A few questions for an accountant

1. Usually.
2. 33

1. No
2. 45.12 years

What kind of a person would spend 45.12 years in a profession that he didn't like?

The troll-flavored type.

Yea, I always wanted to be an archaeologist like Indi Jones.

A person with a need for money to put food on the table and pay rent.

That's a good reason for 2 or 3 years. But for 45.12? That's just dumb. That's falling into a rut and not even trying to get out. But the mad-on you have for accounting makes perfect sense now.

The same kind of person who would keep a Government or Union job they didn't like because of the benefits and the job security. Some people will endure a life of boredom for perceived security. Life is too short for that kind of existence. People who sell their life for that little must strongly believe in reincarnation and vow that the next time around, they will do it their way. Rick

if everybody only takes a job they truly like, there would be no accountants in the world!

there are accountants only because people need to pay the mortgage and buy food.

If everyone followed their dreams, there wouldn't be enough janitors, cashiers, garbage men, and ditch diggers. But the least that someone can ask of life is to eventually, in a decades-long working life, find a job that they don't mind doing very much-- a job that they don't hate.

45.12 years as as an accountant when you hated accounting! Come on! These days people are running at least three different careers before they retire. I know a guy who discovered early in college that he hated accounting, and he's happily managing retail stores now. Four years in college back in the day doesn't lock you in to a field for the rest of your life. Did it ever even occur to you to try to find a different job? You could have earned an MBA with a non-accounting concentration. You could have hit IT in the 90's. You could have retrained as a plumber ten times over, and there's a demand today for the skilled trades. If you really hate accounting, then even janitorial work might have been better, and it's not too late. I don't know what kind of job you would have wanted, but you've had a long time to work on it.

I would not like being a janitor or a ditch digger better than being an accountant. I find all these jobs boring. I do not have the skills or ability to be an MBA or lawyer or entrepreneur. So I stick to accounting.

But it is very easy to retrain as a plumber... just need to show a little rear-end cleavage.

Surely, this is something even you can accomplish.

:-D

i can make more $$$ as an accountant, so why should I retrain for plumber, which is equally dull and even more underpaid?

There's probably no job that could be given to you that you wouldn't hate and then complain bitterly about.

that sounds like the truth

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