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Not enjoying my economics degree(2nd year), considering dropping out.

I'm just starting my second year in uni as a bachelor in economics and I really don't like what we're studying. I feel like I have no interest in any of the stuff that we're learning, such as micro, macro, accounting, statistics. As it's literally the first week of this academic year, I'm considering dropping out of uni.
I feel burnt out but also I feel like I haven't been honest with myself. I thought working with numbers, maths, calculations, or learning economic theory interests me, but now I've realized that while some people might like these, this is really not for me.
I'd like to note that I had pretty good grades last year, because I wanted to see if I'm just being lazy and that's why I don't find it interesting, but even after studying these topics I felt no interest at all.
My brother who is a banker told me to join a club at the uni where they organise events in which 'theory meets practice', so I would be able to see whether it's the learning from textbooks part that I don't like or that I really just have no passion for this type of work at all.
I think that in the past the reason I chose this path was because it was 'secure' and would guarantee making more money than a lot of jobs, but now I realised that there is more to life than just having a secure, well paying job, because you actually have to have a passion for it.

What do you think I should do? Have you been through something like this? If so, what helped?
Thanks in advance.
Original post by jason234
I'm just starting my second year in uni as a bachelor in economics and I really don't like what we're studying. I feel like I have no interest in any of the stuff that we're learning, such as micro, macro, accounting, statistics. As it's literally the first week of this academic year, I'm considering dropping out of uni.
I feel burnt out but also I feel like I haven't been honest with myself. I thought working with numbers, maths, calculations, or learning economic theory interests me, but now I've realized that while some people might like these, this is really not for me.
I'd like to note that I had pretty good grades last year, because I wanted to see if I'm just being lazy and that's why I don't find it interesting, but even after studying these topics I felt no interest at all.
My brother who is a banker told me to join a club at the uni where they organise events in which 'theory meets practice', so I would be able to see whether it's the learning from textbooks part that I don't like or that I really just have no passion for this type of work at all.
I think that in the past the reason I chose this path was because it was 'secure' and would guarantee making more money than a lot of jobs, but now I realised that there is more to life than just having a secure, well paying job, because you actually have to have a passion for it.
What do you think I should do? Have you been through something like this? If so, what helped?
Thanks in advance.

Yeah, its on you. You should do what you want, I think you should carry on your study and also focus on other activities

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