I remember back in uni getting to know people one of the first things you'd ask was about their majors and then when they told me I'd go "wow that's so cool what made you want to study [your major]" and almost everyone would say something about how much they fucking loved painting or plants or history or how cool coding was and how it was going to change the world or how exciting actually understanding how physics/pumps/chemical reactions was or how the skills they were learning would be able to help people and change the world. Even the business school people would at the very least talk self importantly or with shining eyes about how what they were learning would enable them to help people or have an awesome career.
The accounting students were literally the only exception. I remember throwing that question at three or four of them and I never once got an "accounting's so cool/I love numbers/tax law is so interesting/I can't wait to help fight/commit tax fraud". Two answers I did get, which stuck with me, maybe because they were so similar to each other and different from all the other people I'd asked were [smiling] "It's fucking boring aye" "oh, then why're you doing it?" "I want to buy a jetski" and [deadpan] "Ï want to buy a boat".
Why do people WANT to be CPAs anyways?
Money.
Legit,
I remember back in uni getting to know people one of the first things you'd ask was about their majors and then when they told me I'd go "wow that's so cool what made you want to study [your major]" and almost everyone would say something about how much they fucking loved painting or plants or history or how cool coding was and how it was going to change the world or how exciting actually understanding how physics/pumps/chemical reactions was or how the skills they were learning would be able to help people and change the world. Even the business school people would at the very least talk self importantly or with shining eyes about how what they were learning would enable them to help people or have an awesome career.
The accounting students were literally the only exception. I remember throwing that question at three or four of them and I never once got an "accounting's so cool/I love numbers/tax law is so interesting/I can't wait to help fight/commit tax fraud". Two answers I did get, which stuck with me, maybe because they were so similar to each other and different from all the other people I'd asked were [smiling] "It's fucking boring aye" "oh, then why're you doing it?" "I want to buy a jetski" and [deadpan] "Ï want to buy a boat".
the worst part about it is that at the entry and mid levels, most accounting jobs pay like shit for the hours that you are expected to work.