<p>Well at the age of 26, I finally found at that I should have never majored in Business (Accounting). The salary really stinks.
I wished I had majored in engineering instead due to my social anxiety.
Can someone give advice on higher paying jobs or switching from business to engineering.
I am afraid if I graduate with a Bachelors in Engineering at around 30-31 that I would be crowded at by the younger graduates.</p>
<p>The salary stinks? where did you get your degree? where are you working now?</p>
<p>Currently I am unemployed going to school.
All the jobs that I’ve been searching for on Craigslist, Career builders, etc salary is around the mid $30’s. I am in the DFW area and went to an AACSB accredited school.
I can get more becoming a waiter.</p>
<p>do you have stats about starting median salary for graduates at your school? did you talk with someone at the career servicees at your school?</p>
<p>no. but i doubt it would be useful asking since its the jobs that matter and not the school.
I am only finding jobs in the mid 30’s.</p>
<p>Are you a CPA?</p>
<p>the stuff that they teach you in Accounting should be for PHD wannabes.
The accounting curriculum needs to be modernized to adapt to the current system as I feel like I’ve gotten nothing from this degree.</p>
<p>no, but I am planning on taking the exam. I hate the 150 hour requirement as I went to work upon graduating for two years as a staff accountant doing nothing relating to accounting working under a person who was not a CPA. Now, I have forgotten everything and even if I pass the CPA I would still need that ‘1 year experience under a CPA’ to become licensed.</p>
<p>um yeah. maybe thats why “the salary really stinks”</p>
<p>I want to do the opposite!</p>
<p>While I wouldn’t necessarily discourage you from changing careers, it seems that you like to do a lot of finger pointing when much of the fault lies with your own decisions.</p>
<p>“While I wouldn’t necessarily discourage you from changing careers, it seems that you like to do a lot of finger pointing when much of the fault lies with your own decisions.”</p>
<p>W t f is the point of post like this. The guy came here for some help/advice, not judgement from you.</p>
<p>OP: All I can say is that you better be 100% sure that engineering is what you want to do because it’s a huge commitment. But you are right about one thing, if you’re miserable doing what you do and the pay stinks you’ve got to address that.</p>
<p>My advice is to stop whining and to stop pointing fingers. I know accounting grads in Dallas that make very nice salaries…ie 2 and 3 times the pay he is stating. </p>
<p>Rather than whine about his social anxiety, perhaps he should confront his problem. It will quite likely hurt him in engineering also.</p>
<p>It should be understood that accounting salary spread in a wide range. While a new grad can make 50k easily in big4, the other may only make 40k working in a local firm or private sector, or even lower if you work in small office. </p>
<p>This will be true even for engineering. You won’t get paid the same when working in a no-name small company vs. Yahoo/Google/Cisco in silicon valley.</p>
<p>It all depends on what you do and whom you work for.</p>
<p>And depends on where you live. You can live better in Texas on $35K than in Silicon Valley on $55K. Silicon Valley has an average home price of $450K, in Texas it’s $150K.</p>
<p>What kind of jobs are you capable of doing? I see plenty of accounting jobs in or near Dallas that do not require too much experience.</p>
<p>I only see bookkeeping type jobs paying $10/hr.</p>
<p>I came across your thread obviously because I’m feeling the exact same way! If I didn’t know any better I’d think I wrote this myself. I see this is from 2009, almost 3 1/2 years ago, I’m just wondering what happened next? I’m in this situation and have no idea what to do with my degree. I too suffer from social anxiety and never really liked accounting. Any advice?</p>