>90k-100k starting as long as you got good grades. >Not soy boy/nu male tier like "working in Tech" is. >people will respect you. >much easier/less stressful than a STEM degree, and still get paid the same. >top 3 highest in demand jobs/majors. >learn useful skills when it comes to taxes and tax laws. >can work entirely home, work part time, or easily find side jobs in accounting.
>inb4 hurrr durr robots will take over your jobs.
I doubt they will until atleast 30 years. Even if they do semi take over accounting jobs by then there's still going to be positions that humans will have, and if you have to work more than 20 years without retiring/ semi retiring you're an idiot and deserve to be replaced by robots.
>tfw getting a degree in both accounting/finance and biotech
will I be able to retire after 10 years after graduating? how much do I need?
David Smith
boring af
Liam Martin
in 10 years*
Henry Nelson
hurr durr your job will be automated in less than 5 years
Ayden Flores
Because I don’t give a shit about working or money and want to destroy the banking system via crypto, dur.
Benjamin Cox
This.
Julian Moore
lmao, sounds like alot of student debt if you live in the states. If you don't and also not looking to get married I would say you could retire comfortably in 20 years.
Bentley Johnson
Tech is more interesting and intellectually fulfilling than fucking bean counting and looking at spreadsheets all day. And it pays better to boot.
If you choose your career based on some internet meme about soyboys, you're a moron and deserve your impending midlife crisis.
Charles Hughes
Accounting will be 90% replaced by smart contracts and blockchain technology within 5 years.
Connor Hughes
Boring af and will be automated in a few years. Why learn a literally dying job? Retarded.
Hudson Gonzalez
because i work in cyber security consulting. your accountants still need protection. every industry does or its oops another equifax
Isaiah King
ignore these screeching autists, accounting will be in demand for another 20-30 years, by which time I will be retired. I took a meme degree (English), did a graduate trainee ACA placement and now I earn 70k a year to do 2 hours of babby excel work a day. And I got started late and I'm at the bottom of the ladder still, relatively speaking. Not everyone can be a computer engineer, accounting is boring but a god tier job overall
Tyler Ross
Sorry but the point of this board is to escape soulless wage slaving.
Jeremiah Russell
and with an accounting job you can earn enough to retire pretty fast. compared to similar salaried jobs it's very accessible and easy. theres also a shit ton of jobs in it
Easton Lewis
lel
I wish. It won't even be close. You're lucky if it's automated in 50 years. My company has been trying to automate just weekly, monthly and quarterly statements and we spent 6 months before we realized it's a waste of time. That's just work a shitty AR clerk paid 14$ an hour does.
Landon Hall
>90k-100k starting hahahahahahhahahahahhaahha
Adam Wood
You're underestimating advances in AI.
Asher Clark
And you over estimate the average F500 companies ability to transition to new technology.
We aren't a small company by any means and just transitioning to a new inventory tracking system took us a few months and that's for just Canadian businesses and not american ones. Most companies are still running 10, 20 or even 30 year old programs. AI isn't replacing anyone anytime soon and when it does it'll be replacing the fry cooks of the industry (bookkeepers, clerks, admin staff). Anyone with a CPA is not getting replaced and if AI is ever able to replace a CPA then everyone else will be out of a job too.
Gavin Davis
because economics is danker
Cooper Torres
I'll take double sugar with that latte bro thanks
Joshua Collins
>Boring as fuck >You can only do it in your country >You count someone else money while a nigga fucks your wife
Jonathan Fisher
you realize pwc, the best accounting firm in the world, just switched to google sheets for their spreadsheets? you know nothing about the business world. AI hasn't even replaced AP or GL in accounting. third world monkeys are doing it and interns review it.
Logan Rogers
Not a lot of economists in Officer roles in a company though
CPA's can travel around the world for work m8. Lots of people even apply for jobs in Big 4 in the Caribbean and live and work on a resort island.
Brandon Perry
boring/depressing
i make less then half that, about 35k a year delivering food and im pretty happy. 28 years old, 120k stock portfolio and 30k in cryptos. Got a nice 8/10 loyal cutie with my kid in her, and she makes about 40k a year too, and gives me like 400 a month to put towards my trading accounts.
Cameron Lewis
>Boring as fuck So like 99% of every high paying job? And that's also largely down to personal preference. >You can only do it in your country I like my country >You count someone else money while a nigga fucks your wife >current year. >having a wife or gf.
You're also useally counting a company's money, not a single person's money.
Carson Turner
Every person I knew in uni studying accounting was the epitome of a low test soy boy.
Benjamin Watson
depression: the job
Bentley Roberts
>"Can work at home" Yeah man maybe after you make partner. As an accountant just out of college in a big 4, it sucks.
Cooper Jenkins
>90-100k starting youre delusional
Gavin Perez
>big 4 >complaining about work
You drank the koolaid. Should have done industry. 30-40 hour weeks, extra days off in summer, 3-4 weeks vacation starting, sick days, only busy at period closing dates and you make more than public in almost every scenario.
Jonathan Morris
none troll answer accounting is a good degree for the majority of NEETs on here >stable job + above average income that said, accounting is one of the worst corporate jobs. Marketing at Disney? Better. Engineer at Google? Better. IB at Goldman Sachs? Better. Accounting is boring, requires so much dick sucking and is dominated by soulless Asiabots Like I said, still better for most NEETs.
Matthew Rodriguez
ur getting cucked soon. no offense
William Martinez
I don't know if you realize me but here (Netherlands) all accounting Jobs have been automated and we don't even have accounting classes anymore since universities are required to guarantee a job market for at least 5 years after graduation which they can't guarantee.
Accounting will probably not exist anymore in 2020 like how telephone operators don't connect you to the other person anymore.
Nicholas Wilson
You can easily get an IB job with an accounting degree. Everything finance grads learn accountants need to learn anyways.
>engineer at google Pretty much always rated as an awful soul sucking place to work and all of silicon valley has awful retention rates and churns through college grads like crazy.
James Peterson
yeah, also like a 30% lower salary and zero upward growth potential
Gabriel Wood
>So like 99% of every high paying job?
No, being a CEO is different from counting potatoes all day long
Jaxson Richardson
>shilling wagecucking >the absolute state of biz
Noone wants to buy your heavy ass bags, OP
Chase Miller
Unfulfilling Highly prone to automation
Bentley Foster
Industry wages are higher by a lot. Big 4 in my country is 30k starting where as industry starting is around 40k and once you have your CPA it's around 60-70k.
You sound like you have no 1st hand experience in business (corporate America).
Colton Ross
You sound like you don't.
You literally do not need a finance degree for IB. Even if you get a CFA or MBA you still never cover financial statements in depth. An accountant proficient in business cycles and financial statements is very valuable in IB.
And the tech industry in the US is a fucking joke.
>streaming >taking a shitty screenshot with print-screen >that aspect ratio
Austin Ward
tfw accounting and finance major graduating with job lined up.
if you only do an accounting major youre selling yourself short
Adam Hill
Again To get a job in IB, a person needs experience with financial analysis. An accounting degree doesn't help because they focus on the rules and regulations around bookkeeping. Sure an accounting grad an get hired by IB but it's not because of the degree. Your explanation is misleading
I said engineer at google is better than accounting. I didn't say it was the best job in the world. strong reading skills.
Benjamin Martin
?? Did i hurt your feelings?
Im sorry, let me give you a present
Angel Sanchez
Yeah, accounting is a great idea, you should all pick that major.
Adam Sullivan
No, I would never dream of being an accountant. Just never post on /a/, thanks.
Jason Young
Oh boy there's more where that came from
Brayden Cruz
>Get an accounting degree >Become a financial analyst >Great pay+extremely low chances of getting automated.
An accounting degree lets you do a lot more than just accounting, and if your job gets automated you'll have an excuse to go on bennies and NEET away.
Henry James
There's a difference between "Finance" + "Economics" over "Accounting", it's not even close to the same shit.
Accounting is a soon to be dead major.
Colton Brooks
I am, or will be. Accounting major w/ minor in finance, transferred from badm. Trying to work in prop trading. If you’re a CPA you can do more than just accounting. Accounting is intergrated in every part of the financial world. It’ll get you in the door anywhere >stop liking what I don’t like
Asher Richardson
>still hasnt read the request whitepaper
Joshua Johnson
This. My accountants at KPMG said the Australian government is close to auto filing taxes for the majority of people, using standard deductions based upon occupation averages etc.
Christopher White
literally automating this was we are speaking
If you are not studying anything software development atm your future is pretty much fucked.
Nicholas Sanders
Yep, might as well pick the shittiest IT job, it's still going to pay more than "Accounting" in a few more years.
Easton Nelson
>There's a difference between "Finance" + "Economics" Yet most job listings ask for either of those 3.
