International Relations degree useless?

[Terminator98]

They are respected but it's not a field that has as many career opportunities. Engineers (among other related fields) are on the other hand universally sought after.

Maybe, but it never will be obsolete. After all, it doesn't matter what you do, point is to be best/among best in your profession. I know mediocre engineers who dont work in their fields and some who work for 500 Euros or so and auto mechanic who earn 3 times more. Only real problem here is that a lot of people finish Law studies without real interest/talent for it. For example, when I enrolled in college, there were 1,200 students in the first year, 1/2 failed to finish 1st year, out of those 600 maybe 300-400 will finish studies and out of them, 50-100 have real affinity for it (including me), rest are either people who made a mistake in choosing a profession or people who are not for any faculty which is not case only with my profession but with every other too, a lot of people want to have faculty diploma but they are not for that.

[Hithaeglir]

With any degree if you have a career plan and you combine it with appropriate employment choices and further education, you should be ok. I don’t really know anyone with a similar degree to give more insight