ADVICE on Major Change- Business or Engineering (Big Difference)?

ncs201718
Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:28:40 +0000

Hello,

(help???)

I am an upcoming 2nd year student at the University of Georgia. I am currently an accounting major, but thinking about changing to ChemE. Due to some social anxiety and also lack of discipline, I made a GPA lower than 3.0 and also got some withdrawals my first year of college. However, I am determined to make a come back and regain my lost HOPE scholarship as well.

In high school, Georgia Tech offered me admission for my 2nd year as long as I take the right prerequisite classes (http://admission.gatech.edu/conditional-transfer-pathway) but I messed up that terribly by withdrawing from Calculus while I was at UGA. When I messed up Calculus, I went to my advisor and he recommended business majors, so I picked accounting because I thought it was the best one.

So I already signed up for three business classes for Fall 2017 and bought my accounting textbook, but I just don’t feel like accounting is the right field to go into: I have never considered business in high school, and have always been more interested in science-related fields. My early goal in HS was to become a pharmacist, but after job shadowing for a school-project and researching about pharmacists online, I decided to not do pharmacist or any type of premed/pre-health. My other plan was engineering, and I was all set to transfer to Tech to do that until I messed up Calculus.

:-/ People who have full-time job experience: Is the “picking the right field” just self-indulgent fluff (a job is just a job, something to be done and everywhere is the same), or are different job fields really better for some people than others to the point where it makes a major difference? :-/ I feel like I should change to engineering, but it feels impractical.

To change to engineering, I will be looking at more risk for failure, wasting some credits and textbook money, probable delay of graduation to 5-year or 6-year and all the financial problems that come with it, and also since my parents don’t want me to try it anymore because they don’t think I will do well, I’ll have to not tell or even lie to them about my classes until I prove myself through getting an internship, all A’s in classes, but even then they’ll still know that I deceived them and I’ll feel bad.

Accounting is ranked very high at my school, and engineering is not very good at UGA. So should I just stay in Accounting, even though it doesn’t “feel” right at all?