is accounting considered a "strong" major?

jonahrubin
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:48:52 +0000

No one should fool themselves into thinking accountants should have the respect of medical doctors. That said, remember there are still plenty of jerks who treat their doctors and nurses like crap and do nothing but try to find fault with them in order to sue. As an accountant, at least you aren’t going to deal with anybody’s bodily fluids(unless you want to, after hours). You also don’t have to go through 4 years of arduous medical school and 3+ of residency and whatever training you need to become a specialist.

With respect to lawyers, laymen are of course going to not give proper weight with CPA’s vs the average lawyer from Cooley(the McDonald’s of Law Schools). Your girlfriend’s grandma will probably think you do what the guys at H&R Block do, or sit around with a green eyeshade on punching away at a calculator all day. Oh well. If you are upset that your boss who is also a CPA doesn’t treat you like you are anything special, well, that’s pretty much par for the course in life. Go be a Navy SEAL, see if your platoon commander who is also a Navy SEAL is astonished by the fact that you are one too.

The truth is that the majority of lawyers aren’t living life like Tom Cruise in The Firm. They’ve got 200k in debt and are making about as much as the average monkey slaving away as a Big Four staff associate. People in the know realize that, just like we know to laugh at someone who is a professor at the University of Phoenix. Sure, some do end up pulling 200k at Wachtell in their first year out of law school. Some idiots spend all their money on Powerball tickets and pull in 200 million. That doesn’t mean you should put all your tuition money into lottery tickets instead.