Your college major is not important, (No courses in the academic world prepares you to be a broker). But since your coming into the world of Finance, some of the more helpful majors would be Finance, Accounting, Economics or Statistics,
You should be good at math and have a decent idea about the stock market. You should be good at selling, and it would help if you have an outgoing personality. So if you‘re good at sales, or have a good sales background in place of a college degree, you’re part way there.
Both Finance, and Economics would be more benefical to you or to any one than a degree in Philosophy. Philosophy can not and does not make any one a more "rounded" person
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Any college degree is helpful in just about any job you will tackle in the future. However, your job prospects to get hired in the financial world, especially as a stock broker are much higher with a degree in finance, than with a Philosophy/English major. Your friend was just lucky. If you check the statistics, Philosophy/English majors consistently earn less than Finance/Economics majors.
I'm planning to do Philosophy and English at Nottingham university but I was wondering whether a philosophy degree will be useful in becoming a Stock Broker or should I try and change to a course to do with finance or economics? Because I know a friend that done French and Politics at uni and is now a stockbroker and I heard it's more about being a well-rounded person, so is the philosophy and English a good idea?
