I know my question sounds weird, but I am totally feeling lost right now. I recently got accepted into the Medical Lab Science (the people who test your blood and urine) at my school. I don’t know why but I feel I am not belong there. The knowledge is very new and the program is heavy (I got really bad grades that I never get before) but the most important thing is the scariness of using needle to get blood. I used to thing that I will overcome that and after graduation, I may go to industry to be a food scientist or cosmetologists. But I doubt that since the orientation day, professors always talk about patients and hospitals. I asked them and know that the jobs for MLS in industry are really hard to find. I really do not see myself work in a hospital or clinics after volunteer there many times. I ask my advisor and career service at my school, but all they do is sending me all over the place to find my answer myself or show my how to use the career website to find jobs (which I searched many times before I came to see them, I thought that only accountancy advisor did help me when answer exactly my questions). I love labs but not in the hospital. I used to think that I after graduation I may try to apply for Pharmacy school, but realize it may not for me since till now I haven’t getting anything ready for that except doing the requirement courses, and I doubt I really love it, after starting with MLS).
I don’t mention the salary here because I don’t want a high pay job, just about $30-35,000 after graduation is fine, maybe even lower just to get experience. I just want to switch to Accounting because I like in the office and numbers. I don’t mind if it is boring because I am a bored person, too. I like math and did quite okay in the calculus I and II (I did not have chance to take high math to see how I do because I change my major bioengineering into pre- MLS). But I really need to think more about that because this will be my last chance ( I am in junior year as a senior standing, with 3.8 GPA, and done with minor in Chemistry).
Anyone who major in Accountant, may you give me an idea of exactly accountant going to do in the real life? Does the courses work extremely hard? And will the job findings be extremely competitive (my college is just a small university in town)?
I totally lost now and really need your help, any advice is appreciate, even if you just yell at me for my dumb mind is okay.
Thank you so much for taking time and reading my post.
Have a nice day.
You will need to do an extra year to get accredited as an accountant ( aacsb accredited mandatory - Baruch is really good for that )and youll have plenty of job offers and a good salary.
The course work is easier than engineering but requires an affinity for accuracy.
Mls does not sound like the right major for you and does not prepare for any further studies.
Can you still switch classes or drop one (you need to be enrolled in 12credits to keep your scholarship. )
Thank you for your reply. I need at least 2 more years to finish my degree if I switch to accountant. The MLS program is an already- set- up program like any other healthcare program , so I can not drop any class once enroll in ( they do not accept any more student drop to part time because they only have 4 slots for part time as the whole program, and they are filled).
If I switch I will find some random courses just to fill up with 12 credits, maybe need to pay a lot extra money. But If I stay till the semester finished, I will face my GPA down to just 3.6, which very bad for accounting.
The teachers are so nice, but I just cannot find my interest in the classes.
Thank you so much.
You could drop a class and not be part time as long as you have 12 credits (semester).
Don’t switch to any “random” course, look at the accounting 1st-year and 2nd year requirements and see which class you don’t have but could get into now.
MLS is a pre-professional program meant to get you into a job. Since this is a job that you don’t want, there’s NO reason for you to stay in the MLS program.
If you compare to the scale of your lifetime, 1 year is really not much :)…; and you’ll end up with a job you like, are good at, and makes good money.
I cannot drop one class, I just only have option either drop the whole things or continuing with the program. I think about take one economics class (since that is the only one left) and some random courses. 
But I really need to know more about accounting more than just about numbers and calculations aspects because I heard that it is really hard. (The people said MLS is hard too, but also with needles 
, even harder and more scary. I ask question in the Business forum but nobody answer me. I just feel like it may hard to get a job since my school is just a small school in a small town, especially I have a little of language barrier that make people hard to heard me over the phone. That is the only one hold be back right now. May I ask if accountant use phone call a lot, please?
Thank you very much for you reply.
Have a wonderful day.
Well, if you will, anything can be hard.
You don’t find MLS hard, do you? Yet others think it is.
Accounting would be hard for me, because I love words and hate numbers… but I know some who love the precision in Accounting and dislike Humanities classes!
It all depends on what you like.
Accountants don’t deal with people a lot. They might get a phone call once in a while, but that’s not really what the job entails. In fact, there’s a stereotype of accountants not being “people persons” - think of the public persona of Harold Finch in Person Of Interest 
How about you take Principles of Accounting, MicroEconomics, (have you taken statistics? Calculus 1?), Intro to Business, and a gen ed?
Since you attend a small school, it’s probably not accredited for accounting and you’ll likely have to get your 5th year/Master’s in accounting from an accredited institution, here:
http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/accredited-members/global-listing?F_Accreditation=Business+and+Accounting&F_Country=United+States
A VERY GOOD college for accounting is Baruch College, but you’d need family in NYC for it to be cost-effective (tuition is only 15K/year, but housing is horribly expensive. So, if you have relatives/family, you’re good… if not, it’s harder to swing!)
Do you have an 8-semester, full tuition/full ride scholarship at your small school?
I don’t think it’s universally true that accountants don’t deal with people a lot - it really depends on the accountant and exactly what they are doing. Many accountants do direct work with the public preparing tax and financial documents for them, so they may spend much of some of their days consulting directly with their clients, asking questions and providing information. Some accountants at big companies work on teams with other accountants or potentially with other people in financial services. You may not have to be as good at interacting with others as, say, a nurse or a social worker, but it’s probably best if you aren’t an ogre who eschews human interaction that said, OP, you can always get better at the phone, and that isn’t a core competency of accounting.
I don’t understand the leap from “the scariness of using needle” to accounting. Is it because you are severely focused on jobs that are in strong demand?
" I love labs but not in the hospital…I may go to industry to be a food scientist or cosmetolog(y)". There are plenty of lab jobs in non-medical industries, and people with less appropriate degrees than MLS (and people with no degrees) are doing them. These jobs pay the salary you’re looking for. There are laboratory analysis jobs in environmental monitoring, food nutritional and residues evaluation, water quality, forensics, and pharmaceutical, food, food additive, pesticide, ink, oil, adhesives, rubber, paper, petroleum, detergent, fragrance, etc. manufacturing, Here’s a tip: put “chemist” in the search field to exclude most medical laboratory jobs.
If you want to be in demand for non-medical lab jobs, get experience operating HPLC, ICP, and/or GC-MS. Take any available chemistry classes which give you exposure to them. This is more important than what you major in.
@MYOS1634 : Thank you so much for your answer and sorry for being so late to reply. I did take statistics and cal, but I haven’t have any business courses yet. My school said that it was accredited, I don’t know but they seems very proud of that, maybe that is what you are talking about. I took Financial Literacy in high school and found it was interesting, so I just wonder if I may like accountant since it dealing with numbers and facts. And I did not have a full ride scholarship, but I have some scholarships each years from community service and academic grade, not very bad for tuition. ^.^
@juillet : Thank you. The reason I am scared of phone because I was not born in America, so my language is not good compare to others, especially on the phone. I worked as floral clerk now, and I still cannot find confidence to listen on the phone, and mostly I have trouble hearing older people. Some people just do not want to talk with me and request for another person speak English better than me to talk with them. The fact makes me nervous because I am afraid of talking with client on the phone and may make them feel angry at me.
@jjwinkle : Thank you for your reply. I admit that I choose the majors based on facts that they are in high demand (I feel interested in) right now, so the chance I can get a job may be better. When I first change major from bioengineer, accountant and MLS were two of my options, but I choose MLS because it connected more with my science classes, also at that time, I wanted to go to pharmacy school, so really MLS was the choice, but now I feel like I don’t want to spend more time in school for another 4 years at least with a huge debt and end up working in a grocery store, also I have not prepared for application (But pharmacist has high salary, though ). The chemistry degree is hard to find the job now. The salary I am looking for may not even work for a chemist, usually the chemistry requires a master degree for that amount of money. I like the lab and chemistry, that is way I put it as a minor. I entered MLS with the hope exactly with what you told me- a job outside the lab, but my professors told me it is hard to find a job in those areas and the jobs are very rare. I used t think about chemistry- business field major, but it seems hard for a Liberal Art and Science degree having a job with just a bachelor degree.
Thank you all for your replies. I am really appreciated you took your time to answer me and give me helpful advice.
Have a nice day.