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Finishing up my junior year for Finance. I hate my school and I hate Finance. I just dis-enrolled myself from college halfway through the semester.
It's my life, I'm only going to do things that I like and want to do. So I'll try again at a different college and with a history major next semester. No Regrets.
Deputy Kovacs
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10/10/2013 at 19:59 |
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But.. Finance can supply cars? I'm a finance major. Just get a game plan of working your balls off until you're 40-45 at the most, then retire as a gentleman driver for Aston Martin.
GhostZ
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10/10/2013 at 20:02 |
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I bet a Finance/Economics/Business student could probably sell drugs pretty damn well.
Good luck at the new college, hopefully you figure out exactly where you want to be.
Volvosaurus-Rex
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10/10/2013 at 20:02 |
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You'll be regretting that history degree...
VW Fan Boy
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:02 |
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A word of advice from somebody who switched majors repeatedly and struggled to find direction...AND ended up in telecom after studying finance.... Work through it. Even if you have ADD like myself sometimes you have to work through it and just not let the other BS get to you...
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Volvosaurus-Rex
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:02 |
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You'll be regretting that history degree...
Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:03 |
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You totally didnt just scare a freshmen with a double major one of them being finance. Nope not at all...
Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:09 |
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Do yourself a favor and at least minor in business, that way you can at least feed yourself after you graduate.
Pockets
> Deputy Kovacs
10/10/2013 at 20:13 |
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While there's something to be said for using cash to pay for lifestyle, there's very little to be said for the "work-to-death, because then it will all get better later" rubbish.
Leadbull
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10/10/2013 at 20:15 |
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Good luck. I know I sure as crap wouldn't enjoy spending my life in finance.
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> Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
10/10/2013 at 20:15 |
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ahhh, but I already have an A.S. in business. My goal is law school and just need any Bachelors degree + LSATs to get in. That's why I intend to do the major I want to do at this point in my life.
6cyl
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10/10/2013 at 20:21 |
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As someone who transferred a few times take a week or two and take a looks at your GPA at your current university. If it is good or decent consider staying at your current school and just changing to a management major or something. I transferred at the same stage you are at and it really, really sucked. It basically added a year to my education, it erased (from my GPA) all the easy grades I got early on, I had to fight my school for to get each credit to transfer and in the end they still wouldn't take all of them. Just take some time and think it over.
If the school you are in really sucks get out but consider it might just be the program you are in or even just a few of the teachers you have had that are ruining it for you.
deadpedal
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10/10/2013 at 20:22 |
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-amateur move yo.
Ha. Seriously, good on you.
ChemicalCutthroat
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10/10/2013 at 20:30 |
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"All I do is work all the time, I'm wasting my life, I should be enjoying myself."
"All I do is goof around all the time, I'm wasting my life, I should go be productive."
Man I hate that cycle.
Go do what you WANT to do. Too many people don't.
Dunnik
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10/10/2013 at 20:32 |
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If your goal is to become a lawyer, then why get your bachelor's in finance anyway?
History is a much better choice, since history studies everything, including the development of laws and government over time. Law is all about precedent, and what is history if not that?
Politics (I refuse to call it Political Science, because it sure 'aint no science) might be another good choice. Anything that studies the human condition, like Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology wouldn't be bad choices either.
Any one of the above would make you a better lawyer in the end that if you had stayed doing finance.
Tom McParland
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10/10/2013 at 20:36 |
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Best of luck to you...I hope you find the right path to make you happy.
Frank Grimes
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10/10/2013 at 20:37 |
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> Dunnik
10/10/2013 at 20:38 |
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I originally wanted to be a corporate lawyer but now I'm throwing that out the window. I liked your political science commentary lol!
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> Frank Grimes
10/10/2013 at 20:39 |
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Totally saving that little gem!
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Dunnik
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:43 |
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Even for a corporate lawyer, a finance undergraduate isn't very useful.
You just need to know the law as it pertains to businesses. You only need to know the basics about business and corporations (which a study of history and common sense could provide). You do not need to know how to balance a company's books, or how to grow its revenue. Return on Investment, capitalization, Revenue per Transaction - you don't need to know any of that, and that is what finance teaches.
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Frank Grimes
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10/10/2013 at 20:47 |
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Good it makes me happy, because It took a long time to find it again.
PlayerWAN
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 20:52 |
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-Amateur, stop mething around...
MoparKetchup
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10/10/2013 at 21:09 |
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You sir, Mr. Future Attorney, take the chance... You will not regret it. I started out with a Major in Finance and finished with a Major in Liberal Arts. I went back to Puerto Rico to study in a local law school and now I finally found my calling: Immigration Law. I've been doing pro bono cases to polish my knowledge and this January I'll be studying an LLM in International and Comparative Law in St. Mary's University in San Antonio Texas.
Since the moment I made the change, I had no regrets.
¡Tú también puedes hacerlo!
The Transporter
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10/10/2013 at 21:13 |
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Your feels, I feel them, too. I came down here to Wilmington, NC for the sole purpose of attending the film school here at UNCW and, hopefully, getting into the film industry down here. I even purchased a house and everything. Little did I realize, but after Frank Capra Jr. passed away, the whole film program inverted itself. They've virtually abandoned teaching practical skills in favor of academic film criticism, which prepares you for a long and fruitful career as a starving artist. I have lived through too much to tell an academic that his shit doesn't stink so I can get a piece of paper that says I have no marketable skills.
It's been the most frustrating thing bouncing around from degree program to degree program trying to find one that fits me. I've finally done it, but at this point it hardly seems worth it. At least you have the luxury of not being tied down by a mortgage.
YSI-what can brown do for you
> Frank Grimes
10/10/2013 at 21:19 |
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And now I feel good. Big ol' middle finger to becoming a pharmacist.
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YSI-what can brown do for you
> -Amateur
10/10/2013 at 21:21 |
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Do what you gotta do. Never do something you despise.
Honestly, I have done almost the same thing. I was 2 years into Pharmacy, realized I didn't want to do it(for a year at that point) and just quit. Engineering fo' life! Turns out, it will end up taking 6 years anyway(the lenght of the Pharm. D program).
DasHoon
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10/10/2013 at 21:27 |
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I said fuck it after one and a half years in Mechanical Engineering, went to the military for four years and mostly loved it. After my enlistment, I returned for another three semesters of Chemical Engineering, and said fuck it again. I'm now working on returning to the military in a different career field.
If I ever go back, it'll be online and doing quantitative economics and poly sci. I have no plan to actually use that degree; the subject interests me and is not engineering (which I don't have the knack for, to my chagrin).
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> MoparKetchup
10/10/2013 at 21:29 |
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I applaud you! This definitely gives me a confidence boost that I am doing the right thing. Thank you so much!!!
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> DasHoon
10/10/2013 at 21:32 |
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Hey, I did the military right out of high school. 4 years of the Marine Corps. I originally wanted to make a career out of it but had a change of heart halfway through my enlistment. I miss it from time to time.
MountainCommand
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10/10/2013 at 21:47 |
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Man i agree with your mentality. Do something you want to do. Especially if im paying for it. And college aint cheap. Im in my junior year, trying to finish up to get my Associates in criminal justice. I absolutely love these classes, but becoming a cop or any federal officer just doesnt feel right. And now i have this urge to look into computer science. But im also liking these psychology classes im taking just for the hellofit. i just dont know.
No regrets is right. And your not the only one unsure of this college stuff. I hate how we have to make these choices in a matter of ~4 years that can change the course of the rest of our lives. Why are these implications so challenging.
timateo81
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10/10/2013 at 22:01 |
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nobody knows what they want to do really. where I'm at right now it's so far from where I was 10 years ago. Think of a degree as an invitation to a party - it just gets you in the four. what you do at the party will determine where you go next.
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6cyl
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10/11/2013 at 23:29 |
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