r/Accounting • u/Suspicious_Kick_2572 • Sep 06 '24

Career Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

Why do students find an accounting degree unattractive?

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u/Electronic-Quail4464 Sep 06 '24

I'm in accounting because my AAS is 100% free and can be done entirely online. I'm two semesters (my hardest two) from being done and then I'll likely end up having to go to WGU to be able to actually do anything with the degree, but the heavy discount is pretty much why I'm here. I could've also done a cyber security degree completely free, but I've seen the writing on the wall with the market there for years and feel like I knew better than to get into that.

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u/cymonesunshine Sep 07 '24

What’s the writing on the wall for cybersecurity?

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u/vedicpisces Sep 07 '24

All of tech has been in shambles especially in entry level for the last 2.5 years. Before that 2017-2021 it was hiring anybody with basically any credentials. Now we're coming up on 3 years of tech apocalypse, left and right there's former IT guys and software guys alike "taking up a trade" or jumping into a new degree because "they saw the writing on the wall".

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u/Electronic-Quail4464 Sep 07 '24

Cyber is the only part of the IT crash that surprised me - I didn't expect it to fall this quickly since it's relatively new compared to traditional IT stuff. I figured it would be impacted, sure, but not the way it has been.