I'm not seeing the point in me graduating with a bachelors in Accounting now. All I hear on the Accounting subreddits are how underpaid public accountants are despite having a CPA or CFA. You work for shitty pay for 10 years and at best you make partner making 100k+. Is it worth it? If I take a 100k loan to finish my graduate at a 7-10% interest rate (what the banks will give me with my credit), I'll be living paycheck to paycheck with a 60k salary.
Every single AR/AP entry level job that pays $20-22 an hour requires 3 years of accounting work experience. Am I expected to work at $15 an hour for 3 years while I have debt from my undergraduate degree? The math doesn't work out. Tell me how this works. Anyone please.
I majored in accounting because I wanted to avoid taking Calc 2, 3 and Linear Algebra. I also thought the job would give me stability with a steady paycheck that matches with inflation. Now I might suck it up and take those courses and move onto majoring in Finance or Business Admin with a focus on computer information systems instead.
Maybe entrepreneurship is the way to go now. Instead of going to graduate school, maybe I'll use that loan money to start up a business. I'm so confused. Man... life is tough.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the internet ruff.