Gave up engineering for accounting...worth it?

ClassicRockerDad
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:21:29 +0000

You will graduate. You will get a job.

Every business day for the next 45 years you will get up in the morning. You will go do work for at least 8 hours, likely more. You will return home. The following day: the same. The day after that - same, the day after that - same, the day after that… Yada Yada Yada.

What could you get paid to do that you would want to do anyway. That’s really the question that you should be asking yourself. All of the rest of your post is gibberish.

It’s your life. You own it. It will follow you wherever you go. Nobody else has to live the 45 years that I just described. Just you. Your advisor goes back to his life that he probably enjoys, no worries. FORTY-FIVE YEARS!..

What do you want to do every day for the next 45 years! Forget about money, you’re going to make plenty of it. Personally, I love being an engineer. I’m working on a problem now that I just can’t put down. I think about it constantly. It’s hard but cool. I make slow but steady progress, and it really excites me. I can’t believe sometimes that they actually pay me to do this. I’d want to do it anyway. This does not feel like work. That’s me. I love math.

What gets you excited?