You may need first to revert back to thinking about what are your goals in life. Spend a couple of days on this. What really gets you excited, what do you really want that’s important?
Then work forward to subjects.
Depending on your priorities:
For making money consider: Accounting 101 (it really helps to be able to read a company’s books), Economics (though you may be able to get away with reading Adam Smith and a standard modern text instead), MBA type stuff (as seen in the portable MBA), Sales and Marketing, Project Management.
Practical no matter what you do: a decent course on risk management (that does nt ignore black swans and unknown unknowns) and one on statistics focused on how you use and abuse stats. Psychology with an emphasis on human non-rationality.
Hard subjects: It can be useful to have tough subjects on your CV eg Math, Physics, Philosophy excluding post-modernism/feminism. Good also for your brain.
Hot areas in the next 20 years: Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology.
Computer Programming 101. The risk here is picking a softball course that teaches you nothing, or finding you have no aptitude and cannot do it. read the essay “The Camel Has Two Humps” for more details—see http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf .
If you don’t know history that can be very useful especially ancient history.
You may need first to revert back to thinking about what are your goals in life. Spend a couple of days on this. What really gets you excited, what do you really want that’s important?
Then work forward to subjects.
Depending on your priorities:
For making money consider: Accounting 101 (it really helps to be able to read a company’s books), Economics (though you may be able to get away with reading Adam Smith and a standard modern text instead), MBA type stuff (as seen in the portable MBA), Sales and Marketing, Project Management.
Practical no matter what you do: a decent course on risk management (that does nt ignore black swans and unknown unknowns) and one on statistics focused on how you use and abuse stats. Psychology with an emphasis on human non-rationality.
Hard subjects: It can be useful to have tough subjects on your CV eg Math, Physics, Philosophy excluding post-modernism/feminism. Good also for your brain.
Hot areas in the next 20 years: Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Robotics, Nanotechnology.
Computer Programming 101. The risk here is picking a softball course that teaches you nothing, or finding you have no aptitude and cannot do it. read the essay “The Camel Has Two Humps” for more details—see http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf .
If you don’t know history that can be very useful especially ancient history.