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My mum runs her own medical practice. I might inherit the business someday and will hire a family doctor when she retires. Will a business major help me?
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KG536 posted...

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My mum runs her own medical practice. I might inherit the business someday and will hire a family doctor when she retires. Will a business major help me?

Hell no, do engineering or go in the medical field
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If you also build a career in a trade, it will come in handy
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The skills you learn in a business degree are very valuable. Accounting, finance, marketing, economics, and management are great skills to have when you are running your own business as a manager or an owner.

However, the business degree alone won't get you a job as a manager in a company as business majors are plentiful. You need to have relevant experience or a niche skill set to stand out in a job.

In your case, it seems you already have a job waiting for you when you graduate, so I think a business degree will be helpful.
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a lot of schools offer some sort of program where you graduate with a BA in business and an MBA in 5 years. i highly suggest looking into that
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A generic business degree really isn't anything, but there are several degrees that are typically part of a college of business that you can have a lot of success in like accounting, finance, management information systems, etc.
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An MBA is a good degree.
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Business has a larger payout but worse odds of getting said payout.
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Business wouldn't be my first choice. But if there's nothing else you want to do and you can get the degree without a large amount of student loan debt then I don't think it's a bad decision.
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A business degree is fine, but don't go with generic "business". Get an accounting, finance, MIS, marketing - something with an actual focus.
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For the record, I would only go into marketing if you are really passionate about it and are willing to go above and beyond simply getting a degree. It's a ridiculously over-saturated major so there is a lot of competitions for the jobs and the pay is definitely on the low-end. That's not to say that you can't find success there, but simply graduate with a 3.0 GPA isn't going to do you a lot of good. You'll want a high GPA, internship experience, and solid extracurriculars.
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dont do it TC, stay the **** away from the business field. Business degrees are meant to make you a cog in the corporate machine not run a business.
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If anything, minor in business. Major in something economically valuable and competitive.
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