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Also would suggest young guys to go for a trade/oil sands as opposed to a useless degree in Arts. If you're set on doing a degree to appease the family's expectations, then take petroleum engineering. Do trades for 5-10 years in the oil sands in your 20's and by the time you reach your thirties, you'd have a great career, have a solid, valuable and portable skill,be debt free and a few hundred G's if not a Mill or two in the bank. Then you can do whatever the hell you please with the rest of your life.
This is also a solid and viable option. Trades can't be outsourced and there are tons of work sites around the country in the energy industry that constantly seem to need labor.
Scotian's oil sands thread is testament to this fact.
Whatever trade you learn is a portable skill set too. You can live that tradesman life and have a cush life in a lot of emerging markets, stashing your cash offshore and keeping a low profile.
I feel like agricultural engineers will also face a bright future. Or at least Jim Rogers won't stop talking about how the next millionaires are going to be Iowa farmers. It's hard to ignore that man.
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