Arts/Humanities majors: what's the most annoying question you've gotten about your major?

[love]

For example, I'm an English major with a focus in creative writing, along with a minor in Theater Performance, and a question I get alllllll the timee is "So, uh..what do you plan on doing with that, exactly?"  Or "Oh, so do you plan on teaching?"  Sometimes even, "Yikes, might want to get more than one day job."

 

It seems in my area that if you're not a STEM major, you are seen as an impending leech on government support or something.  Very annoying.

 

What are some questions you guys have been asked?

[SJJD]

when i was an english major i always got “so you’re gonna teach?â€

[warukatta]

"Oh you're a Psychology major so you know what I'm thinking about." "Can you like read my mind or something?" No we're not mind readers.

"But Psychology is really easy..." *major eye roll*

[rananicolee]

the same ole "what are you going to do with a journalism degree"

"are you going to write articles about me"

[Nyai]

"Ahh.. anthropology... the dinosaurs, right?"

 

 

Nop.

[sungjins]

"Why are you studying English when you already know the language?"

"Ah..so you want to be an English teacher?"

"What are you going to do with that?"

[Bluebells and Snowdrops]

I'm a classics major (Latin and Ancient Greek)

"Oh, so you wanna be a priest?"

"What do you wanna do when you're done studying?"

"Oh, so it's a lot about mythology and stuff"

 

The answers to those questions are "No", "I don't know" and "No".

[honeypie]

I always get the teaching question from older folks but for those around my age, it's always "what are you going to do in the future?" lol 

[A h n]

the same ole "what are you going to do with a journalism degree"

"are you going to write articles about me"

[love]

I'm a classics major (Latin and Ancient Greek)

"Oh, so you wanna be a priest?"

"What do you wanna do when you're done studying?"

"Oh, so it's a lot about mythology and stuff"

 

The answers to those questions are "No", "I don't know" and "No".

 

LMAO @ the priest question

 

classics sounds like a really interesting major though, i love studying languages (obviously English but I was obsessed with Greek at one point too)

[minime]

You are just going to get married, right?

What job would you get? What sort of salary even, huh? *derisive sniggering*

[PanicInParadise]

"You're an architecture student? It must be fun drawing all day without having to study"

[Loonathehoe]

I'm majoring in literature and my mom always thinks the major is the study to be a writer :/

And my friends are always like "You're not gonna make money with that" (all in joke but it gets annoying)

[kish]

people here still don't understand that graphic design is different than fashion design..... and sometimes with architecture

[Amorria]

I'm currently studying English philology on university which has few specializations - the only one which got me interested is translation which, unfortunately, had limited spots and required us to pass a special exam. And since I failed, I decided to pick academic specialization without any additional classes. After that, a lot of people asked me why won't I pick teaching/become a teacher after I'm done. No, I don't want to be a teacher, I don't have a good personality for that and memories from middle school made me hate that place. 

[tabingi]

I want to work in visual development and VFX for films and other media, and someone asked me if I really wanted to work in the entertainment business in light of the Weinstein scandals... It wasn't totally annoying but it was the weirdest question I've ever gotten about my major/career endgame. 

[cherrimotion]

"Are you planning on joining isis since you're studying Arabic?"

[tabingi]

"Are you planning on joining isis since you're studying Arabic?"

omfg, you can't be serious? That's really messed up. I hope they were at least making a terrible joke. 

[cherrimotion]

omfg, you can't be serious? That's really messed up. I hope they were at least making a terrible joke. 

 

Yes, I get that a lot for some reasons... Don't really understand why, I mean, it's just a language, people are so ignorant 

[Lilies]

"What's the point of studying English ? Everyone can speak English nowadays"

[daramjii]

Psychology and they always think we can read their mind like do you think we are magician? Meh.