Major in Journalism or Accounting?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>I have to decide my major soon, but I don’t know which I should choose. </p>

<p>Assuming that I can only major in one of these subjects, disregarding my minor, which major do you think is a better career path?</p>

<p>I am strongly passionate about both Journalism an Accounting. Obviously for Accounting, you ultimately end up becoming an accountant.</p>

<p>However, what can you do with a degree in Journalism? Write for a newspaper for the rest of your life?</p>

<p>Which major opens more doors and offer a job that has a decent salary?</p>

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<p>You could do easy research and figure out that journalism is not the way to go. You won’t make a good salary, the jobs are few (and it’s not looking any brighter for the future), and it’s probably more along the lines of that you need to open doors to get in rather than getting in easily and having doors opened because of journalism.</p>

<p>Go for accounting. If it’s career security you want. </p>

<p>People go for journalism because they absolutely love it and don’t want to do anything else. Not for the easy/secure career.</p>

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<p>You could always become an accountant and then transfer over to journalism as one of those “experts” they have for various business segments both in print and television.</p>

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<p>Accounting is by far the better option for higher salary and job stability. But you have to want to be an accountant.</p>

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<p>I know you said only think about being able to major in one, but if you did both… that would be great on either end. You could end up writing for a business newspaper or magazine or website, using your accounting background. You could work independently or as a salaried employee doing technical writing or business writing. There are a lot of option, but you need to be open to the possibilities. Even if you can only major in one, you could choose accounting and take a bunch of journalism classes to have the technical journalistic writing under your belt, as well. It’s something you should really look into.</p>