Is it normal to really despise your bachelor's degree ?

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I was actually a pretty good student. Before I decided to study linguistics that is. I'm from Europe so we don't really have a major/ minor system, but we have specializations. I specialized in English, so had extra English classes.
Thing is, I was good at languages so decided I should study languages and the science of language or whatever. But I hated it and didn't find it interesting in the least.
The only classes I genuinely liked were about cognition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics etc... I really despise grammar, morphology, syntax and all of that. I don't even understand those classes. I mean I probably could understand them if I bothered but they bore the crap out of me.
I actually graduated and feel like I've lost three years of my life, that I've taken a blow to my self-esteem and that my intelligence has been repeatedly insulted during this horrific BA.
I wish that I could've chosen cognitive neuroscience or cognitive psychology right from the start.

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  • Ummitsme
    6 years ago

    Get a graduate degree in the subject you prefer.

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    • RoseIsabella
      6 years ago

      Yes!

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  • lordofopinions
    5 years ago

    A lot if students end up in the position you are in. They think their chosen subject is great and useful until they get right into it and then discover the more they learn the less likely it will be if any use or lose interest in it. The only thing to do is if you have a lot of time and money invested in it is to complete it. The degree is worth it because quiting it will just tell your future employer you're great at dropping out rather than completing assignment's and not giving up.

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  • bob7
    6 years ago

    what does the holders of such degrees work as

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    • missnowhere
      6 years ago

      Teaching their native language as a foreign language, communication, translation if they minor in languages, engineering ( Natural Language Processing ) or research in cognitive science.

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      • McBean
        6 years ago

        JavaScript programming is the catch all for disenchanted college graduates. Read up on "Data Structures", and start cutting and pasting that code.

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