Curious: When you were in college, why did you choose to pursue accounting over finance or another major?

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I knew I wanted to do something that I would be able to find a job when I was done with college. I started out as a business administration major knowing I would choose a focus and accounting clicked for me. I researched job opportunity, growth rate, and salaries. Changed my major at the end of my first semester.

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1987 standing in the SUNY Buffalo school of business and had 2 pick a major that week. Called parents in,nyc collect. Dad said. Doctor..6 to 8 more years. Lawyer...2 plus 3 more years. Accountant..2 more years, pass CPA...never take another TEST again and u will always have a job

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I was in a Bachelor’s of Nursing program when I changed to Accounting. What have I done 😂

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Seriously ^^. Nurses work like three days a week.

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Didn't go to a good enough school that a finance program would make sense.

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I think a lot of the finance vs accounting is we just didn’t go to a school where a finance degree was worth anything. No investment banks or PE funds recruited from my school. Accounting was the really only option.

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I wanted nothing to do with finance or banking but liked accounting. More interested in ops now, but at least if you have heavy manufacturing/distribution experience in audit, you can fairly easily transition to industry Accounting and eventually an ops role (or hybrid accounting and ops role)

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Pursued degrees in both but went into public accounting as it was simply easier to get into and I did not want to get my MBA right after finishing college. However finance is MUCH more interesting imo

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The girl I wanted to date was taking business classes, so I took the same.

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It was the hardest class at my b school and I was good at it. Got tricked into thinking I could make a lot of money and there would be hot guys

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I knew early on that it was my life’s calling

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Knew I wanted to do business, but was stuck between accounting and finance (our school didn't allow double business majors). Took both introductory classes and hated finance even though I had the best professor. Accounting was boring, but it came so naturally. After learning about the wide range of career options (most which included doing a few years in a big 4 or PA firm), I felt like it was the right choice.

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@Deloitte 1: Nope. Turns out she was gay. I had no clue. However, I liked the business classes and stuck with it.

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Job security since I already had a kid, and it was the "smart kid"/hardest major in the business college. Plus the 2 required accounting classes, whatever they were, we're really interesting to me, like math puzzles kind of. Now my job has absolutely nothing to do with those...

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I triple majored in college— accounting, finance, and history. I hated my finance classes and they seemed to attract every douchebag in my university. The professors were assholes too. I interned at Blackrock and KPMG. Obviously, the pay would have been better in finance, but I was miserable doing it

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Plus I would never consider moving to NYC or Chicago to make it big in the finance space

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It was easy-ish

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EY 2: did you guys end up dating? #nosy

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Accounting was the hardest major in my business school. Lots of dumbasses got finance degrees, and it had less credits. It was a good business school but a standard state school overall, so finance was more of a throwaway major there.

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EY 2: ok that’s good 😅 I sort of changed my major for a guy I dated back then too. We broke up cuz he was a jerk, and I ended up in PA ugh.

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