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I have not even gotten into college yet so you should take what I say with a grain of salt. I would focus on a “fall-back” job. What I intend to do is after I graduate from high school is go to school to become an EMT and after a few years of actually working as one I am going to focus on a type of freelancing job for the military. That way if I am ever laid off I can work while I look for a better job. Also, such time would be useful in thinking about what you really want to do.

Political science is a good foundation for law school. Or you could take some prerequisite courses and get an MBA. Or you could change your major to physics or chemistry or math. How does political science sound now? ;-)

If you made a mistake in failing your major, drop the course now and take it next year again. Or it is too late now? There are many other courses you can take to get your major in political science. What course(s) are you talking about exactly? Do you need this course you failed for a pre-requisit for another course? Don’t give up your years and definitely don’t start another 4 years of something else. What do you think?

Do what makes you happy…your more likely to do better into and go farther…you will be ok…smile….take careee

You sound like me about 5 or 6 years ago. I dropped out from political science, took a year off and just worked, then applied and got into a technology program at a community college.

I think it all depends on you and your career goals. You need to figure out what kind of job you want. What kind of career do you want? Also what skills do you have and what sort of stuff can you see yourself doing?

Are you going to school to get a job, or are you going to school to learn to think?

I would suggest you go talk to a carreer councelor at your college. They would know if there are any other subjects you could change to without losing all the time you have already invested. And maybe, if you made very clear what you do like about the study and what you don’t like, they can point you in a direction that would suit you more. In my own experience, political science gets a lot more interesting once you get to choose your own courses in the last few years. The basic stuff just isn’t very interesting, but that goes for more studies. You should check that isn’t the only reason you lost interest, or you’d run into the same thing in a next study.