College can be a waste of time. Heres an example.
- Thread starter VerbalIntercourse
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Unemployment during the early 2000s recession peaked at about 6.3%. Unemployment in the latest recession peaked at about 10% and is still much higher than it was during that recession. The latest recession was also significantly longer and the recovery is MUCH slower.
People graduating nowadays wish they could've graduated in that type of economy.
TheBigBopper
Banned
Should have gone to an Ivy or Top 20 school if you wanted to get into business. No room for state schoolers in a two-tiered world these days. You lost 
TheBigBopper
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This is true. The post-dotcom/911 recession was minor compared to the fallout of the 2008-09 financial crisis. The two don't compare at all.
where do you live man? You need to come to Texas. Every person I know in Accounting has so much work, they hate it and are always trying to go back to grad school to get a masters in something else. But they always end up back in accounting because companies are fighting over them here in Dallas. And trust, I know plenty of them with much worse grades. You guys know that your life will be ok if you aren't a middle manager at a fortune 500 in New York right? Lots of good jobs with good companies and hell, all these municipalities looking for CPAs. Come eat!
SmoothOperator88
Your friendly neighborhood coli poster
OP did you take the CPA exam? If you passed that you should
regardless.
Mikael Blowpiff
#LosIngobernabrehs
The back of your head screwed you over.
VerbalIntercourse
Banned
If it isn't from UCLA or UCB, your BS in Econ is BS
i didnt, and I agree with your statement. My degree is not worth much at all. i wish i would have gone into the trades. it would have beem cheaper and more fullfilling I think. i worked hard in college. Im not that smart , so i have to really study to get As, which i did, but i feel like that effort wasn't worth it.
I can fix and repair anything.that should have been my path in life. But i bought into this college nonsense and it doesnt even really pay off. oh we thats life. There are always accounting jobs though. I'll do that for my wife and kids. at least they can say their father is CPA.
VerbalIntercourse
Banned
dog, people are getting hired out of my class left and right. Accounting is a good field, and its good everywhere.
just look at craigslist posting out here. Accounting is like pages and pages full everyday. tech and stem... Not so much, and this ia the silicon valley.
And at least you don't have to go to a top tier to get a job in accounting like STEM. Google, applied mat, oracle and apple hire straight from berkeley, SCU and stanford. They aren't interested in csu STEM students or places like UC merced.
I think STEM is great for the mid west. i dont see too many non-engineering STEM kids having a lot of luck out here. BIochem/biology kids seem to have the worsr luck.
BlvdBrawler
Superstar
No, he needs to try public accounting first. If you want to maximize your career options struggling through PA for a couple of years is better than anything else.
Are you trolling?
pick a better field.
What's a better field? Have you ever heard of an accountant having a hard time getting a job?
What do you mean by business math? Accountibg is more science than math.
You are a dumbass
OP, do you have a bachelors degree?
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You don't post in here all that much homie, but this guy is trolling. I try to get more cats like you and others in the TLR to post in here, but if you don't I blame you for not knowing. He's one of those anti-college people. Always has been. This guy went from being an economic genius supposedly in KTL to suffering for employment right now. I don't buy it. Oh, and he's weird .
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It's business math. Simple shyt. You don't have to provide proof for anything. Accounting is an over saturated market because it's too damn easy to get a degree or certification . The Wall Street firms already wised up to it so they are beginning to hire math majors instead.
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Quant in Business School is multi-faceted and can't really be compared to Accounting. Quant in Business School, at least the Quant I just took was a mix of:
Decision Theory, Probability, Inventory Modeling, Linear Programming, Forecasting and Regression, Simulation, and Queuing Theory
Some topics intersect but not really...and they intersected way more with my Operations Management, Econ, and MIS classes than my Accounting class.
Decision Theory, Probability, Inventory Modeling, Linear Programming, Forecasting and Regression, Simulation, and Queuing Theory
Some topics intersect but not really...and they intersected way more with my Operations Management, Econ, and MIS classes than my Accounting class.