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<p>Notice how you capitalized engineering? It looks to me like you’ve already made up your mind on what you want him to do.</p>
<p>As for academic probation, he’d have to have had under a 2.0 cumulative at some point to be on such probation. He was never on it if he has a 3.1 unless he’s a junior or higher and had several very strong-GPA semesters to make up for it. How far in is he?</p>
<p>majoring in finance/accounting/management would net an average offer of 60k, 50k, 40k respectively at a target school. Average HR starting salary is around 40k. </p>
<p>The difference is with advancement. It is much easier to break six figures in accounting, consulting, and finance than it is in HR. </p>
<p>If he does not go to a target school, then landing a great job in any of those fields will require a lot of networking and luck. Accounting is probably the safest choice. </p>
<p>My advice for you is to find a different guy. This one sounds unambitious, naive, and boring.</p>
<p>Average HR starting salary is like 9-13 dollars an hour phaeth. The starting job title in human resources is HR assistant or HR clerk and the salary information for entry level workers in those job titles can be found here:</p>
<p>[PayScale</a> - Human Resources (HR) Assistant Wages, Hourly Wage Rate by Years Experience](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Human_Resources_(HR)_Assistant/Hourly_Rate/by_Years_Experience]PayScale”>Human Resources (HR) Assistant Hourly Pay in 2023 | PayScale)</p>
<p>And the only way you’re going to start close to 50 or 60k as an accoutant is by starting with a big 4 firm coming from a highly selective accounting program. Most accountants out of a typical university would be extremely lucky to make more than 40k a year. The starting job title for most accounting grads is going to be that of accounting assistant (also knows as junior accountant) or accounting clerk. They make between 9-13 dollars an hour fresh out of college:</p>
<p>[PayScale</a> - Accounting Assistant Wages, Hourly Wage Rate by Years Experience](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Accounting_Assistant/Hourly_Rate/by_Years_Experience]PayScale”>Accounting Assistant Hourly Pay in 2023 | PayScale)</p>
<p>[PayScale</a> - Accounting Clerk Wages, Hourly Wage Rate by Years Experience](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Accounting_Clerk/Hourly_Rate/by_Years_Experience]PayScale”>Accounting Clerk Hourly Pay in 2023 | PayScale)</p>
<p>The only way to expect the job title of accountant straight out of college is if you come from a top 20 accounting program with a high GPA. Even then, when accounting for number of hours worked, entry level grads with the title of accountant only make between 11-16 dollars an hour.</p>
<p>I want to apologize for my post above. It was definitely too mean!</p>
<p>By Endicott, “I want to apologize for my post above. It was definitely too mean!” </p>
<p>Yeah, you are right :), but what you have said is true.</p>
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<p>Is that before or after taxes?</p>
<p>^^^ Before taxes. And I’m dividing the typical starting salary of an “accountant” by 50-60 hours of work. Dividing by 40 yields much better results, but is out of line with reality.</p>
<p>Well an entry-level BIG FOUR* auditor working 60 hours a week would make about $17 an hour before taxes, or approximately $14 an hour after taxes.</p>
<p>*proper noun</p>
<p>Why does she care how many hours that dude works?</p>
<p>To the OP: What exactly are your career plans? It’s one thing if you are sitting on a free ride to Yale Law School and another if your plan is to teach yoga. Not everyone can handle a significant other who makes a lot less or a lot more than they do. Also, not a lot of people can handle part-time yoga instructor girlfriends telling them they need to work 60 hours a week in a business suit in order to be a good provider.</p>
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<p>So then if we divide net compensation of a BB by the 80-120 hour work week we’d get around $15/hr.</p>
<p>wages/hr will suck no matter what field he goes into, which is why the ability to advance becomes so much more important. </p>
<p>And yes, my numbers were from target schools so accounting = big 4 , consulting = MBB* or 2nd tier, and finance = BB* </p>
<p>But those are probably unrealistic expectations for someone who was put on academic probation.</p>
<p>No, if he went into engineering, computer science, or even nursing, his hourly wages would be 20-30/hr, so they don’t all suck, you just have to do your homework.</p>
<p>At least 51% of people in those majors end up not working in their field of study. Compsci and nursing often lead to careers in one’s field that are still low-paying.</p>
<p>First of all, you have every right to meddle in his life. He seems like a fool who doesn’t know up from down. Good job on trying to set his life straight. </p>
<p>Second, by all means don’t make him go to HR. The economy is crap right now and will remain this way for a while. Employers are looking for people with solid quantitative skills. He needs to do either accounting/finance or crawl back to engineering. Let him know that when the economy gets better, he can change careers. A major in accounting doesn’t mean you are set to do accounting your whole life. If he really wants to help people, he can do that when the economy is better. He can also work as an accountant for a non-profit that does charity work. You don’t have to be in HR to help people.</p>
<p>Please forgive me, but I do not understand how HR people are helping others. As I know, they hire and fire people. Can you imagine firing someone? I do not want to experience both sides in my life…</p>
<p>I have to agree with those who have said to either let him do his thing or to give him light, non-judgmental advice.</p>
<p>One of the greatest parts of college is trying a variety of things, many of which turn out great, and many of which certainly don’t. If you tell him what your parents have said, as well as what other people’s advice is, then you’ve done all that you should. If he chooses to continue on the path that he’s on then at least he’ll look back and think “I did what I wanted, and I learned from it.”</p>
<p>Whereas if you persist and convince him against his better judgment to become an accountant, and he hates it, then 10 years from now he may look back and think “I really should never have let another person influence my life decisions so much.”</p>
<p>Of course these are only two of infinite possibilities, I just seriously recommend giving him nonobjective advice and let him (being the big boy that he is) make his own informed decision.</p>
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<p>Whether he has a great job or crummy job is not based on his major, but based on his personality. Wanting him to pick a particular major to fit your desire of steady income won’t work. </p>
<p>Pick a boyfriend with the right work ethic, not a boyfriend studying the “right” college major.</p>
<p>Trust me on this one.</p>
<p>This sounds like a situation my cousin was in when we was in college. He went to UIUC as a mechanical engineer. His girlfriend from high school also went to UIUC with him she was a history major. She chose a easy major for herself because she knew her boyfriend was going to make a lot of money for the both of them as an engineer. </p>
<p>Well he stopped doing a engineer degree to switch to a math major. She believe he had no future($$) with that major and she broke the relationship off. Today he is 32, semi-retired, and doing free lance consulting. He struck “gold” in the markets with a small options firm. </p>
<p>A major does not make the person, the person makes the major.</p>
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<p>I plan on becoming a Neo-Natal Nurse Practitioner (avg salary $90,000), my dream job. But, as of right now, I am shooting for Register Nurse (avg salary $50,000).</p>
<p>I am not pressuring him out of HR, but I have stated to him that accountants/finance majors typically have an easier time in the job market, plus between myself and him, he has plenty of great connections. I haven’t said anything to him. This has been something that has been in the back of my mine. The HR majors I know work at desks pushing papers. I know he wants to help people, but according to most of the older, more experience business people I have talked to, HR isn’t as rosy as he makes it out to be.</p>
<p>I would NEVER force him to pick a major he didn’t want. But I don’t want him walking into HR thinking that he will play the role as a savior when HR is extremely sneaky.</p>
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<p>His major has nothing to do with why I am with him. If that were the case, this relationship would have been over after he decided to opt out of Engineering, but even then I was 100% supportive. </p>
<p>I have had to hear my parents argue constantly over bills, debt, and finances. I just don’t want us to have to always worr, and a steady income would help that.</p>
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<p>What does capitalization have anything to do with it? I capitalize Engineering, English, etc…just about all majors.</p>
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<p>He is entering his junior year. At my school, if you get below a 2.0 for one quarter, you automatically put on academic probation, no matter how high your GPA is. His GPA, thanks to two AMAZING quarters is a little over a 3.0.</p>