<p>Ok....my freshman year is almost over. With 2 accounting internships under my belt and a college accounting course from senior year of High-school, I realized that I ..... HATE ACCOUNTING.It is soooo boring and just....not me.</p>
<p>I still like business though in general and lately Ive been looking towards marketing.I am thinking about switching into marketing management program in my school.My school offers tons of marketing internships but im just wondering.....</p>
<p>1)Does marketing mean being a salesman type of person?
2)How is the job market out there for marketing majors?Is it possible to find a job with a marketing degree?
3)If I major in marketing that means I can only work for corporation(meaning accounting and economics for example can also get you a job in any field including government)?
4)Who knows something about marketing please provide some info,,,,,</p>
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<li><p>No you don’t have to be a sales person to be in marketing.</p></li>
<li><p>The job market isn’t good. Marketing and management degrees are not well respected business degrees. Accounting and finance are the route if you want any sort of job security/vast opportunities. </p></li>
<li><p>More than likely, yes, you will need to work for a company that “markets” something. </p></li>
<li><p>What did you do during your accounting internships? You very well may have only seen one perspective of the industry.</p></li>
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<p>I’d stick with it a little longer. My D, a junior accounting major, had basically the same reaction after her freshman year-- booring as well. You may also decide that you like Auditing versus Tax, more customer contact/interaction, and look back some day and be glad you gave it a little more time.</p>
<p>inmotion12, I feel like we say the same things is 80% of our posts. If it is not SCM, MIS, Finance, or Accounting…then you really shouldn’t be doing it as your core degree. If someone wants to do finance and then marketing as a complementary degree, then by all means, but there are own a handful of core competencies that a really ‘valued’ coming out of undergrad business programs.</p>
<p>If you don’t like accounting, then you don’t really have a true desire for business. After all, accounting is the language of business. I would advise taking a finance intro course soon. If that turns out the same way, then you can emphatically say that business is not for you. 90% of marketing jobs (sales) can be done without a college degree, and management is too broad.</p>
<p>Maybe it would be helpful if you stated your general academic interests. Also, I would be interested to hear what exactly your accounting internships were. I question how legitimate and comprehensive two internships within roughly 10 months could have been. Additionally, taking a HS accounting course hardly gives anybody an ability to do an accounting internship. I am completing my first accounting course, and I wouldn’t dare touch an accounting internship this summer. Note that I am at Boston College and am currently taking this class with a professor with accolades from Stanford business, MIT Sloan, and the American Accounting Association. Lastly, such courses tend to be terribly taught in HS. Once you take a legitimate accounting course I think you will be in a much better position to begin making decisions.</p>
<p>I read an article about e-advertising marketing going up.Basically people who can manage websites and do marketing on them are needed. My schools offers just a degree like that where half of the courses are marketing and half are ITT based. Any thoughts on that?</p>
<p>That may be so, but e-advertising marketing is likely a niche jobs. In such a case, the jobs will be minimal. This job availability issue exists in the entire marketing field. I am not saying that marketing jobs do not exist but rather that the number of jobs is minimal relative to the number of marketing majors. Also, what does ITT stand for?</p>
<p>Your internships are to accounting what a bank teller job is to finance. </p>
<p>That said, you should probably do a lot of research before committing your life to something. Asking open ended questions to strangers on the internet will not help.</p>
<p>I suspect you haven’t had a real taste of accounting yet. I’m going to guess that your accounting internships and your college level high school course were more bookkeeping than accounting. I was an accounting and finance major and I found the intro accounting courses to be fairly boring (and easy). Upper level courses were much more interesting. It may well be that accounting isn’t for you, but I wouldn’t rule it out based on what you’ve done so far. I would not advise my kids to major in marketing (or management); I agree with those who’ve said accounting, finance or MIS are better choices.</p>
<p>Please do yourself a favor and do not major in marketing or management fields. The job market is terrible unless you went to an exceptionally good school or have built up a solid career in the field. I wish someone would have told me this years ago. My core undergraduate majors were marketing and management and 5 years later, I am looking to go back to school for either accounting or IT. </p>
<p>The reality is while I enjoy learning, I went to university to afford a better life for myself by being able to land at least a decent paying job upon graduation. Graduate school and 5 years later, no job, loaded with student loans and things are looking so bleak. My perspective on higher ed has definitely changed. I say major in a field where you can get a decent job with a decent paycheck, you can always start a side business in the field of your passion. At least you’ll have the income to fund the side business.</p>
<p>Accounting is a concrete skill that not everyone possesses hence the supply/demand curve favors hiring and job retention.</p>
<p>Marketing and management are more loosely defined skill sets. There are great managers without degrees - Ford, Jobs, Gates, Carnegie, etc. And the marketing budget tends to get cut during recessions and down turns. Of course, it’s the bean counters advising managers which areas to cut so you do the math.</p>
<p>As far as complaining about work being boring…it’s work! We forget to design our lives. If you choose a low paying job for the pleasure, fine. If you choose a high paying job in order to pay for the fun in your life, fine. Ultimately, you have to choose. </p>
<p>Remember, ski vacations, video games, cool smartphones, music concerts, world travel, etc., all cost a lot of money. It may just be a boring job that enables you to acquire such things. Don’t give up too quickly without evaluating the future prospects of success and prosperity.</p>