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Posted on 4/24/12 at 8:58 am to yellowfin
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I've never met a financial auditor without an accounting/finance degree
Congratulations, you just met one. My undergrad was physics.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:01 am to foshizzle
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Congratulations, you just met one. My undergrad was physics.
That sounds worse than accounting.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:09 am to reb13
I have a Latin degree and worked in external audit. But I have a BS & MS in accounting too.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:10 am to foshizzle
Didn't you start a doctorate in finance?
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:13 am to kfizzle85
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Didn't you start a doctorate in finance?
I did. Undergrad was physics, then MBA, then worked on Ph.D. for a while before deciding against it.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:16 am to foshizzle
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My undergrad was physics.
So as a psychic you can predict the future? Wow!
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:16 am to foshizzle
Strictly speaking I don't do audit so much now, it's more advising on stuff so a clean one can be obtained. Mostly business process improvement, accounting model cleanup, compliance with Treasury standards, that sort of thing.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 9:53 am to GeismarGeauxer
One of the girls at Starbucks saw my Centenary shirt and said "Oh, I graduated from Centenary last year."
I was thinking to myself 'and you're working at Starbucks?' So, I said "What was your major?"
Her: "Theater."
I was thinking to myself 'and you're working at Starbucks?' So, I said "What was your major?"
Her: "Theater."
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:07 am to Zach
I know two kids that went to Sewannee and got/getting history degrees. The one who is graduated is a middle school teacher. His total cost of school was around 160k, lucky for him is parents are well off.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:42 am to Zach
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One of the girls at Starbucks saw my Centenary shirt and said "Oh, I graduated from Centenary last year." I was thinking to myself 'and you're working at Starbucks?' So, I said "What was your major?" Her: "Theater."
Sucks for her, but never underestimate the value of dealing with college educated people in retail/customer service as a consumer.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:44 am to ZereauxSum
I think she's already moved on to something better. But most theater major enter college thinking they're going to be professional actors. 99% of them will not. Fortunately for her, she got a liberal arts degree at Centenary so she had to take a varied core curriculum.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:50 am to Zach
How about we list majors that are worth going to private school (non-ivy) for.
I'll Start: Finance
I'll Start: Finance
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:55 am to Zach
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But most theater major enter college thinking they're going to be professional actors.
I agree. Lots of people have a distorted view of what doors will be opened with certain degrees.
It's good that she found something better. I imagine her boss hated to let her go. I really believe that people with post secondary education make better customer service employees.
Not saying thats what college grads should aspire to be, but it is kind of nice to see someone across the counter who is clearly well educated and has some professionalism.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:56 am to TheHiddenFlask
Are we talking Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, or Tulane, TCU, SMU?
Given the alternative of Finance at LSU, I wouldn't pay $40k a year for a Finance degree from Tulane.
Given the alternative of Finance at LSU, I wouldn't pay $40k a year for a Finance degree from Tulane.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 10:58 am to GeismarGeauxer
The basic issue is that prior to about the GI bill in 1944, college entrants were far fewer and thus had better access to white-collar jobs, even if that category was smaller as well. They had less competition.
So in the 1920s, you could major in French Literature or Sociology or whatever, and still get a quality job. What was key was the piece of paper.
Following World War II, we were left as one of the last superpowers. Technology developed quickly in a free market economy with very occasional government infusions like the space program. Concurrently, more people were entering college starting with the GI surge. So now that we live in a technological age, a lot of employers needs very technical skills from their employees. Consequently, the downfall of the liberal arts education.
As for architecture, I would think that's tied heavily to the construction trades. If people aren't building buildings, there's no need for architects to design them.
So in the 1920s, you could major in French Literature or Sociology or whatever, and still get a quality job. What was key was the piece of paper.
Following World War II, we were left as one of the last superpowers. Technology developed quickly in a free market economy with very occasional government infusions like the space program. Concurrently, more people were entering college starting with the GI surge. So now that we live in a technological age, a lot of employers needs very technical skills from their employees. Consequently, the downfall of the liberal arts education.
As for architecture, I would think that's tied heavily to the construction trades. If people aren't building buildings, there's no need for architects to design them.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 11:00 am to TheHiddenFlask
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How about we list majors that are worth going to private school (non-ivy) for.
I'll Start: Finance
Outside of engineering, I suspect that's it.
In finance, the school dictates who will interview you. Not sure if that's true elsewhere.
Maybe Econ or Comp Sci?
Posted on 4/24/12 at 11:00 am to lsu711
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Duke
Does note even have a major in finance available, nor does
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Vanderbilt
Posted on 4/24/12 at 11:04 am to TheHiddenFlask
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How about we list majors that are worth going to private school (non-ivy) for.
I'm not sure I'd pay private school tuition in any major. Statistics show that in terms of undergraduate education, career success between elite private school graduates and state school graduates is very slim. It's only the very elite jobs that have a firm Ivy/Top 25 Univesrity majority, and you can still get into those jobs from anywhere if you work hard enough.
With graduate schools, it makes more of a difference on where you went to school, but not in absolute terms.
The key thing in all of this is how well you actually do at your school. If you do well at a state school, you're going to do fine in no matter what you do. There's only a very few private schools with which it might be worth it to go into debt, namely a few of the Ivies, MIT and maybe Stanford. It's probably not worth it to go into debt to go to Tulane.
Posted on 4/24/12 at 11:05 am to lsu711
Tulane's finance network is so much unbelievably better than LSU its absolutely worth 40k a year. Can you get there from LSU? Yes, there's posters here that can attest to that for sure, but the number of guys I've met in Houston from Tulane who aren't any smarter or even more prepared (meaning did a bunch internships and busted arse in college) who have awesome jobs is pretty amazing.
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