<p>Ok well im a HS senior, looking into Majors. Well the buisness field looks pretty interesting but also daunting. Dealing with money, finances, etc., all that looks pretty intimidating. </p>
<p>Do buisness professions have any job security?</p>
<p>Please provide me with more info into buisness paths one could take.</p>
<p>Google.com</p>
<p>Its one thing to ask people to give you insight about one major. It’s totally different to say “tell me about the different paths I can take”. There are countless paths.</p>
<p>In this world, real job security is only found unique positions of necessity or in an union. Job security in my opinion is an idea that is slowly dieing if not dead already, in a professional corporate business sense.</p>
<p>Only two certain things in life are death and taxes. With that being stated you can either own a funerary home or become a CPA. I’d choose the latter. ;)</p>
<p>You don’t have to be an accountant, but it looks good on resumes and if you ever lose your job you’ll have accounting to fall back on.</p>
<p>No, there is not much job security in the business world. Look at all the workers in the finance industry who lost their jobs during the credit crisis.</p>
<p>In response to Homer28’s comment:</p>
<p>There are tons of new jobs in business because of the recession… There are now jobs specifically for planning for an economic crisis.</p>
<p>Also, Finance and Management jobs are some of the most numerous at the moment.</p>
<p>Will there be openings when you graduate, we don’t know.</p>
<p>Arthua,</p>
<p>If you want to have the same job security as doctors have, you can do it in business too, but you also have to spend 10 or more years on your education. Lets say your major is accounting, and here is what you can do:</p>
<p>Bachelors (4 years)
Masters (1 year)
CPA (1-2 years)
MBA (2 years)
PhD if you want, but not necessary(4 years)</p>
<p>It is already 11-12 years, and with these qualifications you will definitely have a job security, and salary comparable to doctors.</p>
<p>Toshtemirov, </p>
<p>Are you saying if you get a Ph.D. and become a professor there is job secruity? </p>
<p>Or are you saying if you get a Ph.D. and work in the corporate or private sector there is job security? </p>
<p>Because a professor only has job security when they get tenure but anyone in the private sector can easily be fired in corporations and small business. </p>
<p>The majority of US states are at-will employment. At will employment is “any hiring is presumed to be “at will”; that is, the employer is free to discharge individuals “for good cause, or bad cause, or no cause at all,” and the employee is equally free to quit, strike, or otherwise cease work.” At-will employment prevents job security and allows employers to cut ties with employees no matter what the circumstance is as long as it does not interfere with other employment laws. For example if you were an accounting major and was hired by a Big 4 firm. If that said firm realized they over hired or needed to cut back could easily let you or any of the other new hires go. </p>
<p>There are very few states who are the exception.</p>
<p>Tosh sometimes I wonder where you get your facts. </p>
<p>On what planet does someone with a PhD get paid as much as a doctor?</p>
<p>Yes some CPAs will make more than doctors but that will be VERY rare.</p>
<p>lol…guys why are you making an accent on a PhD? As I said it is not necessary to get one, but you can do it for your own good. Show me the line where I said that PhD candidates are getting paid as much as doctors do. I said that a person with all those qualifications(Bachelors, Masters, CPA, MBA) is getting paid as much or even much higher. </p>
<p>The only people in the medical field who really make a lot are surgeons and anesthesiologists. Other doctors are getting paid between 100k-200k and that is their top. However, in the business world, you have unlimited opportunities.</p>
<p>Tosh you’re being very naive. A VAST majority of doctors make 150k-200k. However a small minority of people in business even with those qualifications, will earn that much. Someone making 200k is in the top 2% of income. Majority of these people are doctors, entRepreneurs, CEOs, etc. However, most people in business will never make above 100k. That’s just the way it is.</p>
<p>You have to understand, the top position for a CPA is partner at big 4. There is less than a 2% chance that will happen for you! For every CPA that makes $300k there are 100s that make less than 100k. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what world you live in, but you realize that the average college graduate makes around 75k, right? We are not all going to be CEOs or other executive positions, which you seem to think is the case…you’re in for quite a shock. You usually post about how payscale is so inaccurate and people make much more than what those sites say…you’re wrong and until you come in with a huge stack of data saying payscale is wrong, I’ll stick with the guys who have huge stacks of data (payscale). Welcome to the real world.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not saying that a person cannot be fired, but if a person has all those titles, he/she will easily find a job at any economic condition–that’s what I call a job security. However, the worst case scenario is if a person will be paid less than he/she deserves, but still have a job.</p>
<p>I would say that many doctors do not have a job security, since if they make one brutal mistake, they will not be able to be doctors anymore, and will work as a homeattendants for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>Lol tosh what are you talking about? Are you honestly THAT ignorant? EVERY doctor has malpractice insurance to cover their asses for those mistakes. Doctors screw up, their insurance covers it and they continue working as doctors. You do not get your medical license snatched up at the drop of a hat. </p>
<p>You have yet to graduate college, so tell me…when have you experience being laid off and doing a job search during a bad economy?</p>
<p>It’s scary that you believe some of these things you say.</p>
<p>EDIT: Seriously, comparing a CPAs job security to a doctor was a joke, right?</p>
<p>Even if a person dies??? I do not know that much about U.S. system, but for instance, in Asian countries not everyone has an insurance, and if a person dies, you will lose your license and go to jail.</p>
<p>Why do you compare CPAs to doctors? Pls compare MS,MBA, CFA/CPA (you can obtain them in 10 years) candidate vs MD. And yes it is true that doctors do not have a job security. Didn’t you notice that each medical office has only one or two doctors??? Even nurses have a higher job security and growth than doctors have. If there will be many doctors, only few of them will be hired, but others will be underemployed or unemployed. Also, the employers won’t hire many doctors, for they will need to pay them a lot, and they rather will hire NPs or PAs instead.</p>
<p>Yes, even if a person dies.</p>
<p>It’s funny that you question job security of a doctor by talking about accidental death. Yet you fail to recognize that the people who have to worry about that are surgeons and anthesiologists, the two groups you said make up a small percentage of doctors - and who are the ones that make 400k +. As you said, a majority of doctors are GP and those guys don’t have to worry (as much) about accidents. So let’s discuss the majority Tosh…</p>