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Do not refer to #76, engineers do not make nearly what an accountants makes 10 years down the road. I don't give a crap how much you engineers argue about which major is difficult, but this is not debatable. Sorry to bring your hopes down Mr Payne, stay at whatever company you want for 10 years doing engineering, and I'll stay at Big Four for 10 years, you won't be making nearly as much as me.
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Ah yes, disagree with the data. Now, if you had even tried to say the data is incorrect I might have agreed with you. But to not even address it...</p>
<p>Keep in mind that not everyone will work at a Big 4 so using it as a reference case is rather elitist. There is no doubt that the AVERAGE engineer will make more than the average buisness major. </p>
<p>It can argued that at the high end, business makes more money than engineering. However, also keep in mind that engineering majors can also go into buisness-related fields. Accounting is rare for engineering majors, but finance and consulting are common and are both high-paying fields. A large number of top schools do not have business programs and graduates from those schools do not seem to have a problem "getting rich," if that's what you emphasize.</p>
<p>my dad told me that, in Asia, Accountants dont make much money. Why?<br>
People are really good at math and dont need accountants...Americans need accountants. I dont know how true this is..but its funny.</p>
<p>runpunk that is RETARDED, accounting isn't math, its how you report things. Nice attempt, trying to say that Americans are dumb at math? You are completely off, try again. Instead of making Americans seem stupid, you make yoursellf and your dad seem stupid. Maybe you should learn what Accounting is first.</p>
<p>Why are some of the CPAs I know making 300K per year? Because they work at a big four for around 4-7 years and go partner at their own firm with others.</p>
<p>34K isn't a CPA; it might be a staff accountant without a college degree doing book work for a small company.</p>
<p>Lol UB, I hate to burst your bubble, but if you were planning on becoming filthy rich by choosing engineering as a career then you've made the wrong choice. Don't get me wrong, you'll be "well off" by being an engineer, but not rich. Listen to the other people and stop while you are behind.</p>
<p>and I don't want to become filthy rich. I want to make an honest living.</p>
<p>when I worked at circuit city, 2 of the guys had CPA's and they were sales managers, making a **** poor paycheck at 102 hrs a week. and they both went to prtty decent schools.</p>
<p>So? They're anomalies. There are doctors, lawyers or engineers even who have crappy jobs for low pay. There are doctors, lawyers or engineers who have NO jobs. Don't even pretend there are NO engineers with crappy jobs or even no jobs at all. Because there are. If you think that, I can't stop you but you'd be delusional. It's 2 guys out of how many accounting majors in all of North America? Exactly.</p>
<p>By the way, my dad got a PhD in engineering and as a professor, my dad made WAY less than my mom, who worked in CONSUMER banking (i.e. Citibank commercial banking division). At that point, my mom had a BA in French with a minor in English. And it wasn't a $2k difference, my mom made somewhere along the lines of $75k while my dad made something like $40k. So if you want to be rich, you're in the wrong field.</p>
<p>Oh and how do you measure difficulty? Well how many people screw up in daytrading vs. engineering to the point of getting forced out of the career?</p>