Business for someone NOT necessarily wanting to be filthy rich?

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<p>I was recently admitted to USC for the Music Industry program. I'm going to be attending, but I'm considering transferring to another major, possibly into Marshall.</p>

<p>Looking through these threads, though, it seems like business degrees all lead to one thing: intense competition for a job where you can make tons and tons of money. And if you don't succeed in beating the competition, you just lose.</p>

<p>Well, I don't really have any ambitions of being incredibly rich. I just want to make a decent income and make my college education worth the tuition money I'm paying for it.</p>

<p>Are there actually jobs for those with either bachelor's degrees in business or MBAs that aren't cutthroat, but are also more humble in terms of income? I mean, I know next to nothing about the business world, so I don't really know anything about the kind of careers that are out there... So... What's out there?</p>

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<p>Most will never get the jobs paying a million dollars a year, it just something for most to aspire for.</p>

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<p>Yeah there is the elitist and there is the rest. There are tons of jobs you can have which don't require to be cutthroat and make a decent living.</p>

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<p>well</p>

<p>like what</p>

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<p>my sentiments exactly, any decent paying job is going to be extremely hard to get.</p>

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<p>management...</p>

<p>target and old navy made a presentation about their management internships... basically managers run the store, make sure nothing goes wrong. Didn't seem too cut throat and the recruiter actually told me they preferred a more laid back type of person. Average starting salary is around 55k so its not too shabby, definintely not as stressful as ibanking.</p>

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<p>not enough prestige though, but the salary is nice. Will it get you into a good bschool?</p>

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<p>hey Mssales, you were asking about doing Corporate Finance at a Big 4 Accounting firm right? I was browsing UT kids off of of our job board and I noticed a girl who did that. She worked for Ernst & Young doing it for 2 years and then switched to working for Old Navy for another 2 years. Now she's at Wharton for an MBA.</p>

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<p>Business is a universal activity, at least as far as I can tell... everything I look into (whether it be a church, a river run, the local city justice court, a troubled youth center, etc.) is founded upon core business principles (financing, marketing, operating, and controlling). </p>

<p>Money just happens to be a key motivator for business people, because one of the core purposes of doing business is to grow financially.</p>

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<p>really, that sounds cool.</p>

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<p>I heard that Marketing jobs are less cutthroat and the salaries are decent....</p>

<p>And same thing with accounting...but that's just number juggling.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that working for Donny Deutsch Marketing for 3 years is just as prestigious as working for Morgan Stanley for 3 years.</p>

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<p>If you are good at marketing, you will make a lot of money and that's a given.</p>