Obviously it is courting disaster to spend several years of young person's one and only life on planet earth doing something they hate 'with a passion'. Of course some young people might think their parents have a sort of point, and consider doing sociology with an emphasis on statistics - stats are fun and interesting, hardly like maths at all, and I reckon, (not that I think much on stereotypes you understand), not many sociologists are good at them, but what is sociology without elegant statistics?.