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post 1633521033 03-11-2021, 01:31 PM
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Why do people pursue business's degrees?

Excluding accounting and supply chain for discussion.

For finance, I'm referring to those who go to a small no name school where if you graduate, your best bet is to get hired as an insurance salesman.
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To get hired as insurance salesmen
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post 1633521133 03-11-2021, 01:33 PM
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most of the business owners i know dont have a business degree. i'm sure some of their staff has a business degree though
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post 1633521243 03-11-2021, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted By rectifryer
To get hired as insurance salesmen
It only makes sense.
Originally Posted By sooby
to be carsalesmanbrah
So many career choices
post 1633521493 03-11-2021, 01:38 PM
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lol at an accountant trying to flex to any other major.

Go back to your Big 4 buddies getting paid the same hourly rate as an Uber driver and talk about how big of rockstars you are for counting beans 60 hours a week while real business bros (finance, consultants, real estate) bang your girlfriends and crushes
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Originally Posted By meanstringbean
lol at an accountant trying to flex to any other major.

Go back to your Big 4 buddies getting paid the same hourly rate as an Uber driver and talk about how big of rockstars you are for counting beans 60 hours a week while real business bros (finance, consultants, real estate) bang your girlfriends and crushes
This. OP is an antiaxxer training to be an overworked officecel
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post 1633521943 03-11-2021, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted By meanstringbean
lol at an accountant trying to flex to any other major.

Go back to your Big 4 buddies getting paid the same hourly rate as an Uber driver and talk about how big of rockstars you are for counting beans 60 hours a week while real business bros (finance, consultants, real estate) bang your girlfriends and crushes
gg

https://business.sdsu.edu/undergrad/general-business

It's all over.
Real business bros attaining that general business degree.
post 1633522013 03-11-2021, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted By PassiveLearner
This. OP is an antiaxxer training to be an overworked officecel
Am vaccinated, still ain't getting covid shot.
post 1633522043 03-11-2021, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted By meanstringbean
lol at an accountant trying to flex to any other major.

Go back to your Big 4 buddies getting paid the same hourly rate as an Uber driver and talk about how big of rockstars you are for counting beans 60 hours a week while real business bros (finance, consultants, real estate) bang your girlfriends and crushes
Cope, and Accounting majors can do any of those jobs as well.

Finance jobs have no problem hiring Accounting majors, Accounting jobs have no interest in Finance major plebs.

Accountants understand the true language of business.
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post 1633522163 03-11-2021, 01:48 PM
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Would use an accounting degree to break into consulting after CPA, but fuk being an actual accountant.

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post 1633522183 03-11-2021, 01:48 PM
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The ONLY way to make it in accounting is if you eventually partner with someone to open a CPA firm. Otherwise lol @ working in accounting.
Your schtick sucks and it screams insecurity.
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Originally Posted By Polaris
Cope, and Accounting majors can do any of those jobs as well.

Finance jobs have no problem hiring Accounting majors, Accounting jobs have no interest in Finance major plebs.

Accountants understand the true language of business.
Oh boy, I was trying to exclude discussion on accounting & small school finance (and supply chain) lol

Accounting Master Race thread incoming...
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If you can get a job with an English major, you can get a job easily with Business major.
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post 1633522623 03-11-2021, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted By CremeFraicheBro
Would use an accounting degree to break into consulting after CPA, but fuk being an actual accountant.

Tax lawyer>Cuckountant
In San Diego, all teachers push their studentd to be auditors (even the tax teachers). If you drank the kool-aid (like most do), you'd be stuck doing auditing and be no where near tax.

Barely any tax internships too, but they are there if you look hard enough.
post 1633522753 03-11-2021, 01:56 PM
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My wife finished a business degree recently Masters with a healthcare focus. She's a nurse manager though on track for director and potentially CNO one day.

So I mean if you're in a position with an opportunity for management promotions the business degree is useful. Starting out with a Bachelors's in business seems weird though.
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post 1633523173 03-11-2021, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted By JoshSP1985
My wife finished a business degree recently Masters with a healthcare focus. She's a nurse manager though on track for director and potentially CNO one day.

So I mean if you're in a position with an opportunity for management promotions the business degree is useful. Starting out with a Bachelors's in business seems weird though.
What Bachelor's would you want people to get instead?
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Lmao at putting in 100s of extra hours studying accounting, then 2 more years studying for a CPA, only to get a $60k per year pre tax salary with a big 4 cuck firm. That's if you are lucky.

Meanwhile chad marketing degree major makes $60k per year as a salesman brah right out of school, coasting through school barley studying with a 2.5 GPA.

If you don't get a big 4 job right out of graduation OP, say hello to your $20 hour bookkeeping job for Mr Schecklstein lmao.
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Originally Posted By Swaggod9k
Lmao at putting in 100s of extra hours studying accounting, then 2 more years studying for a CPA, only to get a $60k per year pre tax salary with a big 4 cuck firm. That's if you are lucky.

Meanwhile chad marketing degree major makes $60k per year as a salesman brah right out of school, coasting through school barley studying with a 2.5 GPA.

If you don't get a big 4 job right out of graduation OP, say hello to your $20 hour bookkeeping job for Mr Schecklstein lmao.
That's some strong delusion about the average marketing major's outcome.

You're kind of right though that the amount of investment (time and effort, education level, etc) for theaverageCPA salary is...a pretty laughable ROI.
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BBA with an emphasis in Finance, chit GPA.....from Georgia Southern University.....was 13k students when I graduated....came out with 37K in student loans.

1st job was $12/hr

brb, 35 making $107K/year working from home.
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Agree with others above. Would rather be unemployed than be an accountant. Man, what a life. Finance crew checking in
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Originally Posted By bsmit107
BBA with an emphasis in Finance, chit GPA.....from Georgia Southern University.....was 13k students when I graduated....came out with 37K in student loans.

1st job was $12/hr

brb, 35 making $107K/year working from home.
Stay in Georgia, economy is a lot better. California's economy is chit unless you want to move to Los Angeles
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Originally Posted By Swaggod9k
Meanwhile chad marketing degree major makes $60k per year as a salesman brah right out of school, coasting through school barley studying with a 2.5 GPA.

If you don't get a big 4 job right out of graduation OP, say hello to your $20 hour bookkeeping job for Mr Schecklstein lmao.
$20 hour is pretty decent (not great) in San Diego. Considering that average accounting salary is $50K (in Dad's chit economy)
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Idk if this refers to me since I'm STEM, but I'm set to start MBA program this coming fall. Many of my superiors at work have it and recommend it and I'd like to eventually transition out of technical roles into management.

Employer pays for most of it and I pay something like ~10% out of pocket so it seems like a no brainer.
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Lol @ criticizing accountants. They are one of the smarter and hardest business degrees.

You have to slave your first 1-3 years in big 4 but after that you can easily make $85-$100k at a boutique working 35-40 hrs a week. The best thing about it is it’s a support role. There’s no real stress of trying to make the company money. Just do your reconciliations and month end tasks and it’s smooth sailing. The work can be boring though but your opportunities are endless and you’ll never be out of a job. BRB every firm needs an accounting department. BRB this thread is cope cause op couldn’t pass intermediate accounting in uni.
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Originally Posted By dbs25
Idk if this refers to me since I'm STEM, but I'm set to start MBA program this coming fall. Many of my superiors at work have it and recommend it and I'd like to eventually transition out of technical roles into management.

Employer pays for most of it and I pay something like ~10% out of pocket so it seems like a no brainer.
No this doesn't apply to you. While an MBA is trash if you are already a business major. Stem + MBA looks good since it covers basic topics of business.

Getting a Bachelor's in business is having a degree in the basic topics of business.
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Originally Posted By Polaris
Cope, and Accounting majors can do any of those jobs as well.

Finance jobs have no problem hiring Accounting majors, Accounting jobs have no interest in Finance major plebs.

Accountants understand the true language of business.
Accountant is more a mentality than a skill set. It’s for a lot of uncreative, can’t make a business decision, play it safe because this degree guarantees a solid but not fantastic paying job individuals.

Have had strategy meetings with senior leadership at companies and literally have heard “don’t bring so and so on for Y project, they think like an accountant” or have an “accountant mentality”. Basically means they are black and white thinking foot soldiers, but not the ones leading the ship


Accountants just generally don’t have the dna of Innovators, leaders, decision makers, creatives, etc. nothing wrong with that, but they just don’t. A high end finance professional has that ability as well as the accountant knowledge
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They want to run a business. There is nothing inherently wrong with the idea of a business degree. It's just that it's an incredibly unrigorous degree. Economics is probably the better option, but even then, it's a pretty unrigorous degree unless you do quantitative econ and take analysis.
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Originally Posted By swolefnatic
Lol @ criticizing accountants. They are one of the smarter and hardest business degrees.

You have to slave your first 1-3 years in big 4 but after that you can easily make $85-$100k at a boutique working 35-40 hrs a week. The best thing about it is it’s a support role. There’s no real stress of trying to make the company money. Just do your reconciliations and month end tasks and it’s smooth sailing. The work can be boring though but your opportunities are endless and you’ll never be out of a job. BRB every firm needs an accounting department. BRB this thread is cope cause op couldn’t pass intermediate accounting in uni.
My opinion on accounting (good read); you will love it, if you love accounting.

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