To be or not to be

Whenever one asked me what major I would take in the university, I would probably reply 'accountancy'. Why did I insist I would take that as my major? Because I forgot when I did ever thought about other major after I eliminate 'engineering' from my option lists. First of all, I may list all the reasons for my preference to accountancy.

1. My mum and two aunties are working in this area. my grandma used to play an role inbetween a cashier and an accountant in her company. I feel that being an accountant is sort of family career except I am a boy while the rest are all females.
2. I found it interesting to intepret from data. The analysis of data in SBQ was one of my favourite question type. In my opinion, an accountant is to analyse the financial figures and give his intepretation to the boss. It suits me.
3. Accountant is an occupation that is never outdated. Since it would not be difficult for me to be enrolled in NTU business school, I think the chances of my getting a job with good pay in 5 years should not be low.
4. This was the major reason why I persuade myself to take accountancy recently, until the talk that I shall mention later. At present, I find none of maths, physics, chemistry lessons enjoyable. I wonder if I still suit the science stream even though my art subjects used to lag behind. I did find it intriguing when I am reading the articles regarding economics, politics and so on. Was it because I think I should take science for granted, or was it because my poor english refrain me from choosing any art subjects from the very beginning of JC life? I somehow thought maybe I should try arts instead.

When I was so determined that accountancy in NTU would be my safest and most likely choice, I had a talk with the professor that mentoring us in a maths project.

It was last Sunday afternoon. After we four finished out discussion with the professor on the final report, he started asking our plans. When I told him I would probably choose accountancy as my career, he muted for several seconds. Then he said accountancy is boring, really boring. I was puzzled and asked him for the reason. He told me being an accountant is to intepret data given and write financial report. I did not make any comment but asked him how he felt about my second option, which is actuarial science. He seemed to be excited with this subject. He told me it was an interesting job and even extended this conversation into other areas like financial mathematics.

Honestly, I found it bizarre when he said accountancy is boring while actuarial science is interesting. To me, the two do not make much difference. They both require me to analyse data, maybe except that I have to write financial report as an accountant. However, I then found me resemble the professor to a certain extent. I think science is boring, and arts may be interesting. But have I ever attempted arts before? What if arts turn out to be more boring than science, would the latter appear to be relatively interesting? Why did I so hastily make the conclusion that I should abandon science, which I have been very familiar with for decades.

Besides, I think that professor should be a whole scientific person. His S paper was even F maths when he was in HCJC. I myself am not far away from him. Shall I listen to his viewpoints? or shall I believe in my guess?

Anyway, the high employability and relatively high pay are still the two factors that make me more inclined to take accountancy in my tertiary education. However, I become obviously less certain than before. The question is now looming, the question that I should have considered, and would make decisions immediately three years ago if I had been in China----
文还是理，这是一个问题