<p>Dawgie, you are calling me insecure when your comeback is to insult me and then brag about your resume and credentials. Wow. I can tell you really think highly of yourself. I’m not insecure because I don’t feel the need to come on here and brag about my credentials and work experience. I’m not personally trying to attack you either. I simply made an observation that while the CPA exam might be quite difficult, it proves nothing to claim that most engineers/mathematicians wouldn’t pass it. Of course they wouldn’t. They haven’t studied the material. I have nothing against accountants. I think it is a great career. Just be aware that accountants are not the only people that can take something like the CPA exam. Have you ever heard of the PE exam?</p>
<p>Your insecurity is quite evident. Don’t insult me. You don’t even know me. Your response clearly shows your lack of maturity. You can disagree with me and defend an argument without personally attacking me and calling me incompetant. By doing this you lose all credibility. Grow up.</p>
<p>I don’t need to you know you, the reason I brought up my credentials is because there is a good chance, not definite, that I am better than you. Believe me, when you tackle **** and succeed with very limited time over and over again, you DO NOT lack any confidence or feel insecure about yourself. When you reach my level of confidence and continue to attack harder and more difficult challenges, you will underestand. I lose no credibility, my achievements speak for themselves, and if they don’t I will speak on their behalf.</p>
<p>And you think I am the insecure one? You are pathetic. I truly pity you. You think you are better than me when you don’t even know me. You don’t know what level of education I have or what my work experience is and you are arrogant enough to say there is a good chance you are better than me. This is hilarious! You are probably the most insecure person I have ever seen on here. How dare you lecture me about challenges and self confidence. If you really had self confidence you wouldn’t need to go on the internet and tell everyone how accomplished you are. Do you realize that people that have to brag about accomplishments are just overcompensating for the fact that they really aren’t as impressive as they want everyone to think they are? Your lack of maturity is beyond belief and I am not even going to waste my time responding to you anymore. I really feel bad for someone who has to come on a forum and insult other people to make themselves feel better. Your achievements obviously don’t speak for themselves because you have to speak for them. As I said, grow up.</p>
<p>I am done wasting my time with you. You don’t even deserve the time it took me to type this.</p>
<p>ME 76, stop lying you didn’t have anything important to do. Do you lack reading comprehension? Do I need to repeat myself on my intent of bringing up my accomplishments? It was to make a mediocre poor sucker like you feel dumb and nothing more. Continue sucking my friend.</p>
<p>Folks, please stop the attacks. This forum is for constructive questions and help. Attacking others not only is unbecomming but is also in poor taste and not helpful to anyone.</p>
<p>I’ll pull out the important points, although math/sciences/engineering are generally more rigorous, being in these majors do not automatically make you smarter or harder worker than someone that chose to major in another field.</p>
<p>Did anyone else notice how one of ME 76’s arguments against accounting majors was that they would fail calc 1?</p>
<p>Here all business majors are required to take calc 1 and 2 and they can choose between the track that math majors take that goes more in depth or the track that engineers take that covers extra material. These classes have a 65% drop/fail rate and the business majors I know almost all got A’s and B’s in this, while I know many engineering and science majors who failed.</p>
<p>Mr Payne, ME 76 did state: Accounting majors would get owned by calc I and this is one of the most basic courses for engineering and math majors. I didn’t start this whole conflict for no reason. Yes, it’s blantantly obvious, but like I mentioned before in my previous posts, ME 76 is not a bright individual. Simply majoring in mechical engineering doesn’t mean jack.</p>
That’s interesting. At my school business calc is entirely different from engineering calc (this class all engineering/math/physics/chem) have to take.</p>
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Huge selection effects and totally irrelevant.</p>
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Yeah, that’s wrong and dumb. Although average ability might differ there will still be huge overlap in innate intelligence (IQ) between majors.</p>
<p>Whistleblower, I find your posts useless, rude and annoying. I would prefer if you never discuss me.</p>
<p>As for my background, I was a physics major before I switched to accounting after my first semester junior year. Is it so beyond belief that a physics major wouldn’t have enough courses to have a minor in both math and physics in addition to any math courses such as statistics required by accounting?</p>
<p>OT, but what made you realize that accounting, specifically tax, was your true calling? We know you had a pretty strong GPA in physics and that you were on your way to minoring in math and econ as well; what provoked you to give up a promising career in the sciences?</p>
<p>When I first started majoring in Physics, I was enamored by such folks as Feynman ( who is still my hero) and Einstein. I really liked knowing how the world worked scientifically and was very good at math.</p>
<p>As I started taking upper level physcis and math classes as well as two intro accounting classes for “fun,” I realized that I wasn’t that cut out for physics. I really didn’t want to understand the subject as intensively as would be required. Moreover, I really didn’t want to get a PHD,which one lecturer noted was mandatory. Finally, I wanted to make money. I was told that “although physics is a great field, you won’t make a lot of money even with a PHD.” I wanted to make money and found accounting came easier to me than physics. </p>
<p>I also knew that engineering wasn’t for me since I had no 3d visualization skills and couldn’t draw a straight line even with a ruler.</p>
<p>This all occured during the Vietnam era. I was forced to join the national guard in order to avoid being drafted for Vietnam. Thus, I was forced to switch schools anyway.</p>
<p>I picked tax because I was a very practical kid. I wanted to major in something very practical that would always be in demand. I could have been either an accountant or a mortician,but I figured that I didn’t have the charisma for a mortician!</p>