<p>better than engineering?</p>
<p>Just wondering. I work for minimum wage right now and want a better job.</p>
<p>Yes. You will make at least $1 mil by 28.</p>
<p>hahahaha plscat. u and i have had our disagreements but i must say that one was funny!</p>
<p>I’m tired of all these inaccurate made-up bull statements you keep posting plscat. Do not listen to him OP. By 28 you will only make 800,000 with a business degree.</p>
<p>But if you want better advise, do some research (this has been argued many times) and come back with more specific questions.</p>
<p>hahahaha… good addition serious101, this is good guys lol</p>
<p>Thanks for the crappy responses</p>
<p>serious101 actually gave a pretty good response… do a little simple research on you own and come back with more specific questions. You’re asking if business is the best major to make money with. Do you realize how many careers are considered “business”? It ranges from accounting to management to economics to financial analysis to investment banking. each have different salaries. what do you want to do? economics? accounting? MIS? these are things you have to research on your own…</p>
<p>now to give you a very very GENERAL answer to your GENERAL question, taking into consideration ALL careers at ALL experience and education levels, i’d say with some sort of business degree, you can expect to earn anywhere from $40,000-$80,000. Obviously some may make more, like I-Bankers, Accounting partners, CFOs, and CEOs, well into six figures, but again your question is far too general to give any kind of definitive, or at least more specific, answer</p>
<p>Get a business degree and play for the LA Lakers and you’ll make a ton of money.</p>
<p>I gues I should of clarified that. Fair enough.</p>
<p>I am looking into Accounting as a career because its stable and pays well. Are those aceptable reasons to pursue a major?</p>
<p>CPAs make about 60k a year in my area(Colorado) according to the research I have done. From there, you can move to controller and make 90k a year.</p>
<p>How hard is it to break into an Accounting Career?</p>
<p>thats better, thanks…</p>
<p>those are good reasons. in fact, thats the reason i’m pursuing accounting. there’s other things i would like to do, such as sports journalism and medicine, but i dont have the finances to risk 4 years of salary opportunity and college costs to take such a risky career path. For medicine, i honestly wonder if i would be able to get through the science classes. i like the medicine/doctor stuff. i hate the dull chemistry and biology. and again, my familys finances are not there for me to go into $200,000 debt while making no full time income for 7 years post grad.</p>
<p>so yes, your reasons are similar to mine for pursuing accounting, and i think the reasons are acceptable. i dont buy the notion that you have to love your career, you just have to enjoy it enough to do it. i think your figures are probably accurate. you can always advance into managerial type positions, such as senior accountant, through connections and working hard.</p>
<p>how much you make as a controller or CFO relies mainly on how big the company you work for is. you could be the only person doing financial/accounting work for joe’s bakery, in which case you would technically be a CFO, but probably be making less than an average CPA. or you could be the CFO for apple and make money that i dont even wanna think about. just see where your career takes you</p>
<p>if you go to your state school and not an elite school, the engineer will probably make more money.</p>
<p>Engineering and most business degrees are going to be close enough in earnings that you shouldn’t just choose whichever one will make you more money(a debatable subject). If getting a relatively secure, decently paying job is important, choose the one you like most. That seems to be a much more reasonable proposition than either the “Follow your heart, even if it means majoring in Art History and ending up serving burgers” or “Do whatever will make you the most money regardless of whether or not you aren’t interested at all in it”.</p>
<p>Demoz that’s true for what…3 years? Engineers from a state school don’t make more money than business majors from state schools in the long run. In fact I’d say business majors from state schools make much more money in the long run from state schools. Why? It’s easier for a school to become good at teaching the fundamentals of business than engineering.</p>
<p>cooldudemanus, you’ll figure that out after u take some intro to accounting classes. If you don’t like the intro work, you sure as heck won’t like accounting as a career.</p>
<p>@jonahrubin… good way to put it. too many people think its either you have to love your field of study/career no matter what the job prospects are or just chose a career simply based off of how much theyll make. there IS a middle ground as you said. you can sort of like your career and still get compensated decently. like accounting. im kinda interested in it and it pays better than average with the right career moves. would i rather do sports journalism and love my major? absolutely, but id also like to be employed after college. would i make more money as a doctor? most likely, but i hate science classes, and need to have income after college, not 7 years after college… very good point</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Hmmm, continue working degrading work which I don’t like(23 btw) with little respect only to come home to crappy living conditions</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>Do new,respectful work that I also don’t like and come home to a nice TV</p>
<p>What to do…</p>
<p>There are lots of people in jobs they don’t like. Yet, the world continues to move foward</p>
<p>You can make a lot of money in business dependent upon your major. At the end of the day though, If you don’t enjoy the work you’ll be hating yourself.</p>
<p>^^Can you point me in the direction of where anyone has ever proven that just because your job isn’t a dream job that you hate yourself? </p>
<p>Sorry, some people don’t let work control their emotions. They let their family and friends and their own time determine that.</p>
<p>^ exactly, if im not thrilled at work, thats fine. as long as outside of work im enjoying my life im ok</p>
<p>I think the idea is, you should not HATE your long-term career. But you do not have to LOVE it either. Your career just needs to be tolerable. Most people who seek their “dream job” in an all-or-nothing manner come no closer to reaching it than those who went after their dream job using a more safe, balanced approach. But the people who went the “all or nothing” route end up with long-term careers they hate the rest of their lives. The people that went after their dream job with the balanced approach end up with a long-term career they atleast don’t hate - and they came just as close to their dream job as the ones who went crazy after it.</p>