most people. I would assume the majority of people would sacrifice doing something they love if it meant more money. Personally, I would like to find a happy medium which I believe most people should try and do. Some people may get lucky and would love to be a surgeon or an engineer. For those who aren’t so lucky, you have to make a decision. Not only a decision, but one of the biggest of your life. You have to either sacrifice some happiness for more money, or vice versa. In the end, I believe your decision should purely be based on what you believe will make you the happiest, because as long as you have that it doesn’t matter how much money you