What major to study to get rich quickly?

But, is there really a get-rich-quick program? And if so, are the instructors who teach these classes… rich?

A status that has caused a “storm” on social networks in recent days, when everyone is anxiously worrying about the high school graduation exam, wondering about the many forks in the road of choice for the future. The status is said to be from a 12th grade male student, he wrote: “Everyone, please tell me, what major should I study to get rich quickly? My parents told me to register for business administration, my sister said to study accounting or banking or something! What do you think?”

The question made readers laugh, partly because of its innocence, even naivety, partly because of its very… legitimate and straightforward concerns. Thousands of comments praised the male student for being brave enough to ask what everyone wanted to know; most others enthusiastically advised him on specific majors based on personal experience; among the countless comments were scattered words of advice for the young man to ask himself what he was good at, what he liked, and then slowly choose.

In fact, there are many people who live their whole lives without knowing what they like or what they want. Many people - like the young man above - make big decisions about their lives based on referring to the lives of others.

Seeing people studying banking is "good", I heard that the monthly salary is stable at 15-20 million VND, not to mention the Tet bonus and quarterly bonus of tens or hundreds of millions of VND, I was so excited that I immediately registered. I heard my neighbor's sister say that the trend of the times is to study communications, because I saw many TikTokers and Youtubers getting rich quickly, so I rushed to study communications. Then my cousin said, today's society has many unpredictable risks, you should study finance and insurance, that field is easy to make a living. My parents nagged, the names of those fields sound so strange, just study traditional fields like pedagogy, medicine, there is always a need for teachers and doctors, if you don't work for the public, then work for the private sector, what's the worry! Oh my god, just hearing and hearing... like that, any field is good, any field won't get rich quickly! But life is never like a dream!

Unless you're lucky, unless you're "lucky enough to try", most people who want to rely on studying a major for 4 years, and then rushing into life with that heavy theoretical knowledge, will have a hard time getting rich, let alone getting rich quickly.

Rich - in a broad sense, not just the numbers in a bank account. The difference between a rich person and a wealthy person is that a rich person always chases money, always puts money at the center to attract the attention of others; while a truly rich person is someone who cares less about money because they are good enough for money to follow them, without needing to spend a lot of money to prove to others how awesome they are. Wealth is not measured by the amount of money but by the sustainability of the value of the assets they own and their ability to make money. So, what field of study in this world can teach you how to get rich quickly, while wealth is both a type of value and a type of ability built by countless bruising experiences of life?

Reading articles about billionaires and the super-rich in the world, it is easy to see that they have one thing in common: independence and initiative. This independence and initiative is expressed in very small things, which many people even criticize as trivial, such as being able to cook for themselves when their mother, wife or maid is away from home; being able to repair electrical appliances, water pipes, and basic troubleshooting when motorbikes, bicycles, or cars break down; knowing how to earn pocket money from a very young age...

Not to mention self-made billionaires, even billionaires born with a silver spoon in their mouths, happily living in a wealthy family, also possess and cultivate such excellent self-reliance qualities. They consider it the most important prerequisite skill of a person.

Independent people will be confident, self-reliant, and self-respecting. People who cannot take care of themselves will find it difficult to understand what their abilities are, what they like, what they want to do, what they are best at... Look around us, there are so many young people aged 15, 18, even older people aged 30, 35 still lying around all day, saying they are bored but their hands and feet don't want to move at all. Talking about exercising, they say it's tiring, talking about light exercise, they say it's lazy, talking about learning this or that to relieve fatigue, they say it's a waste of time. Fearing fatigue, being lazy, and fearing wasting time, they will forever just lie around watching TV and admiring (or sneering at) rich people, no matter what they study!

To add a little more, many young people are also confusing between choosing a major and choosing a career. The concept of a major is broader, within a major there can be many careers. Many people choose to study medicine, but within the medical major there are jobs like doctors, nurses, caregivers, etc.; they study traffic engineering but do not know that within the major there are jobs like construction supervision engineers, design engineers, etc.

Due to confusion or lack of proper and sufficient understanding between major and profession, some people make the wrong decision: choosing to study a major with a cool, general name without understanding what job they will do after graduation, and only after graduating are they disillusioned by the harsh reality.

A little advice for you, you should determine what career you want to do, don't worry about what major you will study; the more specific you are, the less shocked you will be when you finish school and look for a job. In recent years, the Ministry of Education and Training and the International Labor Organization have collaborated to draft and issue a set of career guidance documents for students aged 14-19. The document is very useful, focusing on describing and analyzing the qualities needed for each profession and making predictions about 199 popular and specialized professions in Vietnam, very detailed and practical. Details and practicality are the factors to consider when choosing a career, don't entrust your life to vague answers on the internet, and don't dream of getting rich quick when you don't have a solid foundation: independence and initiative!