I recently started a graduate program in a different state and am feeling pretty lonely. I don’t know anyone here as all of my friends are back home and I have no family here. I’m very shy, and I have a hard time started random conversations with people I don’t really know.
Every single subreddit I’ve visited complains about their field of work and how bad the pay is.
Accounting? Oh well low pay, AI threatening to replace it, etc.
Nursing? Solid pay, brutal work environment, have to be fine with blood etc
Trades? Awful for your body, brutal hours, bad work environment
Finance? If you don’t go to a target school don’t bother
The list goes on. It makes it impossible to choose a career path.
I graduated a few years back and work in finance. My firm has reduced our hiring to basically 0 and I’m watching other firms do so as well. Most people I see coming out of college are working minimum wage jobs. If they do find one, they are usually laid off fairly quickly.
This economy sucks and I feel bad for college students.
Idk if I can put up with this industry
Healthcare absolutely sucks, probably the worst decision of my life. Idk how anyone does this to be honest.
How do I switch careers? This job and degree traps you imo if you ever want to leave.
Do I go back to school?
Are other business roles open to grads with accounting degrees? Marketing, Business analytics, HR?
Ik the edges are rough, but I’ll take it!
Man I wish I just listened to myself earlier. Accounting is bs
Wow these new models are terrible
I did not have a business degree prior to my masters of accounting program. I now need 36 total business credits on top of 33 accounting credits. My masters program gets me about 24 accounting credits. I have 15 business credits, but I’d need to take another 7 classes on top of my masters program to get the 36 business credits.
So what do I do? Commit to this masters program, graduate, and then enroll in 7 more classes to meet their business requirement? I mean this is insane.
My friend went through the exam same masters program with no prior background and was able to become a CPA before these new rules came out.
Is it even worth pursuing this field? I mean for the amount of schooling I’d have to do just to qualify I could just do something else.
It seems insanely difficult to learn those topics in 6 weeks
For background, I work in logistics at a ltl facility. I am a new dock supervisor. I had “training” but it was the worst excuse of training I’ve ever seen. They made me sit on the sidelines and watch. I have 0 idea what they did on the software systems or how they run the shift. Tomorrow they are throwing me straight into the fire and I have no idea what to do. I never got a chance to learn. We are always super busy so they just brushed me off. I asked to be more hands on and never got the opportunity.
I’m genuinely really worried because idk what to do and I don’t want to fuck up our entire operations
For background, I work in logistics at a ltl facility. I am a new dock supervisor. I had “training” but it was the worst excuse of training I’ve ever seen. They made me sit on the sidelines and watch. I have 0 idea what they did on the software systems or how they run the shift. Tomorrow they are throwing me straight into the fire and I have no idea what to do. I never got a chance to learn. We are always super busy so they just brushed me off. I asked to be more hands on and never got the opportunity.
I’m genuinely really worried because idk what to do and I don’t want to fuck up our entire operations.
They claim they only read a handful of them. AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition. A lot of people have impressive resumes, and it’s honestly impossible for them to choose.
At this point your resume is probably fine. Job sites like LinkedIn have killed recruitment. I guarantee your odds of getting a job would’ve been way higher if places accepted resumes in person.
I’m in my early twenties, and I currently have about 20-30k in my HYSA at 3.8%. I have maxed my Roth IRA this year, and last. I also have started funding my brokerage as well where I have about 10k now. Is it a waste to having that much in my HYSA? Should I invest half of it? I no longer contribute to my HYSA, and put it straight to my brokerage.
My main concern is due to the current job market, I’m afraid if I somehow lose my job that I will need the money potentially. But I think investing that money will play out than letting it sit.