A generation or two ago, it was not uncommon for many people to get a job and stay with a single company for nearly their entire careers. In their vocational education, they could receive specific job training and expect to perform a particular type of work for a long time. As you probably know, today s work environments are much more flexible and tend to require higher levels of education. With changing technology and rapidly evolving economic sectors, someone training for a specific job may find their education outdated by the time they enter the job market. Instead, workers need to be broadly educated and flexible in the range of skills they develop.
Sociology is a liberal arts discipline.
This means that studying sociology usually does not train you for a specific career. Instead, it helps you to develop basic skills that are valuable in a wide range of job fields. Other liberal arts disciplines teach similar skills. However, sociology is unique in allowing you to develop practical employment-related skills while studying the social issues in which you are truly interested. It is important to figure out what you are interested in.