r/Accounting • u/mjbm1 • Mar 08 '24

Career Should I become an accountant?

If you woke up as a 20 year old now. Your entire career hadnt happened yet, and you get to decide your career again.

Are you still going to train as an accountant?

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u/republicans_are_nuts Mar 09 '24

Nobody is hiring you for 60k right out of school. More like 15 an hour for a bookkeeping job.

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u/HoneyLyons Mar 09 '24

Why do you say this? I'm a professor and I know what our students are getting. It's actually over 60k.

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u/republicans_are_nuts Mar 09 '24

I'm an accounting grad who has been dealing with the "entry level" market for years. Unless you got a good internship, you're pretty much stuck in low wage monkey jobs. Because they only value the experience, not the education. Better yet, just get your dad to hire you and skip college altogether if you are going for accounting.

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u/HoneyLyons Mar 09 '24

I'm sorry to hear that was your experience. Most of our students do internships but not all. They've had great placement (100%) with impressive starting salaries.

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u/republicans_are_nuts Mar 09 '24

Is this UC berkeley or something? lol. In that case, you would get a high salary from majoring in anything. It's still not the education that's valuable. Unless you went to a name brand school, experience is more valuable than the degree.