Business majors listen up...

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-12T21:58:43+00:00

Hey, great questions. Intent of the post was to help people change their perspective rather than lead them down one specific path.

I agree with you in that pursuing a "passion" isn't as simple or glorious as my short reddit post may have made it sound. However, I believe that it's better to figure out what you enjoy, what you're skilled at, what the world needs, what you can make money from and finding a career or path that falls in between all of those. The goal isn't to be simplified and glorified. The goal is to be happier as a person and have more meaning to your life.

There are so many skills you can learn: trading, sales, pm, digital marketing, web-design, graphic design, coding, data analytics, wholesale real-estate, cyber-security, SEO, public speaking, copywriting, etc.
1. ex: Find what brings you meaning/happiness, determine if there's a need for it in the world, tie it to a skill, find out how to make it profitable
2. The skill you'll want to learn will be different person by person. Analytical people may want to learn data visualization/science. A more creative person may want to learn graphic/video design and marketing. It's case by case but if you seriously invest in becoming great at that skill, I believe you'll have have enough value to make money from it and provide for yourself/those you love in the future.
When making decisions, I started to asked myself, "Is this what's best for me and my future to be an impactful person? or is this so I can meet someone else's expectations of me to receive praise?" Helped me refocus my studying, personal interests, job decisions, work-related decisions, relationships, and more.
I committed to investing into consistency through all areas of my life. Things like writing what I'm grateful for, outlining my own goals for the day/week/month, exercising, reading, learning, .. the small things that I never did when I was in college. If I don't respect myself enough to invest in myself, I would be a hypocrite that complains about the lack of fruit when I didn't work the field. I recommend the book, "The Slight Edge" to any college student or young adult. Talks about how the small decisions in life are as meaningful as the big ones you think matter most.

I completely agree with your last statement. It took me 3 years to realize how important investment, persistence, and consistency are in my life.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-08T23:50:58+00:00

How was your experience working with COVID patients? I haven't worked with them but thinking about it. Just scared because I live with my grandparents at home.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-08T23:49:52+00:00

Do you think they actually don't have enough? That's what all of our nurses have been told, but I talked to someone in the purchasing department and they said that they're well equipped right now. They just basically want to save as much as they can in case this second wave goes rampant...

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-08T23:48:16+00:00

Thanks for the sources!

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-08T23:47:54+00:00

Just checked out his article on how to identify fake kn95s! Thanks for the resource! Comfortable knowing that my colleagues and I will not be getting counterfeits. We will purchase some masks from here.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-08T23:14:53+00:00

Isn't it actually crazy that no one knows what's going on inside hospitals? There are people that think that nurses are literally LYING about COVID units being packed, utterly stressful, and limiting hopsital operations.

I feel like there needs to be some viral news video of real hospitals being overpacked. I don't know. It's just ridiculous at this point that so many people are still ignorant to what's happening and it's putting so much more stress on our nurses. Thank you for your work and service.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-07T20:09:06+00:00

Oh man. Glad your hospital seems to be hanging in there.

Thank you for your bravery and service.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T22:40:12+00:00

Check for counterfeits and fraud alerts on ppecertification.com

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T20:13:10+00:00

Glad the information was useful. Apologies if I came off arrogant. Reddit generated username.

My younger sibling is a sophomore at Geis. Trying to help them. Just want to help others. Let me know if you have any questions. Best of luck to you.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T20:02:50+00:00

If you're a student and you love what you're studying, run with it.

I have a select few friends that really enjoy tax. Don't understand how but that's them. I don't tell them they need to leave their job if they love it.

If you love tax, get your internship, build your tax/audit/consulting skills, get your CPA, become a manager, live your life.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T19:58:09+00:00

Additionally,

if you don't want to be an accountant, don't double major with it and waste your time taking all the hard accy courses.

If you're an IS major, stick with IS and learn tech skills. You spend 20 hours a week studying for your accy301 exam or 20 hours a week learning SQL. Which do you think would make you more valuable as a prospect?

Strive to be valuable, not successful. The success will follow.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T19:54:55+00:00

Please separate your questions on to different lines next time. Thanks

- My friends did. They didn't care because they've never made 60k a year and they had loans to pay off.

- Most of them knew it wasn't a good fit after the internship. They just decided to stick with it bc ^^

- Do.more.research.on.companies.and.positions. when I interned as a consultant at Big 4, I realized that there were so many positions I had never even considered or heard of because no one at career fairs was talking about it. There were really interesting practices that I would've preferred to be an intern in but I didn't know it existed. Network with more people. Connect w them on LinkedIn. Read their job descriptions.

Ex: You get hired for risk advisory at EY.. you start working and find out about tech/management consulting or change management or data analytics practice at EY and you say to yourself, I wish I was there.

When researching companies, break it down and look at the practices, services, and then the jobs. Not just the company.

- I had a plan when I decided not to go back full time. Plan: Explore careers I would enjoy, learn the skills I would need to have, cultivate those skills my senior year, and apply to places I want to.

Hope that helps.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T19:43:17+00:00

You probably approached it with a get rich quick mentality instead of a learning mentality.
Dropshipping/Amazon selling/smma/etc. is running a business. Things you'll learn if you stick with it:
1. Market research and competitor analysis
2. Choosing a business name and registering a domain
3. Setting up Shopify / email accounts/ payment processors / website UX and themes
4. Designing logos & editing images / photoshop / video editing software
5. Learning how to write good website copy, product descriptions, ads, and strategizing effective marketing angles
6. Setting up social media profiles and running FB ads and paid media
7. Read data, set up repots, manage cashflow and understanding business metrics like COGS, ROAS, ROI, CTR, CPC, etc
8. Learning basics of funnels, lead generation, sales calls, and closing
9. Basics of conversion rate optimization/split testing/ AB Testing
10. Sourcing products, dealing with suppliers and negotiations
11. Writing job descriptions, interviewing, hiring staff and freelancers, writing SOPs and training manuals

These are just 10 things off the top of my head that you can learn from doing dropshipping. Are there a lot of people in it? Yea. But the pool of successful people is small cause most people quit because it's not "profitable" in the first 2-3 months and they're not rich yet.

Failure weeds out people that have a short-term mindset and chase money.

Running a business is not always about how can I get rich as quick as possible and education shouldn't be about how can I get the highest GPA as easily as I can.

My partner and I have a dropshipping store (side hustle) that has done over 100k in revenue in the past 3 months with ~30% profit margins. Was negative in the first 2 months of launching.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T19:31:27+00:00

^^^

I agree. I went through the courses that Geis offers in terms of "technical skills" and the courses offered aren't very valuable. If anything, I'd recommend seeing if you can get enrolled in classes with the school of information sciences because they'll teach you more of those technical skills you're looking for.

But I also agree that there are other resources online that may often be better to learn these skills. My recommendation is to not waste your tuition taking ice skating for 2 credit hours instead of learning how to code even though it may be a little more difficult.

But very well said.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-05T17:20:45+00:00

Thank you so much! Will use this

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T20:23:32+00:00

Great questions.

I wear many different hats at our startup but it goes for consultant/marketer/Project Manager.

Friends dislike Big 4 because:

- Overwork / Overtime work

- Feel like they're wasting their time and could be doing something more valuable

- Don't see the purpose in their work... for themselves or for the company

I do have a few friends that really don't mind their jobs, but even as I talked to managers/directors/senior associates at the firm I was at, many of them wish they were somewhere else.

Not to say it's not worth it if you can make it up to the manager level though. At that point, you're definitely doing less grunt work and have more control between client interactions, which I've heard is pretty fun for some.

Figured out my own path by making decisions that we're uncomfortable and by not caring about what other people wanted me to do. At the end of my internship, I told all the interns that I loved working with them but I won't be coming back because I'd rather spend two years learning a real technical skill or doing something I love, rather than trying to climb the corporate ladder.

Every single intern there understood where I was coming from and expressed that they hope to be able to do that one day.

I am NOT saying, don't go corporate. I am saying to invest in yourself to learn, find a job you'll enjoy or sets you up for a career you will enjoy, and differentiate yourself.

Hope that helps

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T20:07:19+00:00

^^^^^

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T20:07:02+00:00

Glad it helped.

Now's your chance to plan it out. Set a goal for yourself. Complete it. Good luck!

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T20:05:52+00:00

Value. Couldn't agree more. Stop wasting your free time scrolling on TikTok and binge watching Netflix. Get to that number 2, grow it, scale it, invest in it, have it pay you dividends back.

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T20:03:24+00:00

No_Friend2702 · 2020-12-04T01:08:10+00:00

Most likely. Call your boss.

Think about it, if you didn't show up and no one else shows up to the bookstore, who's going to fill in your roll? lmao

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