is her human resources degree so great? she won’t stop talking about how soon she’ll be in her own office firing and hiring… she is an HR assistant right now and i am just about to start an internship.
i know i shouldn’t care but can she really hire and fire while i’m still proving myself at a new firm?
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Marketing is great, I wish my degree had been in that instead of general business. You can add creativity and your own flair to a lot of things and have fun with different aspects of it.
HR is stuck to knowing rules and regulations for this, that, and the other.
Hers may be great for her, but if you like marketing then yours is just as great – for you!
HR is more than just hiring and firing and if that’s all she thinks there is to it, she may get a big wake up call regarding that.
Enjoy your internship and ignore her. Go for what you want!
Wow she will be stuck behind a desk all day and have to deal with complaint after complaint. How fun. NOT!!! With a marketing degree, you can become a buyer for a store, work in advertising and promotions and travel all over, you can work in public relations, and can even become an event coordinator, all of this while knowing how businesses purchase, display, place, distribute, and promote their store and products. You can also work with a diverse group of people and open your own business. Once again, she is stuck in an office (or cubicle) and deal with all the crappy employees, drug screening, and having to know she has to fire people (which will eat at her heart after awhile). Sounds like you got the better end of the deal.
In the long run, you will make about 3 times her income, at the least….. so tell her to make fun while she can!!!
Think about this, you are running a business and hire your friend to run your business. Would you let her immediately hire and fire? I would hope not. With your marketing degree, you will have a great option of traveling the world, and if you work hard, can reach a high position in your firm. Those who are at the high end of the corporate world, typically get to decide what staff to keep.
Forget about what your friends says, focus on your education and do your job well!
Just tell her this. Over 50% of today’s CEO / President working for Fortune 100 companies came from Sales or Marketing. So far, no CEO / President from a Fortune 100 companies started in HR. I think this will shut her up. I have a lot of friends now who are working for major companies like Best Buy, Circuit City, GE, Toy’s R Us, Costco, etc. started from Sales or Marketing. They are making over 200k a year. You have a lot of potential ahead of you.
It has been my experience that a good sales representative or marketing director will leave a HR person in the dust. HR is nothing but headaches for doing a thankless job. If something goes wrong, they’re the first in the line of fire. In most cases they’re glorified payroll clerks and very rarely ever get to use their para-legal knowledge.
Marketing is creative and expansive limited only by your imagination. In her case, it sounds like a bunch self-grandizing in the face of personal insecurity.
Regarding your job status, you were selected because you were seen as the best person for that position. The decision was not made in a vacuum nor by one person.
Seriously if all your friend can think about is hiring and firing she is in for a rude awakening. Our economy is struggling for good talent, which is why us marketing people get into recruitment and make multiple six figure salaries. We are here to support the HR people who cant find anyone to hire – more or less fire. Tell her good luck, then you go get your marketing degree, land a great job making hundred’s of thousands, and send her postcards from the wonderful places you visit on your sick salary. She can put them up in her cubicle in some dingy smelly HR office.
are you doing what you like? If so, then the HELL with your friend. There is no need to be jealous of her… USUALLY, people in HR Departments are usually the most DISLIKED people in ANY company……if you don’t believe THAT, go look at the HR department in ANY state agency.!!! That said, your “friend” sounds rather immature if you ask me…. but as long as YOU are pleased with the way your life is going and your job—WHO CARES that someone else can hire and fire someone–don’t forget—someone can ALSO hire and fire HER as well !!!!