Which type of Business major should I study?

College Majors Business Major
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<p>To answer your questions:

  1. it helps to enjoy working with numbers. Also being a logical thinker is helpful. But even with that I found quite a few accounting jobs to get monotonous. Now I do software QA and enjoy it because I am a perfectionists and my knowledge is best put to use making sure systems work as they should. </p>

<p>2) My least memorable classes were business management classes, so I may not be the best person to ask. You may get some classes that include organization behavior, legal environment of business, leadership, and negotiation. To be honest, I can think of only one person I have ever known who was a management major and his success was as a salesman. He would have been successful with a degree in basketweaving.</p>

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<p>Well what are you interested in. You know don’t go for something that pays too much. Just focus on what you like.</p>

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<p>read the first sentence, laughed, then died a little inside</p>

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<p>Would accounting+hospitality would be a good combination. Or should I stay management+hospitality.</p>

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<p>oavcech, if you want to be in the hotel business, study and work in the hotel business. Enough with the trying to figure the other nonsense.</p>

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<p>Well if I’m asking is because I’m kind of lost… the reason why I asked that, is because I searched and found a lot of comments saying that hospitality career isn’t great and is an “easy” career. But I’m pretty sure studying at Cornell will not be easy</p>

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<p>You are right. Studying at Cornell won’t be easy. And yes, when you are working your way up, there are going to be not so great jobs. You will work night shifts at the front desk. You will have to put up with PIA customers. You will have low-paid housekeeperes who don’t give a rat’s behind. But if your goal in life is to own a hotel, then this is what you have to put up with. I have known a couple hotel/motel owners who have done quite well for themselves in relatively small markets. I guess the real question is why did you say in your first post your goal is to be a hotel owner.</p>

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<p>Why do I want to be a hotel owner?
I have always wanted to work in a hotel, doesn’t matter if I work night shifts at the front desks, but just the fact of interacting with “new” people every day, I just love the whole thing. But I why a hotel owner? Because I know I have the potential to bring a hotel to its maximum and I consider myself a very good leader.</p>

<p>So that is why I want to study Hospitality but I want to be prepare to also manage a business (hotel)</p>

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<p>I like that answer, oavcech. I also understand you are still young and want to make sure you are making good choices moving forward. My sons are 16 and 19 and my job is to help them to realize thier dreams. The older one is in college and had a pretty good idea of the direction he wanted to take. What I did with him was to point out pros and cons of the programs he was interested in. The younger one basically three directions he is considering. Right now I am learning all I can about his interest so I can help him movi ng forward without making his decisions for him. If I were your father, I would be telling you to study hospitality, get a job in a hotel or motel as that will prepare you to manage the business of your own hotel. </p>

<p>What do your parents think?</p>

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<p>My parents support me in whatever I choose, but both have told me that it might be a good to study Business Management (or another business career) and then masters for hospitality.
But they still support me whatever is my choice.</p>

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<p>Glad to hear your parents are supportive. I do agree with them that is a good idea to consider alternate paths. You have time to investigate. A couple ideas. Compare hotel administration programs to business programs. Get a feel what you get from one versus another. Go to hotel website to explore jobs (I would look at jobs for general managers because that is what you would be as a hotel owner) and see what they are looking for. Set up a couple 15 to 30 minutes interviews with local hotel managers. And as soon as you can, get a job at a hotel, any job. </p>

<p>I am not sure that I have much more to add at this point. It is good that you are thinking now, but the main thing is to take care of your current business, i.e. being a high school student, the best you can.</p>

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<p>Well that is one of the things I’m searching:
Main differences between Hotel Administration and Business Management (and Accounting)</p>

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<p>I mean actually put it down on paper and compare the various curricula. it will help you see things like how different are the courses, how long would it take to make up the difference if you choose one direction over another. For instance, with my older son, when comparing his choices, it he would have chosen program A, it would have taken at least 2 years to make up the program B coursework he would have missed. If he were to choose B, he could have made up the A coursework in a semester. Plus program A would have had him take classes in which he had no interest. When writen down on paper it became much easier to compare.</p>

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<p>Pretty good idea… Will do it, talk with my parents and let’s hope I choose the right one.</p>