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Posted: 17 Jul 2011 at 21:12 | IP Logged
shades395 wrote:
Kfan wrote:
I don't like a lot of people contact, so that is why accounting seems more tolerable to me.
Ugh, please do not perpetuate this stereotype. Perhaps in industry this is the case, but public accounting, particularly audit, is all about people contact. Calling and meeting with client contacts is a huge part of the job and how these meetings are handled can really make a difference in how you feel about your work. I don't mean to sound harsh, Kfan, I just don't want people coming to these forums and thinking that all jobs in accounting require little to no human contact.
To answer the OP's question, I am passionate about my family, friends, and hobbies. I am not passionate about accounting, but like Kfan, I find it that it is a tolerable job that provides a decent salary and job security. I do not feel that one needs to be particularly passionate about something to do well on it (especially the CPA exam, in your case), but I suppose it would enhance your overall experience. You will certainly find people that are passionate about accounting, and I am not stating that to be passionate about a job excludes one from being passionate about other things. I am simply stating that I have no issue viewing my career as only a means to support myself and the activities outside of work that I enjoy partaking in. "Work to live," I suppose.
Good point. Tax and industry work do not involve a lot of people contact. Audit does. A lot of people in audit though eventually wind up in industry anyway. So it is safe to say that most people in accounting for most of their career do not have a lot of people contact. People who follow the partner track in PA are the exception.
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Posted: 18 Jul 2011 at 00:37 | IP Logged
As long as you don't HATE accounting. If you hate doing something - anything, then you won't do it. Conversely, do you like it? As long as you don't mind it - neither like or dislike. You don't hate it but you don't especially like it. Accounting makes a living, is the bottomline.
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Posted: 19 Jul 2011 at 09:49 | IP Logged
brooklynCPA23 wrote:
I don't seem to have a problem doing the work which I'm getting paid for, but I seem to become miserable studying for the CPA exam.
Nobody lives to balance petty cash or accrue payroll. Anyone who does is an eager rookie who will soon get over it or is nuts. Accounting is a job and the job pays the bills. Work to live. Not live to work unless you actually find something to be passionate about.
Studying for the CPA exam is deadly dull and headache producing if you work at it correctly. Sorry. Join the club. I passed each on the first try and got a life afterwards. Gleim books are especially dreary to me. I favored Wiley's books.
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011 at 00:36 | IP Logged
Accounting is good for control freaks. It isn't a field that exactly stirs your emotions. However, it is an 'art' to select the information that is relevant to the user and reliable, so maybe you could consider the financial statements to be your 'paintings' and be passionate about presenting those?
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