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Well I'm 21 and entering my senior year in pursuit of my undergraduate Accounting degree. This has proven to be a huge mistake on my behalf. I was promised by career counselors that Accountants would always be in high demand in the wake of the corporate accounting scandals, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc., but I was unable to locate an internship in my area this summer, hence why I'm still working overtime at a big-box store. Where this "accounting shortage" is is beyond me.
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I was doing sales for Dell Computers until I got tired of customers calling in and yelling at me about how they hate Dell and not wanting to buy a computer. Although I did make pretty good money..... I wish I wouldn't have quit, because I am having a very hard time finding a decent job. I have a Communication degree.
Well I'm 21 and entering my senior year in pursuit of my undergraduate Accounting degree. This has proven to be a huge mistake on my behalf. I was promised by career counselors that Accountants would always be in high demand in the wake of the corporate accounting scandals, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc., but I was unable to locate an internship in my area this summer, hence why I'm still working overtime at a big-box store. Where this "accounting shortage" is is beyond me.
I have in fact returned to college at a "non-traditional" (euphamism for "old geezer") age. I've been majoring in English, concentrating in creative writing. I'm now researching graduate programs in the field.
Back when, I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I ended up falling accidentally into work that provided me with a paycheck, but little satisfaction. Even when I started back to college, I was still exploring the question of what to do with my life. I started out on the wrong track, majoring in math, finding that I could understand it and get decent grades, but the spark wasn't there. In fact, it kind of turned my stomach to think of doing any work where I'd be using math all the time (my feelings about what didn't work for me, not a knock against the field of mathematics or those who find it interesting). For years I'd been wanting to write, and had made false starts on a couple of novels. Back in school, I was too busy with my studies to have much time to give writing a serious try. Then it kinda hit me . . . like, duh . . . here's the perfect opportunity to devote full time to what I've wanted to do all along. I changed my major to English, love it, and haven't looked back.
I guess a lot of it depends on WHY you go to college. If you go to college so you can find any old job that will make you a lot of money, then the answers will be the usual suspects: engineering, nursing, medicine, law, business.
But if you're like me and you went to college to study something you really love, and making a lot of money just isn't important, study what the heck you want. I wouldn't change a thing.
I would say medicine (nursing, billing, etc) or teaching since there will never be low demand for those.
I agree, and would add Pharmacy to the list
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