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Stay away from office jobs. They absolutely suck the life out of you. Skip college and go into a trade. Hands on work is very satisfying, and one day you can start your own business.
SO SO TRUE! ive got my acounting degree was happy at first that i was going to be a "professional". what a disappointment. you will end up working on low level 7th grade work, you will work with people with no accounting background, only their connections got them in. work in a cube but its not bad if you are actually doing some analytical work. nope, not gonna happen. its now what i call an accounting factory. high volume of the same work everyday. you only really need a couple of bookkeeping courses and you are set for a good 90% of accounting jobs. do the trade route, i was going to learn automotive electronics so i could work on troubleshooting all types of cars. no, i decided on accounting. the subject i like but the reality of the job is different. its like a manager at MacDonalds, a lot of training on running a business but really, you do crap work like all the other employees with no clue of anything. oh, and the politics. you actually need to get trained on that subject. the politics is what makes the office run. i like so and so, i hate so and so,. the promotions go to the best politician. good luck
Find out what I want to do for a career or narrow down into the industries and not be so clueless
Major in the right subjects, study, and/or try to aim for a better university with better recruiting
Don't waste money on grad degrees
SO SO TRUE! ive got my acounting degree was happy at first that i was going to be a "professional". what a disappointment. you will end up working on low level 7th grade work, you will work with people with no accounting background, only their connections got them in. work in a cube but its not bad if you are actually doing some analytical work. nope, not gonna happen. its now what i call an accounting factory. high volume of the same work everyday. you only really need a couple of bookkeeping courses and you are set for a good 90% of accounting jobs. do the trade route, i was going to learn automotive electronics so i could work on troubleshooting all types of cars. no, i decided on accounting. the subject i like but the reality of the job is different. its like a manager at MacDonalds, a lot of training on running a business but really, you do crap work like all the other employees with no clue of anything. oh, and the politics. you actually need to get trained on that subject. the politics is what makes the office run. i like so and so, i hate so and so,. the promotions go to the best politician. good luck
Several of my friends are CPA's and all have done well... one became partner at age 30... others used it as a springboard for business ventures and a few just opened their own businesses...
There really is a lot more to accounting than crunching numbers all day...
1. Don't get addicted to video games.
2. Don't stop exercising and eating right.
3. Learn how to drive sooner.
4. Never spend money on people outside of family or give loans.
5. Don't go to a university at 17, just get an associate's degree and call it good.
6. Start working sooner.
7. Start learning Mandarin as a teenager, not Japanese.
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Major in Accounting, that or Respiratory Therapy or some sort of Allied Health field with growth. Also colleges may offer a variety of majors but really there is only a small core that employers actually value/want to hire-everything else is more or less seen as "fluff". Also if you decide to go for fluff you will be competing against the hundreds of other people who also went for Fluff, competing for that teeny, tiny, minuscule number of job openings that go beyond simple, mind numbing data entry, call centre work.
Also- intern early, work earlier.
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AND I would tell my younger self to "always listen to your gut".
