squistion
Footballguy
What do you think his campaign slogan will be? Off the top of my head...
"Make America Hard Delete"
"Vote for me or I'll kill myself"
"Build The Walgreens"
"I have black friends"
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Decision Confirmed: University of South Florida (1 Viewer)
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"Make America Hard Delete"
"Vote for me or I'll kill myself"
"Build The Walgreens"
"I have black friends"
SaintsInDome2006
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UPDATE:
Well fellas, I've officially made it! I've been down in Florida for a week now and I am loving this weather. I am setup for orientation at the University of South Florida: St Petersburg this Friday!
The adventure is officially beginning and I am struggling to decide whether or not I want my degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
Well fellas, I've officially made it! I've been down in Florida for a week now and I am loving this weather. I am setup for orientation at the University of South Florida: St Petersburg this Friday!
The adventure is officially beginning and I am struggling to decide whether or not I want my degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
Grace Under Pressure
Footballguy
Congrats. A vote here for Accounting. Lots of employment opportunities flow from there.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Great congratulations this might change your life if you let it. You're in the South now. Relax.
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Oh and don't be a Bucs fan.
Ditkaless Wonders
Footballguy
Only a matter of time before Em gets a taste of brown sugar. It will change his life.
Premier
Footballguy
Geographically he is. Tampa isn't the type of southern town he's probably looking for.
joffer
Footballguy
cstu
Footballguy
Finance by a mile. Accounting looks like the most boring job I could imagine.
RUSF18
Footballguy
Dr Oadi
Footballguy
DiVeRsItY!!!!!!!!... there a reason the % of white people is highlighted as a key stat in every school listing?
SaintsInDome2006
Footballguy
Peyton Marino
Footballguy
i don't think you have the attention to detail for accounting. undergrad econ is BS. finance is probably where you want to be.
sbonomo
Footballguy
Better late than never? Do you have any idea what you want to do in your career? I think this will guide you to degree you get. Economics is the baseline degree for all ivy league and higher end schools (Stanford, Berkley, etc). The thought process is that you are going to get a year or two of experience then get your master's in accounting, finance, etc. Given the fact that you are so late to the game this is probably not a good option for you. Accounting/Finance - We all know that the accounting degree is much tougher. Do you have what it takes to get through it? Are you setting your sights too high? Finance is a good option because you can take the majority of the accounting classes plus real world type classes (case studies, financial statement analysis, etc) that will be instantly applicable. I think the biggest question is if you will actually dedicate yourself to the work load and not quit. Happy to answer any questions you may have.Eminence said:
Joe Summer
Footballguy
Were you always planning to go to USF St. Pete or was that a recent development?
He doesn't appear to and what is worse is that he doesn't seem to care about it.
The problem is that not being detail oriented will be a stumbling block to advancement is any type of corporate job - the exception being if you are the boss and can delegate to people who do pay attention to details (problem is that you got to get to be the boss in the first place).
Peyton Marino
Footballguy
i've done well and I think I have a below average, though still reasonable attention to detail. I try to make up for it in analytical skills. I'd rather do the heavy lifting in analysis and let someone else clean up around the edges. ymmv here though, depends very much on where you land and who you work with. definitely don't go into a new job going "yea i'm an ideas guy, never been much for the small details. you understand, yea?"
That's my current lean, however, from where I stand right now with everything that has transferred, I am:
71 credit hours away from a degree in Economics (BA), 68 if I test out of Math
92 - 104 credit hours away from a degree in Accounting (BS)
I'm really kicking myself in the ### because there are more than a few classes that I have to retake / would have expedited my Accounting degree if I would have gotten better grades when I took the classes at Baker College.
I'm honestly loving it. The billboards down here were all pro-Christian and its been nothing but a bunch of older people from what I've seen.
I'm the strongest guy at my gym!
Never, lol.
There's a better chance of me becoming a Bucanneers fan than this, lol!
Every since that last lab went wrong... I turned my back and have hung up my goggles for good.
My lean is Finance over Economics but it's the same problem as Accointing.
I'm 74 hours away from a Bachelors in Economics and about 92 - 104 away from a degree in Finance.
I could do Cuban before a lot of other nationalities, lol.
You're probably right, I think Finance is the call too but my credits just don't add up in that direction.
More finance, ugh...
Thanks for the detailed post and better late than never is right, lol!
I really wish I hadn't wasted as much time as I have but I still have the optimistic goal of having my Masters Degree by 30.
The big hangup for me between the 3 degrees Accounting, Economics, and Finance is the "business common core". Those classes alone will add at least an extra semester to my journey and time is of the essence for me right now.
To circumvent this, I'm going for an non-business Economics Degree which I'm about 70 credit hours away from. It'll take me two full years along with some summer classes but I will have a Bachelors.
I'm thinking the current plan is to finish the Bachelors in Economics, backtrack and finish up the "Business Core" which then puts me on the path to an MBA.
I don't know what the hell I can do with an Economics degree. But I assume it's fairly similar to that as Business Admin or Finance.
Thoughts?
One of my pre-requisites as silly as this sounds was to go to school by the beach. I entertained the Tampa Bay campus for awhile but read it was in a bad area and passed.
My other options are FGCU who only accepted about 54 of my credits and FAU who have accepted 70+ of my credits like USFSP but I haven't talked to a counselor there as to how far I am from an Accounting, Economics, or Finance degree there.
I'm likely to call up on Monday to setup an appointment. It's closer to where my parents live but I'm not a fan of the demographics of the school. It's my settle school, if I can get my Accounting / Finance degree in 80 credit hours or less there, I might bite.
I might not have the attention to detail needed, I'm not really sure. I was juggling a 40 hour a week job when I was running through my Associates, so not sure if that hindered me significantly or not.
Good as in warmer or cooler? Right now, I'm living with my parents.
In-state tuition is like $159 a credit hour vs $500 out-of-state. I was initially planning on taking a full-load of classes but have decided that would be a waste of money since I may be able to claim residency as soon as January 1st.
I was also considering using the excess of my student loans to rent an apartment near campus but have instead decided it would be wiser to bank that money, stay at home, go back to work, and move out there whenever I can get the $159 a credit hour and take a full-slate of classes.
Right now, my plan is to waffle around in Palm Bay for 4-5 months, save some money, take 6 credit hours during the fall, and then take the plunge whenever I can get the cheap tuition.
sbonomo
Footballguy
what the heck are you thinking????? there is no easy way to do this. You go to college to learn the basics for what will turn into a career later in life. You want to take a short cut on your foundation? Nobody can be this stupid right? Economics is a terrible choice for you. Given your track record I would put the handicap on you finishing the first degree at 10:1 and a masters at 100:1. You like betting right? I think you get the point. Take the time now and get either a Finance or Accounting degree. Actually before you sign up for anything figure out what you want to do in life for a career. Why would you get an Econ degree if you don't know what you want to do with it. At some point you have to grow up and act like an adult if you want to be compensated and treated like one.
sho nuff
Footballguy
There are a ton of different kinds of accounting jobs. Tax, Audit, Acct. department....not all of it is just boring crunching numbers or having busy seasons.
Dude, I'm getting old! I can take 25 classes over 2 years to get a Bachelors in Economics or 30 - 34 classes over 2.5 - 3 years for a Bachelors in Accounting / Finance.
Luckily for me, there's a broad overlap of classes I can take before I go degree specific but I'm just getting old, man.
I've seen the opportunities that have opened up as far as jobs go with just my Associates, a Bachelors will go much further.
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sbonomo
Footballguy
What job do you want to do with an economics degree? You can sell insurance, get into an entry level position at a bank or maybe sales somewhere? You can get those jobs with administration or marketing degree as well. Spend the time and give yourself a marketable skill where you will be able to build a great resume with a skill set that opens many other doors. What do I know, I was only making 150K when I was your age.
Another alternative would be a Communications degree which I can also have in about another 70 credit hours.
The only downfall there is that I won't be able to easily work backwards to get my MBA since there's no business relationship there.
I already worked at a bank on the retail side of things and hated it. I was a "lead" but selling people savings account and other nonsense they didn't need was gruesome and totally not me at all.
Vanilla Guerrilla
Footballguy
I originally planned on majoring in econ. Switched my major to Accounting because the college was a lot better and I had the grades to get in; also the degree gave better options after graduating. When I was taking my classes there was a 4 class difference between Finance and Accounting, huge course overlap.
Finance can be boring also. Budgets and made up numbers versus debits and credits for accounting.
Low level econ classes were easy and fun. My friends are surprised that I had to use calculus in a couple of the higher level econ classes I took.
On the Accounting only being 4 months per year hard work. It depends where you work and what you do. Taxes, that may be more the case. Most of my friends went into Audit. They were busy all the time when they were at the larger firms, and counting down until they got an outside offer.
Finance can be boring also. Budgets and made up numbers versus debits and credits for accounting.
Low level econ classes were easy and fun. My friends are surprised that I had to use calculus in a couple of the higher level econ classes I took.
On the Accounting only being 4 months per year hard work. It depends where you work and what you do. Taxes, that may be more the case. Most of my friends went into Audit. They were busy all the time when they were at the larger firms, and counting down until they got an outside offer.
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I'm in Palm Bay with my parents right now. My original plan was to use part of the student loan money to rent an apartment in Clearwater but I decided that was really shortsighted.
The new plan is to take online courses at the moment to get some momentum going towards my degree.
Yes, I plan on going back to work. I haven't looked to see what's available but I'm the kind of guy who will sit down for 3 hours and send my resume to 50 different businesses.
Unemployment ran out last month and I'm living off savings / gambling money right now.
Quez
Footballguy
sbonomo
Footballguy
You don't even know what banking is....sigh....Set your sights a bit higher than a lead teller or CSR.
I'm in Florida to stay, my plan is to move to whichever city my college of choice ends up being once I can officially qualify for in-state tuition (St Pete (Clearwater since it's less ####ty), Ft Myers, or Boca Raton). But I'd say until Spring classes begin, I'm going to be here in Palm Bay. Unless I don't qualify for in-state tuition in which case I'll take another semester of online courses and keep plugging along.
My parents bought this house back in December of last year but we just recently moved here. I'm going to try and hustle the schools into giving me the cheaper tuition for this upcoming Spring semester.
Interesting take here, I appreciate you taking the time to give me some feedback. I've always liked accounting because there's always a cut and dry solution. We took in this much, we sent out this much. No guesswork besides how much of Accounts Receivable we may or may not ever see back. I like the idea of sitting in an office with a folder full of invoices, making sure that everything added up and that what we are supposed to have... we actually have.
Dealing with budgets sounds a little bit easier than accounting, to be completely honest, I assume the accountants make more money for exactly that reason. Budget surplus and you're a boss, budget deficit and you're out of a job.
Economics is interesting to me because I've always liked the stock mark, commodity prices, etc. Knowing what's in demand, why it's in demand, and all that jazz is fairly interesting to me. Mainly because it's information I can use to better myself. If I believe a certain industry is going to do well over the next 5 years, I can personally invest my money on hard fact and theory. With accounting, I could obviously run the books for my own company and with finance budget my own company but it isn't quite the same as what I think I could accomplish with economics.
Ha, you're most definitely right. After 2-months I was over the job, I was a lead CSR in a bank inside a grocery store. Most of the time I was the only member of staff who was on their feet standing. Literally, the banker was in his office, my boss was in his office, the other lead got a chair, and I'm just standing there.
If I ever go into retail banking (and god do I hope I don't), I would have to be a banker.
I should have taken the job as Assistant Manager at the predatory loan place, tbh. The entire retail banking industry is collapsing, imo. There's really no need for a physical bank nowadays, the new ATM machines do all the heavy lifting for you.
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East Coast Bias
Footballguy
I believe it's the same as on campus:
USFP:
In-State: $193.70 / Out-of-State: $557.52
FGCU:
In-State: $203.94 / Out-of-State: $838.73
FAU:
In-State: $201.29 / Out-of-State: $719.84
Quez
Footballguy
That is insane that online courses from a state school are that expensive. School prices should be going down with all these distant learning offerings. Yet, they are going up at record rates. The education system is a bubble that will likely end with a Hillary bail-in. Like relieving student debt. You may want to look into taking the courses you need at a cc at a cheaper rate, just verify they will transfer.
Damnit, you're right! I'm going back to Baker College for $251 a credit hour. I can take twice as many classes and expedite the entire process.
