Don’t Judge Someone Else’s Major!
If you major in any of the humanities or arts, you must hear phrases like these all the time: “What are you even going to do with that major?,” “Isn’t that just a waste of money?,” “Have fun finding a job with that major,” and so on, and so forth.
I’m a double major focusing on Secondary Education and English. However, I’ve come to realize the order in which I tell people my majors vastly changes their reaction. If I start with English and pause, an awkward sense of silence covers the room. The silence of an awkward smile and a “Good for you!” fills the air, until a sigh of relief follows when I say that I plan on going into education.
However, majors that tend to be judged the most, such as communications, film, philosophy, and art, genuinely allow for a student to have so many vast choices in their future career. Other majors that tend to avoid this slander like computer science, business, and various STEM programs, share equal vulnerabilities in the career world that the humanities do but are given much less wiggle-room in their choices.
So, why would you judge somebody’s major? To feel better about the choice that you made, despite the fact that everyone struggles when first entering the career world? Not only does it stand as an excuse to feel superior to other people, but it’s simply an attack on the importance of humanities as a whole. It can be soul-crushing to tell people how excited and passionate you are in a particular field of study, only to be immediately shut down and judged simply based on the assumptions made by other people regarding a career field that they probably know nothing about.
Remember: Without art, the earth is just “eh!” Respect your humanity majors!
