Early Life Crisis

[soup]

I think you should drop out of school and become a sheep herder for the summer with a close(male) friend.

lol

[LaG KiLLeR]

Yo guys, I'm going really tough period in my life. Should I take gr. 11 chem in summer school, skip gr. 11 bio and take gr. 12 bio + chem next year? I had basically set myself up to be an accountant/something in business field but now I'm second guessing myself. I am a really academic student who is usually top of his grade marks wise. I don't know if I should be a Chartered Accountant (5 years) or a Doctor (7 years of school)

Any insight? =(

I'll tell you straight up, I'm working part-time as an accounting assistant for a non-profit (with a CFA, 2 CPAs, and 3 staff accountants) and I would NOT encourage you to go into the accounting field because, quite frankly, it's not much fun. If you enjoy counting numbers and talking about money all day then by all means, but if you want to enjoy your job, I suggest the other route.

And fortunately for my case, the job is only to support higher education! I hope this helps


P.S. It's not a dead field, there's still a great demand for accountants (of course, those with actual CPA degrees are often more desired than non-degree, but once you're hired and trained, you're pretty much good to go...you just won't start higher on the ladder). And I would like to think that there will always be a good demand for accountants because there will always be a need for people to fix up financial mistakes....and due to the fact that it's not much of an attractive job aside from its economic incentives.

[Epinephrine]

managerial accountants (the kind you're talking about who work inside companies) are probably decreasing, which i've seen too.. at my dad's work, 5 years ago there were 9 members of the accounting department, compared to 3 now. but i really don't think excel or any accounting software has much to do with it. they're just getting more efficient and getting rid of 10 non-degree accountants with 1 CPA.... which is good news if you want to major in accounting (and take the CPA).

as for public accounting, it's far from shrinking. i don't know about canadaville, but as long as the US tax code is over 16k pages and there's new reporting and auditing regulations every year, accounting isn't going anywhere. we had 4 layoffs during this recession. 4 out of 440 employees. i think the porn industry had more than that.

but you definitely need to decide what you want to do. it's not for everyone, and unless you really want to do it, you'll kill yourself halfway through your 1st tax season.

I guess I was more thinking about in the last 30 years or so. Certainly when my dad started, accountants took up floors and floors of people because you had to do all the calculations using your brain. Perhaps the field has since stabilized now at a new equilibrium post-technology.

Finding a job I think is all about your ambitions in life. What do you want from life is the most important thing to figure out first. And then you figure out how much money that life would cost. And THEN you should think about what kind of jobs you could possibly do that could get you that much money.

Unless you have an overwhelming burning desire to go into one field or another, I find it's better to think in those terms. I only say this because i've seen tons of people with their 'dream jobs' who completely hate their lives because their lifestyle is not what they thought it'd be.

[DoTheFandango]

that's not a crisis, talk to me if you ever want to know about crises in life.

until then, stop worrying about little things.

[RATTY...]

Yo guys, I'm going really tough period in my life. Should I take gr. 11 chem in summer school, skip gr. 11 bio and take gr. 12 bio + chem next year? I had basically set myself up to be an accountant/something in business field but now I'm second guessing myself. I am a really academic student who is usually top of his grade marks wise. I don't know if I should be a Chartered Accountant (5 years) or a Doctor (7 years of school)

Any insight? =(

You're obviously more intelligent and have seem to be better prepared for higher education than most of the retards playing SS. Choose something you'll like which will give you an acceptable paycheck each month.

Luxury problem.

[PaulOakenfold]

Ratty...

[RATTY...]

EDIT:wrong button, delete

[Stompa]

Yo guys, I'm going really tough period in my life. Should I take gr. 11 chem in summer school, skip gr. 11 bio and take gr. 12 bio + chem next year? I had basically set myself up to be an accountant/something in business field but now I'm second guessing myself. I am a really academic student who is usually top of his grade marks wise. I don't know if I should be a Chartered Accountant (5 years) or a Doctor (7 years of school)

Any insight? =(

I decided not to take Chem II or Bio II in 12th grade, and I kind of wish I had. It set me up to take fewer sciences courses in college and some days I wish I had done neuropsych instead of just psych. So that's my insight.

[Liquid Blue]

You're obviously more intelligent and have seem to be better prepared for higher education than most of the retards playing SS. Choose something you'll like which will give you an acceptable paycheck each month.

Luxury problem.

genius answer

"choose something you like which pays well"

[dads revenge]

Porn Star FTW

[Infrared]

early life crisis: all i like to do is play video games. what should i do in lifes?

[gran guerrero]

suk dix?