>Want to get a degree in Cybersecurity
>Little sister says, "Just go into Accounting. An accounting degree will stand a longer test of time than a degree in security. Cybersecurity itself is an oversaturated and highly competitive field, you'll have to do much more than you do with accounting"
Is she right?
Accounting will always be in demand, yes.
what do her feet smell like
If she is your older sister, listen to her. If she is your younger sister, do what you want.
Isn't accounting slowly dying? As far as I knoe cybersec has a massive shortage of workers that is expected to only grow.
Accounting is always on demand BUT depends on where you live. And if you live on the US, go for accounting, cybersecurity will not pay your student debt.
accounting and healthcare will always be in demand
Accountants finish at 5pm. All IT outside programming and resetting passwords or plugging in keyboards end up doing fucked hours.
Cybersecurity is a giant meme. Its productivity yield is super low, so I have no idea what is going to happen to it 10 years from now. But accounting is currently being automated out of existence.
I have never seen a cybersecurity position in any of the tech companies ive worked at. Plenty of accountants tho.
But i mean there are more options than your 2.
Cybersecurity as a base IT field is retarded. I dont give a shit what some stooge tells me is best practice if he barely understands the infrastructure he's looking after. You go into enterprise IT at any other point then transition into security later once you can actually talk the same language.
Do it if you find it interesting but you need to git gud at it and not be a typical jeet, but that's the same with any tech job.
isn't accounting easy to be gobbled up by saas platforms
DON'T GO INTO ACCOUNTING
Do get CS or related and then move into ERP/CRM development or maintenance, you will have accountants kissing your feet.
accounting isn't going anywhere.
Prepare to work for an MSP peddling security solutions that open more holes than they solve.
Ah yes, Java based management server with an SQL database backend that requires "agents" on everything it manages.
And every single component is more insecure than all the rest of the IT infrastructure in an org.
I live in USA.
I really want to do Cybersecurity, yet I fear I'll have a tough time finding a job, since I'll need to do a lot of shit from projects and passing Comp+ tests to even get viewed.
Accounting itself is a boring ass job to me, yet it's still in demand and I could find work quicker. I just hope I can find remote jobs with accounting because I don't like traveling
I think a better way would be to get a CS degree or that new fangled CSEE shit. Then take cyber security electives and pivot into hacking/computer forensics/malware stuff.
No, she's not right at all.
Accounting is one of the most easily automated fields, it's not future proof at all. It's already happening with far fewer accountants being needed per capita today due to software that makes keeping your own books easy. I own a company and I don't have an accountant.
Cybersecurity, on the other hand, will only get more and more relevant as society is more and more digitized. Where other professions would be lost to automation, automation only increases demand for cybersecurity because now those automatic systems need to be protected digitally.
>I own a company and I don't have an accountant.
retard
Why?
>Accounting
She means OnlyFans. That's what people mean when they say they're an accountant these days.
Accounting is pretty easy on small/midsize businesses. It only gets difficult when you are a gigajew big business and need to account for every expense using certain niche methods to maximize your tax write offs and have a bunch of debt/funding/stock
It's easy if you want to pay out the ass in taxes and not take advantage of various incentives.
kek. And then you get audited and you're totally fucked. The part people are forgetting about software "replacing" accountants is that there's plenty of laws you need to know VERY fucking well that are situational that your software can and will miss. You are probably both missing tons of money that an accountant would have caught and saved you (far beyond their salary) AND in violation of tons of laws that could really bite you in the ass if you get audited.
Takes about a week of reading tax code to figure it out. At that point you're talking about a tax professional and not an accountant though. Just read and Google, it's not that hard. All the laws are right there for you
>Woman has well reasoned argument that is not related to something trendy on tiktok
Doubt
Accounting will be in demand yeah. Cybersecurity seems like a meme degree to me but in general technology is a good profession
Higher education is a meme. Get trained in construction or carpentry or whatever. Earn enough to support your family. Get free exercise, tan and winter hardiness. Enjoy worker's protection. Enjoy unlimited pussy. Work from 7-3 and finish at 3. Think freely about anything you want. Take cybersecurity and sw dev as a hobby and work on fiverr as a side gig, or maintain open source software and see less drama. Or take a real hobby.
Manual labor is underrated and protected from automation (whatever can be automated is. The rest of the jobs are AGI/humanoid hard)