Psychology Major Senior to Acct?

samuez
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:09:36 +0000

You know, I’ve probably spent 2 weeks arguing about this in my head, now I’m suffering from anxiety and having hard time breathing as a result. Ugh.

I’m a psychology major in my last 2 semester of school year, and my ASIAN parent mom doesn’t even know. I brought it up because I’ve just realized how utterly pointless my degree could get me into. I’m not a caring person nor do I like helping people all that much because I seem to lack empathy with them. So, a career and going further with my psychology degree seem like pointless. Though I’m only 3 class away from completing it, and a total of 30 credit hours from completing it in may 2013.

My trouble lies in that I don’t know anything about accountant other than what I’ve learned in Intro to Financial Accounting and all of these dreadful google searches about what being an accountant is like, or the hours, and etc, etc. I’ve actually email a family friend who’s a accountant but haven’t reply back yet so nothing in that end. I know it’s important to me that I get a decent degree so I can get a job and support my mom who’s working 66+ hours a week in a supermarket job where she’s standing all day. It’s frustrating as hell that seeing your near 60 year old mother doing that for the past 5-6 years just to support the family and myself. Ya, a sob story there is but the impact of what I’ve need to do in the last few weeks are coming to me now.

In two days are the last day for regular registration, and I’ve already talked to the advisor to get into a double degree plan, but I’m thinking of now just dropping the psych degree and remove those 9 credit hours (which will only remove 6 credit from my class since one of them was a requirement for communication, and if I don’t take that, I’ll have to take the accounting communication course in business degree). Mainly, because of the spring 2013’s final psychology class which is directed research or individual study. I don’t know any of my professor well enough for them to give me a chance at doing that and actually getting a psych degree in May 2013. I’m debating taking that off so I’d can focus on the ACCT degree instead.

Of course, what’s all of this about? It’s just my frustration at my excuse for not researching my degree before picking it and now the frustration at having to change major at the senior level where I’ll have to stay an another two years to focus on getting an ACCT degree that I don’t even know if I’ll do good or well on.

What’s your opinion on this? Should I stick with dual degree, though I’m stress over the detail of the spring psych class as well as the experimental project course happening this fall? Or should I just stick with the psych degree, and get master in ACCT (I prefer not since I’m on need-based tuition and I hate being in debt especially since I’m not sure of the difficulty of accounting is above me).

I can’t take the intermediate financial accounting until Fall of 2013 which is the hardest of the ACCT and determine if you got the willpower for accounting. And of course, the prospect of getting an accounting degree within 4 semester which total around 68-70 credit hours.

And yea, I’m willing to sacrifice my happiness of a horrible job experience just so I can get some money in and support my mother instead of her supporting me. I’ve also looked at jobs and seeing how they required experience and so forth and that finding a accounting job is hard and such but I’m willing to do VERY entry level jobs just to get experience or try for fall 2013/spring 2014 internship if I could get them while going to school full time and working part time on weekends.

sigh, I’m …sigh.