 What's happening guys? It's Shane here. So in my most popular video on this channel the most useless degrees I talk about degrees that will likely lead you to becoming a 40 year old Starbucks barista now Many of the degrees on that list were social science liberal arts and humanities degrees, and there's a reason for that Hello, hello, this is Susan Wachewski and YouTube is big med at you Shane Why what did I do your videos are encouraging young people to make smart personal finance decisions Yeah, what's so bad about that? That's a direct micro aggression towards people that made bad financial Decisions and went tens of thousands of dollars into debt for useless degrees. No, no you misunderstand I actually feel really bad for these people. I'm not trying to clown on them at all A lot of my friends made the same exact mistakes and they agree with my videos shut your mouth I don't want to hear it make a video about the best liberal art degrees or I will Demonitize you faster than you can say Wachewski. Okay, I'll do it. It's gonna be hard, but I'll do it do it All right, here we go Okay, just kidding guys The real reason I never talked about liberal arts degrees is because you didn't smash the like button on my videos enough Now it's no secret that liberal arts degrees and the careers that they lead to tend to be in a little bit of a low demand on the job market because of this many graduates won't be able to find a job in these markets and the ones who Do the lucky ones will oftentimes end up in low paying jobs where they get overworked And if they have any issue with that, there'll be 10 other job applicants that are more than happy to take their place This is supply and demand plain and simple at this point Many of them will quit their job or they'll stop their job search altogether And they'll go back to school in order to get their masters or their doctorate and they're thinking here is okay Maybe I can't find a job with my bachelor degree, but once I get my masters or my doctorate people will be lined up to hire me now Sometimes this can pay off. I'm gonna make other videos about that But oftentimes it doesn't pay off and instead of being forty thousand dollars in debt now You're gonna be over six figures in debt now from a personal finance perspective meaning just talking about personal finance There are a few on this list that might be exceptions in certain situations Now I know a lot of my viewers have parents that want you to become a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer No exceptions if you don't make it toss out the baby with the bath water But on this video I am gonna go over a few options that might actually be worth the $40,000 in student loan debt that you'll likely have to take out in order to get the degrees and if you're passionate about any of these Subjects you can definitely go for them and you can make it work as long as you're smart about it And you plan ahead number five on the list is going to be geography And this is going to be the study of the physical features on the earth as well as the distribution of the human population About 4,800 people graduate with a bachelor degree in geography every single year You can expect to make around $45,000 a year starting out and then $76,000 a year in mid-career pay And this data was taken from pay scale where the starting out means the first five years of your career and mid-career pay means 10 years and on These numbers are not bad overall, especially for a social science degree Now one career path you could go down is you could become a geographer. They make around $81,000 a year There's around 1500 jobs available and it is growing at 3% which is slower than average Another career path you could go down is becoming a cartographer. They make around $65,000 a year There's around 11,800 jobs available and it's growing at 15% which is much much faster than average Another degree that's closely related to geography, but it has more of an emphasis on technology is going to be geographic information systems Graduates with this degree are starting out around $46,000 a year and then mid-career pay is somewhere around $82,000 Now with this degree and honestly all degrees but especially liberal arts social science and humanities degrees It's very important that you plan ahead and know exactly what career that you're going for Do you want to be a surveyor a municipal planner or a remote sensor? You need to figure this out and then make the proper steps and the proper plans in order to get to that goal Once you know what career you want to go for you can ask people who are currently doing that career Reach out to them through facebook or linkedin or through your you know personal network And then you can ask them key questions like what type of classes should you take what types of skills should you learn Should you do an internship or should you just get a job? These are all key questions that you should always ask and they're going to be different depending on what career path or industry That you're going into and this is all because of one thing Knowledge this will also help you to network with the right people people that might actually help you to get that Dream career that you're going for now as with many degrees It's always a good idea to look into either double majoring or minoring and another major that would make a good combination For instance, you might consider double majoring in a business degree So you can more easily communicate to a hiring manager or a business owner How you're going to help their business make money or you can consider double majoring in a technology degree like computer science For instance Now there's a very good chance with this degree that you'll have to move across the country in order to find Employment especially in the beginning so just keep that in mind Number four on the list is going to be urban and regional planning And this is the study of the development and the design of land that people will inhabit So these are basically the people that make sure that you don't end up having traffic like you have in la now You start off making around $47,000 a year mid career pay is somewhere around 88,000 and it has a decent meaning score of around 54 percent And by the way, the meaning score basically means how much do you think your career or your job Helps the rest of the world and 54 percent is above average Now it's not the easiest thing to get a job But if you are able to get one you'll make around $64,000 a year in the first five years and according to BLS if you are able to get a job as an urban and regional planner You can expect to make around 74,000 a year The number of jobs are going to be around 39,100 and the job outlook is going to be somewhere around 11 percent Now you still want to be careful with this degree because like many of the social science degrees If you aren't you'll end up serving coffee at Starbucks and then going home angry and using your urban planning degree skills to make the best city ever On sims with all of these degrees you have to plan ahead Make sure you have a very clear picture a good idea of what career or what goal you're going for Then once you know what goal you're going for you need to break down the steps It's going to take to get there. This will probably involve work experience internships networking Learning marketable skills all that sort of thing that I talked about before It's really important when you're young that you focus on learning complementary skills But it's especially important when it comes to social science degrees when you're in your teens in your 20s You need to grind it out and use those skill exp points to unlock your full potential There's a good chance with this one that you'll still have to relocate as well in order to find a job Number three on the list is going to be criminal Justice and this is the study of the delivery of justice to those who have committed crimes Now you would think that you would become a police officer with this one and that's right You can the only problem with this one is that you don't need this degree in order to become a police officer in the majority of cases Sure, there's very specific circumstances where getting a criminal justice degree might help you get a job that you might not have otherwise But for the most part you don't need it and it's a little bit redundant Still a ton of people graduate with this degree every year over 40,000 You'll start off making around 43,000 a year and mid-career pay is around 71,000 Now there's other jobs besides becoming a police officer that you can get into with a criminal justice degree You could become a security manager, for instance, who makes around 73,000 a year According to bls you could join the police or you could become a detective and you would be making somewhere around $65,000 a year There's 800,000 total jobs available and the job outlook is around five percent Which is about as fast as average now with this degree It is absolutely essential that you research ahead and make sure that getting the degree is going to help you to get the job That you're aiming for most careers in law enforcement absolutely do not require this degree However, if you've done your research, you've reached out to people and you've asked them And you found out that getting this degree will help you get that career that you're going for then go for it Maybe you're already in law enforcement. You want to move up the career ladder and your department is offering you a free college degree Why not go for it now realistically with this degree The best thing you can do is either minor in it or double major in it with something else This degree with a computer science degree or maybe an accounting degree would probably make a really attractive combination Number two on the list is going to be political science And this is the branch of knowledge that deals with the systems of government as well as the analysis of political activity Now with this degree, you're going to start off around 46,000 a year and mid-career pay is going to be somewhere around 89,000. This is definitely one of the better options on the list There's a lot of government related jobs that pay really well and they have good benefits One common career path for political science majors is becoming an intelligence analyst They make around $77,000 a year if you wanted to you could become a political scientist It's pretty rare, but bls shows that they make around 122,000 a year, which is excellent And there's 6200 jobs and it's growing at 5% which is much faster than average Now this is with a master's degree, of course, and there aren't that many jobs available But that is a direction that you could go now according to wealth insight Who did a study on the degrees that basically create the most millionaires political science did come in at number 10 So a lot of the time this degree does lead people in a direction where they could get a high paying job And they could potentially become a millionaire Now who knows if this will still be true in the future, but it is a good sign Now as with all the social science degrees you need to focus on learning marketable skills networking Internships, maybe double majoring and all that sort of thing You know combining this one with maybe economics or statistics would be a really good combination Planning ahead is still going to be key here. It's absolutely mandatory with all of these degrees, especially political science There's a bunch of different levels that you can go here You can look for jobs in the state and local government the federal government You can get jobs with nonprofits So it is a relatively flexible degree many political science majors end up going to law school as well So that's another route that you could look into but be careful there because the market for lawyers is getting a little bit Saturated and I'll probably do a video on that in the future Number one on the list and this one is number one by a mile. It's going to be economics Economics is the study of the production consumption and transfer of wealth within a country or within the entire world Now with this degree you can expect to earn around $56,000 starting out and that nearly doubles to $107,000 in mid-career pay So basically it can be tough to find a job initially, but once you're established with this degree There are a lot of extremely high-paying jobs out there. There's a ton of opportunity These are by far the best statistics out of any of the social science liberal arts and humanities majors out there without a doubt Now there's a ton of options for those who graduate with an economics degree Many of them end up working in the finance industry So you could become potentially a financial securities or investment analyst and they make around $80,000 a year in the first five years According to BLS financial analysts make around $85,000 a year starting out. There's 329,000 jobs available Which is excellent and the job outlook is 6 percent, which is about average You could also become a financial manager, which according to BLS they make around $129,000 a year The number of jobs is 653,000 and it's growing at 16 percent, which is much much faster than average Now if you wanted to further educate yourself go back to school and get your master's degree That could open up the option of a career as an economist. They make around $105,000 a year There's 21,000 jobs available and it is growing at 8 percent, which is faster than average According to wealth insight an economics degree has created the third most millionaires out of any degree out there Now it's not a given as with all social science degrees. You need to make sure to network You know possibly double major Learn marketable skills and all those things that I mentioned before even with an economics degree This is extremely important. You can't just get the degree and expect people to be lining up outside your door ready to give you a job This is also a very flexible degree. You can get a job in the government and get a job with big companies There's a lot of different options for you here But with more options means you also need to do more research So you know exactly what careers you're going to be going for once you know what career you're going to be going for Contact people who are currently in that career and then research the steps You need to take in order to get there yourself fields that you commonly see Economics graduates going into are going to be banking finance investing management data science coding actuarial jobs or consulting It would be a good idea to learn skills in or take extra classes on or even minor or double major in some of the following subjects Finance mathematics statistics business computer science information systems or technology related degrees All of these will help to set you apart to any business owner or hiring manager Anyways, this video is going on too long. Thanks for watching the video so much guys. 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