[Ballers]

Right up my alley Ballers!

For accounting, I would recommend starting out at a public accounting firm, preferably in auditing. You get SO much experience working with different types of businesses. If auditing isn't your thing, you will at least have the potential to learn a lot about the different fields of business as well as make several new contacts. Auditing is hard to do in school though, so I would make sure to apply for a summer auditing internship at a firm. They pay very, very well. During the year I would recommend trying to work a semester doing tax or bookkeeping to gain good experience. One thing to note with accounting: Career services always tells you to start applying for summer jobs, or full time jobs early in the school year. This especially goes for accounting, where most of the firms do all of their hiring in August or September.

If you are into finance, you could shoot for areas like investments, insurance, or banking. Where I am from most people will shoot for those three, but it's not uncommon to have a career in corporate finance. I did an internship for AFLAC when I was in school in the sales field. I came to find out that insurance wasn't for me, but I did pretty well at it. If you like to sell, that is your field. There are a lot of banks that offer jobs/internships for college students. Whether or not you are into banking, I would recommend trying something in that area just because of how much you learn and how much business knowledge you will gain in that field. And then you get into the investing side of finance. A friend of mine that I worked with on an internship works at a Wealth Management company, and he loves it.

Let me know any questions you may have in these areas. Regardless of what field you choose, I wish you all the best. My advice to you is when you do go back to school, find an internship in the field of work that you choose to do. You will gain valuable experience, and 80 - 90 percent of the time it will lead to a big job offer.

Thanks.

Just for an internship though, do they pay you for that while you are in school as well?