What is the right field to pursue?

[Trimethop]

Just to give a little background information I am a first year
student enrolled for an Accounting degree. The problem is, I am not
liking it very much and ontop of that, it took me this long at the
current stage into my life to figure out that such a profession
lends heavily on communication and extracirricular involvement.
(This is a problem as I am very shy).

I have been thinking of other alternative fields and possible
lucrative careers that may spark a greater interest as well as
mabey escape this involvement issue. Math has always been a very
interesting for me and a strength as well so I am looking into
possible careers and branches such as Mathematical finance or
Actuarial Science. I guess my real question is, should I waste a year of my life
switching into mathematical finance (a very narrow and specialized
field) or Actuarial Science? The two problems with accounting for me is really the courses. I
find most of the Accounting classes very boring and Auditing/taxation class makes me really tired .The second problem I
guess is the the fact that employers care more about your involvement and communication skills than your grades. (Is this
true for other fields like physics/math if your working in industry?)

Should I switch into something more "heavy" on mathematics as I
have a greater interest in it? Or just ride it out with this Business Degree.
I am kind of in a dilemma at this point so any help will be

appreciated. Thanks! How did you guys know what to pursue and follow?

 

[mjsd]

want something heavy on mathematics and still within the commerce family? do Economics... there are heaps of statistics stuffs. And it is NOT going to be easy either...as far as I was told.