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Stupid take.

And it's got that condescending tone of 'oh, how dare you!!! Jail for you as I'm a internet warrior!!! I know what I'm talking about!!!'. (I am aware I didn't put this in quotation marks. That's because it doesn't deserve quotation marks.)

A major can be so many things. What do you do with a film major? Sometimes you make films. Sometimes you make animated films, be a screen editor, sound producer, go onto to get a history PhD in cinematic, be a video editor, make documentaries, or even go straight back into academics as a film teacher.

Ask people about themselves! College is tough and people will love it if you ask the most basic follow up question of "What are you going to do with that?".

I'm a bio-chem major. I could go be a doctor, lawyer, or (what most people at my college think until we ask this one incredibly simple question!) drug discovery. I am doing none of those. I'm going to go work for NASA and study human genetic engineering.

(Just read the tags. Guys a poli-sci. No wonder they hate it. They have no plans and a useless* major, lol.)

*Technically not useless as it can be cool. Technically. Down there with business majors.

I really wish people understood that unless you are someone's parent, you don't need to be questioning the practicality of their life decisions. When someone tells you their major, you should say "oh, that sounds cool!" Do NOT ask them what they're "planning on doing with that." It may be an innocent question, but it comes across as super patronizing and just makes them anxious. Maybe they don't know yet. Maybe they've already planned it out extensively and don't want to go over it with you, their dentist. Maybe they don't plan their entire life around getting rich!

It's especially bad when the major in question is extremely self-explanatory. My sister majored in film and so many people asked her what she was going to "do with it." Oh, I'm going to be a doctor! OBVIOUSLY MAKE FILMS, BECKY. They didn't ask because they were curious about her plans, they asked because they wanted to know how she would make money. It was like they thought it hadn't occurred to her that it would be difficult. It's condescending as hell. I'm just so sick of random people thinking it's their right to question and judge other peoples' lives. It's not that hard to mind your own business.