I have made a decision.

[Tobin S.]

If you've been following the saga of the Tobster you will know that I've been kicking around ideas about school and jobs. I had a choice to make. Stay in school an extra year and take accounting classes as a part of my degree in business administration-OR-get the bachelor's degree in business administration without the extra concentration of study and graduate a year sooner.

Accountants make more money than managers in the long run, but I figured I'd get that degree and get a job in business somewhere and GET THE HELL OUT OF THAT BACK-BREAKING BALL-BUSTING TRUCK that I currently drive for a living. While I'm working in my new job in management, I can stay in school and do the accounting courses that are required to sit for the CPA exam in my state. Two years of related job experience are also required to sit for the CPA exam here, so I'll be killing two birds with one stone by doing things the way I've decided to do them.

I'm going to get back to my homework. Just thought I'd pop in and say hi. I'll check back in later on.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. sounds like a plan, Tobin!

now that you have planned your work, all you have to do is work your plan!

Go get 'em!

Translation: get off DU and get back to your homework

[rocktivity]

2. I thought my sister was nuts for getting her bachelor's in science and her masters in education

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when she had intended to become a science teacher all along. But now she's a middle school principal, so what do I know?


rocktivity

[bigwillq]

3. Good Luck!

All the best!

[elleng]

4. Sounds like a PLAN, Tobin!!!

[Ptah]

5. Looks like a sound decision, Tobin.

What do you hope to manage? A service industry? Manufacturing?

Good luck to you.

[Tobin S.]

13. I have over 16 years experience as a trucker

so what I'll probably do is try to get a white collar job in a trucking company. I've seen several examples of drivers turning into managers in my years in trucking, and that's probably the route I'll try to take to get my desk jockey career under way.

[lastlib]

6. Good Luck, sir!

Accounting always made my eyes bug out! I admire anybody who can do it well.

[Tobin S.]

14. Accounting is tough

A lot of people think it's just math, but there's a lot more to it than that. I asked a CPA at my school about a career in accounting and he said that judging by the pass/fail results of the CPA exam, it's one of the most difficult professional certifications to obtain. Only 30% pass.

Business administration is also not an easy degree to obtain, although a lot of people seem to think it is. There's more math involved than in most liberal arts degrees and I've seen a math course that I took for my degree lose half of its students because they dropped the course because it was too difficult. I think several of the remaining students either flunked or got a 'D' which is not good enough to get credit toward a degree for a course at my school.

[lastlib]

16. I studied for the Chartered Financial Analyst exams...

...when I opened the textbook on derivatives, I thought they'd sent me a particle physics book by mistake. They didnt. I learned the Greek alphabet when I was six--judging by that book, they've added letters to it........I only passed one of the three exams, and I aced two semesters of college calculus! The math definitely has fangs! (The one exam I passed, I had to take twice--the first time, it was accounting that shot me down.)

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. EXCELLENT decision!!!

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[Demoiselle]

8. What MFM said. Congratulations!

[rurallib]

9. Good luck - hope that first job is out there somewhere

and pays enough to pay the bills.

[Locut0s]

10. Good decision Tobin...

Feels good to finally make the decision doesn't it? At least for me I find that just making a decision can relieve a lot of stress and feel great. Having a solid plan and sticking to it is often more important than making the perfect choices. I'm sure you will do great with the choice you made! Good luck!

[Tobin S.]

15. Thank you

I have my schedule planned for the rest of my college career. It's just a matter of doing the work now. As long as I can get enrolled in all the classes when I want to, which I don't think will be a problem, I'll graduate in December of 2014.

[Denninmi]

11. That's very true.

There isn't a time limit, you can go back and pick up when you need to.

Sounds like a good decision.

[femmocrat]

12. Best wishes to you, Tobin!

Sounds like a great solution!

[DebJ]

17. Good luck and best wishes!

[Wounded Bear]

18. Congrats on coming to a decision...

Best of luck on the outcome!

[hermetic]

19. That is great!

Wishing you the very best.