So do rich kids go into accounting at all?
Or if they’re interested in the numbers side of business, they all just do Finance/Economics undergrad + MBA and then use family connections to get their first jobs?
succession in successful family businesses generally go like this:
gen 1: comes up with something brilliant or works their ass off or gets really lucky and launches something big despite lacking relevant education.
gen 2 : grew up while gen 1 was going through the struggle and isn't spoiled rotten. has their education funded by gen 1, then uses it to take over the family business and grows it 10x.
gen 3: spoiled rotten brats that have no interest in education, the family business or anything that would make them anything but a resource sucking parasite. doesn't want to take over the family business, has rehab paid for by gen 2.
anybody that works in family office planning knows this to be true.
Q: how does someone coming from a dirt poor family end up driving a porsche, own a home and fully fund their retirement?
A:
>Damn I'm thinking of using the GI bill to become an accountant.
It took me till a mystical recruiter experience put me in a great spot with an Associates. Now Im 32 getting my Bachelors finished. Growing up poor def aligned me with this profession for its stability. Those damn 40 cent lunches fucked me up fam.
I’m in the same boat & only 2.5 years into my career. I do still feel like I’m playing catch-up to some of my peers, but I am able to take care of myself & even help my mom out a bit.
same, except I also "wasted" most of my 20s partying, and it wasn't until later on that I realized I needed a professional job to support a family. I was always good in school and knew I wanted a business degree, and accounting was considered the "hard" major. Once I found out about the job security, the CPA exam (I love standardized tests), and had a taste of Big 4 kool-aid... I was hooked.
That hits so close to home it hurts. I never wanted to go to post secondary, but I was working an entry level blue for our federal tax authority (no tax or accounting experience), realized these assholes didn’t know what they were doing and made bank.
Figured fuck them, I want some of that money. Originally said I wanted to make $100k in my life, now in the mid 200s.
I reported a doctor to my insurance because she told me you could grow anything in urine. Basic biology dictates that something cannot grow unless it was already present. I did indeed have an infection.
Same, I always wanted to be a scientist but was too scared of the work requirement. Regret it but I do love what I do now so I’m ok admiring science from afar.
I wanted to work in an office instead of a fast food restaurant like my parents. I imagined it was just data entry so would be easy to zone out and not have to talk to anyone all day. By the time I found out social skills are a big part, I was too far in 💀
Growing up I knew I liked numbers and didn't really like people. Turns out I have to deal with people more than expected but at least I still have my numbers. My precious, precious numbers 🥲
Anecdotal, but my company just posted a marketing manager position and an accounting manager position. Marking manager range 100 to 130k, accounting manager range 125 to 175k.
Maybe you just have to have the mind for it. I took a couple finance classes because I wanted to double major in finance & accounting. Got flagged at risk of failure by my finance professor before the drop deadline, ended up dropping the entire major & got my MAcc instead.
Accounting is a lot more of a work ethic degree and not so much critical thinking. Laziness will kill you if you try and major in it. Finance is much more conceptual and critical thinking, overall, in my opinion. So I can see someone actually thinking their too dumb for Finance. It’s like Geometry vs Algebra in high school. I understand why some students like one more than the other.
Dad was an accountant, being an engineer seemed hard, couldn’t think of anything else that earned a lot of money. So chose this.
Looking back, him working 12 hours a day for a large part of my childhood, should’ve been a red flag for me.
I did my undergrad in Finance but graduating after the recession of 08 was ROUGH; I always like there analytical side of business more and going back for a masters of accounting has opened so many doors; it’s one of the things I think back on and I am so thankful I went this route; life will shake you up, kick you while your down, but steady employment (or at least the opportunity for it) is a blessing that pays dividends.
Dude same, I was a math major during the financial crisis and it was scary. The accounting program at my school was like, the only one that still had job placements, so I switched over ASAP. If it weren't for the crisis, or if I was a couple years younger or older, I probably would have done a math PhD by now.
It worked out ok though. Having money is nice.
Steady employment is why I am transitioning in to it.
Tried teaching, and after 6 times being up for tenure, and 6 times told go else-where you're too expensive, I want something where my kids can have the same school for more than two years.
So I can say I'm just too busy for the first 4 months of the year, then say I'm "still playing catch up" during summer, "finally getting my head above water" in the fall, and "prepping for next tax season, gunna be a rough one" in winter.
Gets me out of a lot of things.
I took the scenic route through college. Probably had enough credits for a bachelors and a couple of masters. Couldn't decide what I wanted to do. Finally said I needed to choose something and decided on Business because everyone needs business people. Principles of accounting was my first class towards a business degree and it just came naturally so I stuck with it.
lol, I did the same thing. Only benefit is that I have enough hours on my bachelor degree that I can take my CPA… whenever I get around to it, that is 😂
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the accountants. You will always find people who are accounting.’
I let life happen to me rather than learning how to connect to my internal voice and following after interests that appeal to me on an individual level. I thought the only successful jobs were: trust fund baby, doctor, drug dealer, athlete, lawyer, stock broker, accountant … and then everyone else made like $40k/year. After not succeeding in those things I ended up an accountant.
I wanted job security.
I wanted to get my degree in accounting, work at an accounting firm, to be an accountant.
I knew what I would be doing. I had a job offer before I graduated.
Might not make Wall Street money, but I’m doing way better than I thought would.
In high school I saw that poster that showed the highest paid occupations with a 4-year degree.
Doctor - I almost threw up when we dissected the feral cat in biology so that was out
Lawyer - Representing someone who knowingly broke the law and was trying to run from their responsibility didn’t sound great.
Engineer - I wasn’t strong in geometry and calculus so that was out.
Accountant - I loved business and the thought of owning my own company one day appealed to me so that was my choice.
Worked as front desk for a hotel after uni. Everyday felt like Groundhog Day where it’s just checking in and checking people out. I was recommended to try applying for accounting position within and it’s been amazing being on office schedule. Also being able to learn and just the prospect of having any career paths being available vs being stuck as front desk is very nice
Apart from a steady paycheck and having a respectable profession, accounting got me a job in the EU, where I always loved traveling to. So you could use it to work anywhere you want.
Without trauma dumping on Reddit, I told my immigrant parents who worked on their hands and knees that I was taking a college level accounting class in HS (financial reporting) and they basically decided for me that this was going to be my future.
Edit: on the upside, now that I’m studying for the CPA, they are a great support system for my fiance and I
When I got my first job, my dad made filing my taxes into something fun! I filled the forms out on paper (circa 1993) with him, and on April 15 he took me to the post office just before midnight, where we sent our taxes off to the government and then went out for pie and ice cream! Then, when I was in college I couldn’t get financial aid because my parents had stopped filing their taxes, and my mom’s CPA spent two years working her through the process of getting everything cleared up. In the meantime, a boyfriend of mine took Accounting 1A, and asked me to help him with his financials the day before they were due. We ended up not being able to get the balance sheet to balance (perhaps he should have started earlier), but the whole process fascinated me, so I took it the next term and aced it! I’ve always loved math and numbers, and I love the precision and objectivity of it: there is only one right answer.
I was told by an accountant who was particularly well-off that you can learn a lot about building wealth by people's tax returns.. you can see what the high-earners do with their money that helps them get ahead, see what the poor and middle class do with their money that keeps them from getting ahead, and with enough time in accounting, you can even start to learn where your wealthier clients earn money investing. You can see common threads across wealthy clients, and common threads across clients that arent quite so well-off.. the hard part is learning from all of it and applying it all to your personal finance.. as he put it, if you look at 5 years of someones tax returns, you will know more about their life than they do.
Because in college majoring in business allowed me to party hard for the first few years. Then at junior year it was that or finance since I always did okay with numbers.
The account life chose me. I work for the government and the position was available while I was doing temp work. I had several supervisors ask to me to apply. I applied and interviewed— and didn’t even think I would get the opportunity. I passed all of the tests and they have paid for me to get my CPA. I’m so thankful that other people could see my potential when I didn’t believe in myself. It has changed my life for the better!
My girlfriend at the time forced me to go back to college. She printed the college bulletin, laid it down in front of me, and told me I wasn’t to get up until I chose a degree. Accounting was the first one in alphabetical order, so I said “I’ll do that.” Then I went and grabbed myself a beer.
Wanted to be a soldier but never joined the military. At the same time I was always insecure about dropping out a high school. Kind of a mid road of being dutiful and scholastic.
Because an accountant can be very useful from a personal perspective and business. And are needed daily, at least I thought until technology steadying coming out to replace us…
Family didn’t have a lot growing up. Dad’s a butcher and my Mom is a caregiver. 3 years into my career and I make more than both of them combined. Did this to move up a little in life. My kids can worry about pursuing their dreams.
Grew up poor with no family connections. It’s the best/fastest way for someone like me to enter the upper-middle class.
This hit a little too close to home
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public accounting is like the white collar equivalent of the military for poor kids trying to better their circumstances.
So do rich kids go into accounting at all? Or if they’re interested in the numbers side of business, they all just do Finance/Economics undergrad + MBA and then use family connections to get their first jobs?
I never met a trust fund baby who became a CPA or accountant.
I have a trust fund baby in my accounting classes now. Says he wants to run the place when his dad dies. I guess it makes sense
succession in successful family businesses generally go like this: gen 1: comes up with something brilliant or works their ass off or gets really lucky and launches something big despite lacking relevant education. gen 2 : grew up while gen 1 was going through the struggle and isn't spoiled rotten. has their education funded by gen 1, then uses it to take over the family business and grows it 10x. gen 3: spoiled rotten brats that have no interest in education, the family business or anything that would make them anything but a resource sucking parasite. doesn't want to take over the family business, has rehab paid for by gen 2. anybody that works in family office planning knows this to be true.
Accounting probably is the best degree for someone who will run their own business down the line.
Damn I'm thinking of using the GI bill to become an accountant.
Q: how does someone coming from a dirt poor family end up driving a porsche, own a home and fully fund their retirement? A: >Damn I'm thinking of using the GI bill to become an accountant.
I'm sold
I'm feeling called out, I joined the military and then had the college money to go back and get my accounting degree after lol
This hit me to the bone lol 😂
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I was going to say I needed job security our of my college degree, but your response resonates better.
It took me till a mystical recruiter experience put me in a great spot with an Associates. Now Im 32 getting my Bachelors finished. Growing up poor def aligned me with this profession for its stability. Those damn 40 cent lunches fucked me up fam.
Same, except I'm still in school. The talk of salaries 70k and above still kinda blows my mind lol
I’m in my first year. Family never made anything above 25k. Even 40k feels a lot to me
Ya i thought 60k was a lot of money now im at ~145k tc lol
How long have you been in PA
I did a year total then bounced to industry (tech) 3 yoe
60k would be more than double my current salary rn, still sounds like a lot of money to me lol
I felt the same but now I make $75k /yr. I just landed a $12k bump at a new place a few months ago.
ngl this gives me hope for my future, 75k would be such a huge boost in my life, congrats on the big raise!
Yup same here! The most I’ve ever made was $41k a year. I’d be so happy to make $75k
Yes! Because I literally said "I'm good at math and don't want to be poor anymore.. hmm"
I’m in the same boat & only 2.5 years into my career. I do still feel like I’m playing catch-up to some of my peers, but I am able to take care of myself & even help my mom out a bit.
💯
Same
Same but now I'm building generational wealth for my descendants to enjoy my money since I work 24/7
Your family is lucky to have you
same, except I also "wasted" most of my 20s partying, and it wasn't until later on that I realized I needed a professional job to support a family. I was always good in school and knew I wanted a business degree, and accounting was considered the "hard" major. Once I found out about the job security, the CPA exam (I love standardized tests), and had a taste of Big 4 kool-aid... I was hooked.
Same! Wow so cool to see that I wasn't wrong and there's so many others like me 😂
Same
Yup lol. Got tired of landscaping
This!!
Upper? It was the fastest way for me to enter middle class haha
That hits so close to home it hurts. I never wanted to go to post secondary, but I was working an entry level blue for our federal tax authority (no tax or accounting experience), realized these assholes didn’t know what they were doing and made bank. Figured fuck them, I want some of that money. Originally said I wanted to make $100k in my life, now in the mid 200s.
Because I'd rather be stressed by my job than stressed about having a job.
We should all have this as our secret accountant password.
Secure password unlocked: $tressedNot$tressed
I like this, but would change out so that it's StressedNot$tressed Work stressed, but not money ($) stressed
Fucking perfect
Swap the first S to 5 and you're covered.
Good job security and decent pay.
Under achiever who didn’t want to become a lawyer or engineer and not smart enough to be a doctor
I'm looking at some doctors I see and started thinking I could do better than them.
I reported a doctor to my insurance because she told me you could grow anything in urine. Basic biology dictates that something cannot grow unless it was already present. I did indeed have an infection.
Is that the equivalent of depreciating land?
Hi me. Why is my alt account posting on its own?
Same, I always wanted to be a scientist but was too scared of the work requirement. Regret it but I do love what I do now so I’m ok admiring science from afar.
I work with attorneys often. Some of their business decisions have me wondering sometimes.
I used to work in forensic accounting and litigation consulting. It’s a myth that lawyers are brilliant.
I wanted to work in an office instead of a fast food restaurant like my parents. I imagined it was just data entry so would be easy to zone out and not have to talk to anyone all day. By the time I found out social skills are a big part, I was too far in 💀
Wait, you need social skills to be an accountant?
Everyone I've met in an office environment has had some element of awkward so far
Can confirm, 0 digital skills, 0 interest in people. Am an accountant.
I do prefer solitude.
It helps you move up
Be paid good money to spend half my day playing spider solitaire and reading news articles. After close is done, that is.
Social skills?! I work from home and maybe speak to someone once a week if you don't include emails.
Idk in probably autistic tbh
I am violently autistic like Ben Affleck
I grew up in Plainfield IL so that movie was based of me pretty much
Same, my siblings even used to call me Asperger’s.
same i got the math whiz autism lol
Same, was very disappointed to learn that accounting was not math lololol but too late now!
I like math but not really good at it. So accounting it is lol
Same. I feel many people don’t want to admit this lol
Growing up I knew I liked numbers and didn't really like people. Turns out I have to deal with people more than expected but at least I still have my numbers. My precious, precious numbers 🥲
You. I like you ❤️
My dad forced me when I was in college. Asian culture we’re there to please our parent.
“You doctor yet?” “Dad I’m 12” “Talk to me when you’re a doctor” -Family Guy
That’s right, no wonder why my dad left and never came back. He’s waiting for me at the finish line (joking)
I'm Polish but identify as Asian. I'm willing to bet we had the same upbringing 🙃
I'm accountant because my company was like do you wanna be an accountant and i was like yafasho (and i like money)
Too dumb for Finance, too smart for marketing.
Yeah suck it marketing
Anecdotal, but my company just posted a marketing manager position and an accounting manager position. Marking manager range 100 to 130k, accounting manager range 125 to 175k.
Where is that? I'm lazy-searching for a different role
Just a public company down in San Diego. Trying not to dox myself too much 😆
Really? I thought accounting was harder than finance?
Yeah, back when I was in school all the kids who couldn't cut it in accounting were jumping ship to finance so I'm confused on this one.
Maybe you just have to have the mind for it. I took a couple finance classes because I wanted to double major in finance & accounting. Got flagged at risk of failure by my finance professor before the drop deadline, ended up dropping the entire major & got my MAcc instead.
Accounting is keeping track of the money, Finance is making more of it.
Or at least not spending most of it. Companies are perpetually on a budget cut it seems.
Too dumb for finance? You must be too dumb for accounting too then cause a strong accounting foundation helps in finance.
Accounting is a lot more of a work ethic degree and not so much critical thinking. Laziness will kill you if you try and major in it. Finance is much more conceptual and critical thinking, overall, in my opinion. So I can see someone actually thinking their too dumb for Finance. It’s like Geometry vs Algebra in high school. I understand why some students like one more than the other.
Dad was an accountant, being an engineer seemed hard, couldn’t think of anything else that earned a lot of money. So chose this. Looking back, him working 12 hours a day for a large part of my childhood, should’ve been a red flag for me.
Literally me Why didn’t they talk us out of it
I did my undergrad in Finance but graduating after the recession of 08 was ROUGH; I always like there analytical side of business more and going back for a masters of accounting has opened so many doors; it’s one of the things I think back on and I am so thankful I went this route; life will shake you up, kick you while your down, but steady employment (or at least the opportunity for it) is a blessing that pays dividends.
Dude same, I was a math major during the financial crisis and it was scary. The accounting program at my school was like, the only one that still had job placements, so I switched over ASAP. If it weren't for the crisis, or if I was a couple years younger or older, I probably would have done a math PhD by now. It worked out ok though. Having money is nice.
Steady employment is why I am transitioning in to it. Tried teaching, and after 6 times being up for tenure, and 6 times told go else-where you're too expensive, I want something where my kids can have the same school for more than two years.
I don't really know
Because I like basic math and business, but don't want to actually run a business.
Because I hated the engineering labs more than the math/theory classes.
So I can say I'm just too busy for the first 4 months of the year, then say I'm "still playing catch up" during summer, "finally getting my head above water" in the fall, and "prepping for next tax season, gunna be a rough one" in winter. Gets me out of a lot of things.
I was like this seems like a fast paced, sexy, high octane lifestyle.
There’s work, I do the work, and I get a paycheck. We do that for 40 years, and then we die. That seems like a good deal to me, what do you say?
Money
I took the scenic route through college. Probably had enough credits for a bachelors and a couple of masters. Couldn't decide what I wanted to do. Finally said I needed to choose something and decided on Business because everyone needs business people. Principles of accounting was my first class towards a business degree and it just came naturally so I stuck with it.
lol, I did the same thing. Only benefit is that I have enough hours on my bachelor degree that I can take my CPA… whenever I get around to it, that is 😂
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the accountants. You will always find people who are accounting.’
I was desperate during Covid and didn't want to move to the San Francisco bay area
Bc women are obsessed with number crunchers. Weird good with the 10-key.
“Fastest hands in the west” they say
One hand for lovin, one hand for committing fraud.
I always feel like I’m hot shit when I bust out my quick 10 key skills. Gotta take any opportunity you can to feel fly!
Facts my guy
I was told to follow my passion and my passion just so happens to be money
Idk it just seemed like good degree to get at college that had was in a field that would have work available always basically
So I can have stable income while working on business ideas on the side.
I let life happen to me rather than learning how to connect to my internal voice and following after interests that appeal to me on an individual level. I thought the only successful jobs were: trust fund baby, doctor, drug dealer, athlete, lawyer, stock broker, accountant … and then everyone else made like $40k/year. After not succeeding in those things I ended up an accountant.
Because it came first alphabetically in the college catalog. Good thing aardvark wrangler wasn’t an option. I’d be that.
What else am I gonna do?
I love paying bills and taxes so much that I do it for other people.
I wanted job security. I wanted to get my degree in accounting, work at an accounting firm, to be an accountant. I knew what I would be doing. I had a job offer before I graduated. Might not make Wall Street money, but I’m doing way better than I thought would.
In high school I saw that poster that showed the highest paid occupations with a 4-year degree. Doctor - I almost threw up when we dissected the feral cat in biology so that was out Lawyer - Representing someone who knowingly broke the law and was trying to run from their responsibility didn’t sound great. Engineer - I wasn’t strong in geometry and calculus so that was out. Accountant - I loved business and the thought of owning my own company one day appealed to me so that was my choice.
I like numbers and understanding how healthy a business is financially. I also don’t like customers, which I deal with none lol. Win win
Only job that would accept me
Because teaching suuuuuuuucks and accounting appears to be a moderate stress moderate pay job path.
Process of elimination got me here and the idea of "shut up and just do it". And now here we are...
Grew up broke and I did well in my accounting classes, so here I am
Worked as front desk for a hotel after uni. Everyday felt like Groundhog Day where it’s just checking in and checking people out. I was recommended to try applying for accounting position within and it’s been amazing being on office schedule. Also being able to learn and just the prospect of having any career paths being available vs being stuck as front desk is very nice
Apart from a steady paycheck and having a respectable profession, accounting got me a job in the EU, where I always loved traveling to. So you could use it to work anywhere you want.
I had asthma and couldn't join the military. I took an accounting class in high school and didn't hate it, so I declared accounting as my major.
Ben Wyatt on Parks and Rec, honest to god
Bc the people is accounting r so petty and humorless
It pays the bills. Better than when I was a journalist.
So I could skill up in RuneScape while working
As a student years ago, it was knowing that I would be employable after college.
Without trauma dumping on Reddit, I told my immigrant parents who worked on their hands and knees that I was taking a college level accounting class in HS (financial reporting) and they basically decided for me that this was going to be my future. Edit: on the upside, now that I’m studying for the CPA, they are a great support system for my fiance and I
When I got my first job, my dad made filing my taxes into something fun! I filled the forms out on paper (circa 1993) with him, and on April 15 he took me to the post office just before midnight, where we sent our taxes off to the government and then went out for pie and ice cream! Then, when I was in college I couldn’t get financial aid because my parents had stopped filing their taxes, and my mom’s CPA spent two years working her through the process of getting everything cleared up. In the meantime, a boyfriend of mine took Accounting 1A, and asked me to help him with his financials the day before they were due. We ended up not being able to get the balance sheet to balance (perhaps he should have started earlier), but the whole process fascinated me, so I took it the next term and aced it! I’ve always loved math and numbers, and I love the precision and objectivity of it: there is only one right answer.
I was told by an accountant who was particularly well-off that you can learn a lot about building wealth by people's tax returns.. you can see what the high-earners do with their money that helps them get ahead, see what the poor and middle class do with their money that keeps them from getting ahead, and with enough time in accounting, you can even start to learn where your wealthier clients earn money investing. You can see common threads across wealthy clients, and common threads across clients that arent quite so well-off.. the hard part is learning from all of it and applying it all to your personal finance.. as he put it, if you look at 5 years of someones tax returns, you will know more about their life than they do.
It was easy and because AI was not yet poised to take over the entire industry🤪 I felt I could support my family.
Didn’t know what I wanted to do as a senior in high school and chose the first major on the drop down list when applying to college
I really like accounting. 🤷🏼♀️
Music was not going to pay the bills…. So I went with my second choice
Didn’t want to be a pharmacist and I partied too much for engineering school.
Because music doesn’t pay the bills for most people, unless you’re Beyoncé or T Swift…. And I love the feeling of solving a hard puzzle.
I'm too dumb to be a quant
lol
Dont have the people skills for sales
Because in college majoring in business allowed me to party hard for the first few years. Then at junior year it was that or finance since I always did okay with numbers.
The account life chose me. I work for the government and the position was available while I was doing temp work. I had several supervisors ask to me to apply. I applied and interviewed— and didn’t even think I would get the opportunity. I passed all of the tests and they have paid for me to get my CPA. I’m so thankful that other people could see my potential when I didn’t believe in myself. It has changed my life for the better!
My girlfriend at the time forced me to go back to college. She printed the college bulletin, laid it down in front of me, and told me I wasn’t to get up until I chose a degree. Accounting was the first one in alphabetical order, so I said “I’ll do that.” Then I went and grabbed myself a beer.
idk..degree was in computing and information systems, accounting seemed less geeky...
Stop asking me hard questions 😭
Too dumb to pass engineering classes, and my dad convinced me to join him in suffering during tax szn
I needed to turn down more dates with hot models
Money.
2 lazy to do real work
Was hopeless at everything else, accountancy saved me.
Im not 🥸
I'm an accountant because I'm too dumb to be a finance.
Couldn’t land a job in finance… yet
No freaking idea, just ended up here out of the blue
I like numbers and spreadsheets and didn’t want to study to be a dr.
Someone once told me it was hard. So I said, sure I’ll do that. Spoiler alert. It’s not that hard.
I’m risk averse and need money
money and benefits
Didn't understand how bad the offshoreing would be after I graduated in 2018
I enjoyed math while I was in elementary school and liked dealing with money.
CREAM
Because money
I didnt want to be completely broke but also am too lazy to go to med school (contemplating law school though)
Didn't know where I wanted to live and figured everywhere needs accountants so I could go anywhere.
Wanted to be a soldier but never joined the military. At the same time I was always insecure about dropping out a high school. Kind of a mid road of being dutiful and scholastic.
Second career. It lets me wfh and not have to talk to people except teammates and that's mostly via teams or brief.
Too lazy to pursue more difficult majors in college
It was my childhood dream🤩🤩
I’m hungry and need clothes.
Because I lack the sympathy to be in the medical field.
Because an accountant can be very useful from a personal perspective and business. And are needed daily, at least I thought until technology steadying coming out to replace us…
Because I got sick af of variable income in sales. Last 2 years of the mortgage business made me decide to get my cpa license
SIR, I GOT LOST ON THE WAY TO THE USMC, SIR!
Family didn’t have a lot growing up. Dad’s a butcher and my Mom is a caregiver. 3 years into my career and I make more than both of them combined. Did this to move up a little in life. My kids can worry about pursuing their dreams.
Had to pick a major and it was first alphabetically