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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.
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
I was in a Bachelor’s of Nursing program when I changed to Accounting. What have I done 😂
Seriously ^^. Nurses work like three days a week.
Didn't go to a good enough school that a finance program would make sense.
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.
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)
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
The girl I wanted to date was taking business classes, so I took the same.
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
I knew early on that it was my life’s calling
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.
@Deloitte 1: Nope. Turns out she was gay. I had no clue. However, I liked the business classes and stuck with it.
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...
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
Plus I would never consider moving to NYC or Chicago to make it big in the finance space
It was easy-ish
EY 2: did you guys end up dating? #nosy
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.
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.