So i’m majoring in creative writing, w/ minors in both journalism and geography.
I thought it seemed like a good combination.
Will these minors benefit me at all, and how? Do employers even care about these?
I don’ t think employers care that much, but having a broader knowledge base can be really helpful later in life. I majored in Electrical Engineering and minored in English Literature. Now, in my job 20 years later, I probably get more use out of the latter than the former.
Way back when, I decided just to double-major and not fool with a minor. It seemed to me it was just a few hours more for that second major. I think it looks cool on the resume.
Exactly what is the reason for a minor in Geography, of all things? For a Creative Writing major? Dump is and take a minor in some other aspect of your major field, like Technical Writing. Or just get a minor in English. That way you can at least teach when the job market for Creative Writing collapses.
Employers don’t even care about majors that much. It is largely just the degree that matters and how you round out your education is up to your best judgement. A minor may be perfectly sensible in that regard.
So she can write about interesting places? 
Ok…point taken.
When I was a minor, I was most certainly not useless! Let’s be more considerate with our verbiage please 
No – they’re the only ones who can take out the bombs!
Yeah, I thought the OP was asking about my kids.
If I had taken the first job offer I’d gotten while in the college town where I earned my BA in Anthropology, I would have been making use of my minor in Museum Studies. Depending on the minor, they can help fine tune a degree or make it more useful to the “real world.” However, my experience as an intern mattered more to that particular job offer than the fact that I minored in Museum Studies or was an Anthropology major.
If I were you, I’d probably change the second minor to something else related to your field, such as Technical Writing or English. Heck, if I were in your shoes, I’d become certified to teach as well; it’s one of the few ways that you can make a living off of your major area of study right away without getting a lucky break in the publishing world.
I was a journalism major with a minor in history. Most people thought they were polar opposites – one deals with the immediate present, the other with the distant past. On the other hand, the history information has helped because I can put things into context, and the critical thinking skills have helped me make connections that might otherwise be missed.
I also had classmates with minors in the hard sciences, math and (IIRC) computer science. They wanted to get into trade journalism, and needed those minors to give them the knowledge to be able to write about them.
So a minor may be about knowledge and experience, but it can also be a specialty that you’re thinking about pursuing.
Robin
Minors are useless in getting a job, IMHO. But they are useful in systematically teaching you about something you care about. If you want that shiny resume, I’d go for a double major–minors, I believe, have personal value and not much to do with professional preparation.
1100 million tons of coal were produced in 2005 in the United States and produced almost 4 trillion kilowatt hours of energy. So no, miners aren’t useless.
Study what you’re interested in. You’ve got plenty of time to be practical after you graduate.
Can a creative writing major minor in English? At the university I attended, creative writing would be one of the English degrees in and of itself. I have an English-Education degree, and therefore couldn’t have minored in English too because it wasn’t allowed.
Did anyone else read the title and think “Well, that’s kind of harsh. They usually grow up to be productive people, after all.” 
I’m doing a major in geology and a minor in GIS/cartography. Working geologists/professors I talked to have said that having experience in GIS is a good thing for a geologist to have. I figure it will make me more marketable.
I can’t speak for your field - but in my field, no I probably wouldn’t look at what a person minored in.
I think the double major is cooler. Also do it in something that is pretty different instead of related.
I was an Economics and Chinese language double major. I could have an Asian Studies minor with 1 or 2 more classes in stuff I already knew about.
I guess I’m the only one who was thinking about minor key signatures in music
Very useful.