Currently, I’m a freshman working toward a BA in accounting at Binghamton University. If everything goes according to plan, I should earn my degree spring 2019—a year earlier than most others. After that, I was planning on staying an extra year to earn my masters, and (maybe) sit for the CPA exam.
But I’ve been considering lately taking a year off after I graduate in 2019 and when I go back to get my masters. Why? As far removed as it may be from accounting, I love to write, and old teachers, students, even professors themselves, have been trying to steer me in the direction of doing something with writing, occupationally. Shifting my focus completely to writing, I don’t think, would be a very wise move in the long run, but I was thinking of using a gap year to write—write, write, write, write, write, and see if any opporunities surface from this. I just don’t have the kind of time in college to dedicate to writing, and I don’t see that changing once I actually enter the accounting field.
I guess my question is if taking a gap year for someone majoring in accounting would sully my job outlook post-post-grad? Would a gap year exist as a stain on my resume when I start applying for jobs?