Who runs the world? Business majors, that's who. We have high goals and can't wait to be future bosses. I shamelessly admit to constantly shopping for dream apartments in the city on Zillow. We love our major and are excited to be successful one day. For now, though, we must struggle through, coffee-fueled with our blazers ready, because due to popular belief there are many struggles we face on a daily basis.
1. People assume your major is easy
These people have clearly never taken the foreign languages that are finance and accounting. There's nothing worse trying to multitask getting a job, being involved in multiple clubs, and maintaining a high GPA to have people tell you, "You have no reason to be stressed."
2. Finding. An. Internship.
Businesses want you to have previous experience...but isn't that the point of an internship? To gain experience? And what is this "unpaid intern" crap? I don't know man.
3. Your resume is never perfect
You could bring your resume to 15 different people and they will all edit it differently. Then you bring the same resume back a week later and somehow it's still wrong. At this point, you're better off writing "hire me" on the front and stapling $20 to it when applying.
4. Heels.
Besides the fact, they give you blisters and you look like a wounded baby deer trying to walk in them, heels are the devil. You feel like they could just break any moment, and you have to wear them because, let's be real, you don't feel very powerful in flats.
5. Just business clothes in general
It's a love/hate relationship. You feel like a boss but they aren't designed for comfort that's for sure. The words 'pantyhose' and 'trousers' make me cringe. No matter how many trips you take to Ann Taylor, you end up wearing the same blazer/skirt combo for every interview/group presentation.
6. Never being able to watch another commercial or see an ad without analyzing the company's strategy
What was their target market? I wonder how they segmented their market and if they used primary or secondary research. What other channels of promotion are they using?
7. All your social media accounts are private.
Nothing is scarier than the paranoia of your future employer seeing pictures on Facebook of you double fisting at the bar. You also use your middle name as a tool to hide from companies.
8. Thinking you understand the material on a test, then realizing the night before you have no idea
Just grab all the caffeine and sugary snacks in sight; it's going to be a long night of cramming.
9. People think you're just in it for the money
Money isn't your only motive, but it is a pretty big one. Other people think you are materialistic, but they aren't the ones with the huge starting salary. You actually enjoy what you do, a hefty signing bonus is just an extra perk.
10. Group projects are a equivalent to hell on earth for you
People don't show up to meeting planned the week before. No one knows how to format a simple powerpoint. One of your teammates clearly doesn't understand personal hygiene. In the end, you find yourself awake at 4 a.m. doing the entire thing and those ungrateful twats have the nerve to say at the end, "Great job everyone, we all did so good!"
11. There's that one person who will always one up you, and constantly brag about it
Oh, you got a 100 percent? They got a 105 percent, even though there was no extra credit offered. You got an internship for the summer? They started their own company and already have potential investors. You can't win.
12. You never really know what you're doing, but somehow manage to always BS your way through
I still don't fully understand supply and demand curves but somehow I got an A in Econ and it became my minor. The possibilities are endless if you can fake it until you make it.
