Friday, August 31, 2012

MAcc, CPA, CMA, CFA, CFP. What?

I don't know what I'm doing with my life.  I keep going to all of these accounting meetings, and after each one I walk out even more confused.  I am graduating with a degree in accounting and finance in less than a year, and I don't even know what accountants do.  I can sit in my accounting class and learn, go to the library and do my accounting homework, and pass my accounting tests.  It's not always easy, but I can do it.  But I have no idea what an accountant with an actual accounting job does.  

All of the accounting professors say I need to be doing internships.  I need to be in all of these clubs, I need to be networking, meeting people in all these different firms.  I need to get my Master's degree.  There is so much stuff that I am not doing, and have actually never even thought about.  

How am I supposed to go and talk to all of these people when I don't even know what an accountant does? How am I supposed to know if I even like what accountants do?  I really enjoy all of my accounting classes, but how do I find a job where I will be doing the parts of accounting that I like?  

I thought I was pretty dang cool to almost have a degree in both Accounting and Finance in less than a year, but now, I'm thinking I'm pretty dang clueless what I can even do with those.  Now I feel this desperate need to get every possible certification possible, just to cover all of my bases.  

At least that way I will probably never have to actually start working...

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like we need a Temple run at midnight. And maybe we should just move to another country and never get real jobs...I like that idea.

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