Oh right, so it's same sh*t just a different name.
This is possibly falling on deaf ears, but i'll give it a shot:
You guys want a tip from someone who's been there, done that? Don't study for a particular job. It sounds dumb to you now, but I'm deadly serious. You should study something that will teach you how to think critically so you can come to your own conclusions. Science-type things. So far i've spent 2 years doing a commerce degree majoring in accounting. My first year was pretty much the same as what JM wrote: I did general commerce papers like Econ, Management, Accounting--just the basics. In my second year I started my accounting major. Basically it was a whole lot of bullsh*t. What I learnt was that a lot of the business-type majors are basically just instruction manuals. All accounting taught me was how to be told what to do, where to find guidelines to make decisions and what to do in every single situation. They tried to put some subjectivity into it but the subject matter was too dry for it to really be captivating. Essentially it was training me to be a drone that does what the important people tell me to do. Setting me up for 40+ hours a week or doing everyone's dirty work and not even getting half the benefits of the creative and innovative people who are actually dictating where the entity is heading.
Basically, I chose accounting for all the wrong reasons: The job security and the pay-rates are enticing and it made my parents really happy. But I guarantee a good percentage of the people that do things like accounting hate their job and do it soley for the safety of a "comfortable" lifestyle.
A lot of business majors are like that. Management is a worthless major, you can learn management in the field, learning how people behave, how your company operates etc. etc. Finance and Accounting are pretty much drone sort of sh*t, you play around with a bunch of numbers in order to please the important people, but you have to know how to play around with them. Marketing I've never done, but I've heard that students have a hard time getting marketing jobs with that as their major (as odd as it sounds).
That being said, Econ is a great major. In my opinion it is the only business major that is worth doing. I've only done 2 Econ papers (and it will unfortunately stay that way now that I'm perusing psychology and political science) but both have taught me interesting ways to view the world and analyse problems. Accounting didn't, management didn't, finance didn't.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with doing this if it's what you really want, it's just that from my experience, a lot of people go into these sort of degrees with dreams of big houses and lots of money but ultimately succumb to the toils of the 40 hour working week. You both seem pretty intelligent and it'd be a shame to waste such good minds crunching numbers while the fat-cat lights up his cigar with a $100 note.
I guess the question is: do you want to do the dirty work while someone else reaps the benefits? or do you want to be the creative, innovative one who reaps the benefits themselves?
