Economics major?

[AstonM]

I haven't read the entire thread but most people I know who got the B. Economics go to work as a bank teller. TD Canada trust pays I think $22/hr

Sorry you're not making millions on Wall St. just yet like the university told you

Anyone who graduates thinking they will make a million bucks a year shouldn't be graduating. Looking at averages by degree is more reasonable, and even then you have to realize there are outliers to boost it (for econ at least). For instance, my school has an average salary for an econ grad at around $62000/year. I figure anything higher than $50K would be fine to start my career. That being said, finding a job at this time is NOT easy. Also, I do not know a single person from my school who is a bank teller.

[adehbone]

Same old questions for every single thread for economics/finance. What was your GPA? What were your ECs? How big is your network? How many internships have you had? What did you do last summer?
I have no idea what "SPSS" never heard of it. Also the excuse my school uses "software X" no one else uses is a very poor one. Likewise not knowing VBA, SQL etc...

As mentioned many times on here, knowing VBA/Excel/SQL etc is not enough it is understanding data systems or building linear models. This is something I would expect any decent finance/economics/math/engineering graduate to learn.

If you cannot show me a cost-benefit analysis or valuation model simply using logic, pen, paper and boxes with words. I have no care in the world for how great your SQL/VBA skills are. If you can do that, then yes pickup a book and simply program/automate that into Excel/VBA/SQL. Learning VBA/SQL is not hard, it's actually very easy. Teaching someone the proper way to build data systems, efficient lookups, statistical regression and ultimately connecting all the pieces to the bigger picture is the hard part. Those skills I hope your professors would have taught you, which in that case you should not care what software your school used/uses.