/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.22704130]

Are business degrees a scam?

[Anonymous No.22704721]

Yes

[Anonymous No.22704741]

Yes

Imagine thinking you can learn how to start a business. If it were that easy everyone would be rich.

[Anonymous No.22704747]

Colleges raising the tuition is anti white. The only people who can get student loans are minorities, while moderately rich white families cant afford it. College tuition is going to keep rising till 90% of students are taking out a loan

[Anonymous No.22704759]

Absolutely

[Anonymous No.22704774]

Yes, but not the way you think. You can use this degree to get jobs you are completely unqualified for.

[Anonymous No.22704786]

>>22704774
>>22704759
>>22704747
>>22704741
>>22704721
>>22704130
coping retards that could never dream of getting into even a t50

[Anonymous No.22704802]

1. buy something
2. sell it for more than you bought it for.
there, i just saved you a shit load of time and money

[Anonymous No.22704825]

>>22704130
My brother got a business degree from UNC then went to law school in Delaware and now has a nice job as a VP of a regional bank in Florida. Cant say its all bad, depends on what you do with it.

[Anonymous No.22704832]

>>22704786
Lol faggot I have a business degree and I do quite well and it started getting jobs I wasn't fucking qualified for.

[Anonymous No.22704840]

>>22704130
A regular business administration degree? You know, it's not going to knock anyone's socks off. It's not going to give you skills that make you instantly employable. But, relative to most other degrees, it's not that bad. People who go to college apathetically, not really caring about what they study, and too timid to choose a specific career, should major in business administration rather than things like psychology, poly sci, etc. I definitely respect a business major more than a humanities major.

But there's more than just business administration degrees within the field of business. There's finance, accounting, management, arguably economics as well. Accounting is the bread and butter of a business education, and I really respect it. Where accounting gets you skills for when you're right out of graduation, finance will help you with higher-level jobs. Economics seems to pay off well later on in your career as well.

To anyone uncertain about what business degree they want, I suggest doing a business degree for your associates so that you'll get a feel for everything. Then you can choose a specific business degree for your bachelors.

[Anonymous No.22704854]

>>22704130
Economics accounting/finance, no.
Others yeah possibly

[Anonymous No.22704865]

>>22704130
University is both a total scam and not a scam at all. Much like a sports car is definitely not worth it and totally worth it. Do you want to be accepted by people in the upper middle class and above? You need a degree. Will you learn anything useful? Outside of a few majors, no. Retarded middle and lower class people thought university gave you the knowledge you needed to climb the class ladder, but really, a degree is just a certification one needs to remain in the upper classes.

[Anonymous No.22704886]

>>22704130
They can be. Depends which one you get and which school you go to. I now work in “big data” as an engineer but I got a Business Analytics degree. It sorta translates but not really. My situation probably isn’t very common. If you do go to business school and you don’t want to learn to code on the side, you should go into corporate finance and even then you only have about 10 more years of avoiding programming.

[Anonymous No.22704925]

>>22704865
I think you're underestimating just how big of a black hole the entry-level, no-education pit of despair is. It takes a lot of cunning to work your way up from wageslave-tier jobs. Education, done right, is the easiest way to boost your income level, and income is vital to building wealth. The issue is that most people who go to college are stupid about it. You can go to a cheap local school for practically free, and study something that'll make you at least $50k starting. Instead, they go into debt for the honor of working towards a degree in a subject they clearly aren't interested in, and have no job prospects.

[Anonymous No.22704954]

>>22704130
They're there for networking and getting internships at huge companies so you get a foot on the ladder. It'll also prepare you for many actual use cases in corporate life.

[Anonymous No.22705066]

>>22704954
The concept of an internship disgusts me to the core.

[Anonymous No.22705140]

>>22705066
Usually you're paid. And it really helps because when you graduate if you've say interned with them 2 years in a row they're like
>This guy knows all our procedures and doesn't need additional training
>We already know they can do the work
>We know you personally and we like you
And you can get a job much easier.

[Anonymous No.22705164]

Should I switch my degree to financial planning?

[Anonymous No.22705217]

>>22704130
Depends on the school. If it's from Harvard or Stanford or something it's still a scam education wise but starting salaries after graduation are around 150-200k.

You'll probably get a good job on Wall Street out of it and lots of networking opportunities with other rich kids.

[Anonymous No.22705330]

>>22705140
Most internships are NOT paid

[Anonymous No.22705358]

>>22704747
>The only people who can get student loans are minorities

Not even remotely true, and even if it were, having access to the most predatory legal loans in America is not an advantage in life.

[Anonymous No.22705382]

>>22704747
t.retard that couldn't get a scholarship

Just get good grades and don't be a retard

[Anonymous No.22705399]

Literally refused to go to college unless my parents paid for all of it. You’re a dumbass if you think indenting yourself that much for any reason is worth it.

[Anonymous No.22705412]

>education bad
Look at all the anti-excellence ITT. Why am I wasting my time with you bottom feeders?

Absolute state of /biz/

[Anonymous No.22705451]

>>22705330
Extremely false if you go STEM or business. Get with the times grandpa

[Anonymous No.22705547]

I own my own company and found my associates in business management useful.

Your mileage may vary.

[Anonymous No.22705564]

>>22705217
This desu senpai. If it's not a top school, it isn't worth much unless you plan to go into the mediocre accounting jobs.

[Anonymous No.22705571]

>>22704130
No
Without a degree I would have never cultivated my IQ enough to understand AMPL and sell near the top

[Anonymous No.22705721]

>go to apply for a job
>realize I already applied with a different resume to a different job at the same place and I don't want to lie to them and get in trouble

[Anonymous No.22705764]

>>22705399
>my mom stole 12,000 dollars from my college fund
>claimed that it was used to pay for my college
>know for a fact she received thousands of dollars from the government in tax credits because I was an adult dependent while in college

All I can say is that it's a good thing the hospital fucked up and missed my dad's cancer so he died. The ensuing lawsuit payout paid for my university. Otherwise my mom probably would have made me take out loans and 17 year old me was a cuck aiming to please my mommy so I would've done it.

[Anonymous No.22705808]

>>22704130
kek, hadn't seen that Stonetoss before, clever

[Anonymous No.22706031]

>>22705764

WTF I hope you're never speaking to your mom again. I thought my parents had bad judgement because I had about $20,000 in my college fund while they spent $50,000 on tennis lessons and tennis-related expenses when I was a child. I stopped playing tennis shortly after I graduated high school.

[Anonymous No.22706160]

>>22706031
Kek she also told me not to get a job in college (I found out this was because of the tax credit thing) after I told her I was going to save 10k for a decent used car (she had hounded me to get a summer job for years until that point when she backtracked because her tax credit gibs were threatened) then she got my grandad to give up his car and THEN she gave the spare keys to my brother, who drove it into the ground (he literally crashed it) even though he already had a van.

It's funny because she makes 6 figures working from home and can barely even use the internet correctly but because she's basically a manager they can't fire her (but she still pretends she's an oppressed worker under the thumb of upper management and got pissy when the tax law changes took away some of her write offs).

The things I would do to her if I could get away with it, all that lost time trying to climb back from zero.

[Anonymous No.22706239]

>>22704130
Yeah.
If you wanna learn how to start a business just google that shit lol why do you need to pay for that knowledge?