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I don’t know if I am looking for an exact answer or not. Maybe I am just trying to get a feel for what the different options are like. I realize that just because you start somewhere doesn’t mean you can’t switch later. I am majoring in accounting and business management. There have been times where I have felt that I definitely want to get into accounting, and times that I have questioned it. I switched majors a few times in college. Initially I was an exercise science major and wanted to become a strength and conditioning coach in the NHL. I wanted to in order to be able to keep the training aspect as a part of my life once I was done playing and because I enjoyed training and the feeling of becoming a better hockey player. After sitting down with the same sports psychologist as zach parise on the mn wild, I started to realize that the off-ice training did not have the ROI that I thought, and that the mental part of the game had a much larger impact once skill was already developed. Because of that, I decided to switch majors. I switched to business marketing. When I took marketing, it wasn’t what I thought. I was expecting more along the lines of communication/sales and it was actually about the pricing strategy, ect. I then switched to business organizational leadership. My grades suffered a bit from not having a real passion for anything in school. After a while, I began to think, what is the point of this major? It is mostly common sense. (Marketing, Management, Business Ethics) and I came across my first accounting course since it was a requirement for my business major. It wasn’t a lot of math like I had thought, and I actually enjoyed the concept, the idea of the accounts switching back and forth, ect. I decided to become an accounting major. When I took my 2nd accounting course, managerial accounting which is the precursor to cost accounting, I actually enjoyed it and still do. It seemed like that aspect of accounting would allow someone to be more of a difference maker and thinker than traditional accounting. There are times when I think that I want to have a career in accounting because I find it more interesting than any other part of business, but there are other times that I wonder if that is a good enough reason to go into the field. I consider myself to have an entrepreneurial mindset and to be someone that thinks analytically and not always traditionally. I’m always reading some kind of Harvard Business Review book or a book of the like. In fact, sometimes my grades will suffer because I spend more time reading Harvard Business Review than my school books because I believe outside of a grade in the class, those books have a greater ROI. I am open to the idea of leaning more towards the business analyst type of positions once I graduate. I have seen entry level business analyst positions posted on indeed. However, I humbly realize that just because I might have the mind for it, doesn’t mean that other business experience wouldn’t be very helpful, and that includes accounting experience. I am getting experience as an accounting assistant right now. Sometimes I like it a lot, sometimes its, meh. It depends on the task I am completing. While I say this, I also am not expecting every job to be one I absolutely love. If I start in a cash reconciliation position, there is nothing stopping me from doing some kind of business analysis later in my career. I’m sure a position as a business analyst would involve financial, HR, marketing, ect. While I see accounting as something I would rather do in school than any other major, I am unsure if it is something that I would rather do out of school than anything else. I am not saying it can’t be, but that I am just unsure. Let’s say I graduate, and an accounting position opens up, great, I can do that and always switch later. Or, if a business analyst position opens up, I wouldn’t mind considering it as a possibility. However, I really would like to know what I am getting into. I really don’t know whats involved with a business analyst position. I really don’t know what’s involved with some of the entry level accounting positions either. And in addition, it would be nice to not spend time in a part of a career that I eventually decide I do not want to do. Any advice?
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