College degrees for personal development career

[ejamesw]

I'm deciding on doing the personal development thing for my career. any suggestions on college degrees which are best if I'm choosing personal development as my career? Thanks.

[yossarian]

Well if you mean that you want to help people personally develop, then it depends on your scope.

Help individuals? Psychology (or sociology/anthropology)
Help societies? Sociology or anthropology (or psychology)

I mean essentially every subject is useful, the more you narrow your focus the easier it is to "choose".

Ultimately the best school is life experience, just like Steve has done. He did Computer Science and Math, started his own business, and during that learned the power of all this stuff and so is now able to directly help people who are in similar situations that he was in. And even people in totally dissimilar situations.

But to answer your question you need a narrower focus, since college subjects themselves are narrowly focused.

[RT Wolf]

Social Psychology is fun, too.

Whatever you pick, I would suggest attending a variety of classes that seem interesting to you. The stuff you learn may not seem very relevant to you, but you can only put the dots together in retrospect.

The other thing is, what are your interests? And what are your skills? I mean, are you good at math? interested in computers?

I reckon you can turn most anything into a PD career, so just follow your gut. That, and its perfectly ok to switch majors, even multiple times.