(July 25, 2015 at 6:07 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Literature/Philosophy, Law/Economics, Neuroscience/Computer Science. Any of these would be fine, I guess. That's in order of personal preference.
In terms of subject, Literature/Philosophy won't get you a job, Philosophy certainly won't. There's a joke that philosophy teaches you to be philosophical enough to cope with your job in McDonalds. Literature will at least demonstrate proficiency with the language and maybe you can become a certified translator. Translation work is licensed in Germany. We had to get out birth and degree certificates translated and have an official translator present when we got married. This is required even when one of you is a native speaker and the other is only slightly less than fluent.
If you choose Law then remember that each country has their own legal system, so you would basically be deciding which country you are going to be living the rest of your life at the age of 19.
Economics will probably give you some useful transferable skills but you'd have to ask someone with an economics degree for their opinion.
Neuroscience although interesting won't actually give you a job, unless you carry on and do some postgraduate work and eventually do a PhD. And then you'll have to be lucky to do something worthwhile with all your qualifications. It's not just down to hard work and talent.
Computer science will definitely get you work though in software engineering because of the skills shortage. I call software engineering a black hole of careers because once you slip past the event horizon you just end up in that career for the rest of your life. It sucks in the natural scientists as well. Software engineering is known to pay very well in Germany if you are a fluent German speaker and a man. If you studied Neuroscience, you'd probably end up working as a software engineer.
