Why I want to be an accountant

A question I get asked a lot is what are you going to do for a career? Some people can’t answer the question because it a big decision to make. But I can. I have known since I was little that I want to own or run a business of some kind. When I was little I always played that I owned some big timed business. I have wanted to have money and a comfortable and stable lifestyle.
This year I signed up for the career academy. This program lets you take college classes at Kirkwood to see the feel of different career options. I picked to take a personal financing and intro into accounting. We get college and high school credit for it so I thought it was a good opportunity. I loved the intro to accounting class. The class was a lot of fun and it came easy to me. I had a great teacher that had really good teaching skills. We learned from what debit and credits were to a full worksheet, we also covered the whole accounting cycle. It was a lot to learn and a lot of memorization. The accounting cycle has a lot of steps to fallow. We also learned how to use QuickBooks. We have to teach ourselves at home on are own computers. I found QuickBooks to be a little hard to learn without help from someone that knew what they were doing. I started to get the hang of it at the end. I just did what I could and tried my hardest and got a good grade on it. But it’s good that I know how to some what use QuickBooks because a lot of businesses look for people that have experience with it. Over all I got an A in the class and leaned a lot from this class. This is when I thought that I might want to be an accountant.
My personal financing class didn’t go the same way. I got the class and everything but just didn’t have the right teacher. The class was about learning how to deal with personal financing to save for retirement. I learned a lot in the class. The most important thing I took way for the class was to save young and always have a plan that you will follow.
I am happy I decided to be a part of the of the career academy because I took a lot away for the experience. This helped me find that I want to be an accountant someday. I want to own my own accounting firm someday down the road after I have all the experience I need to exceed. I hope to be a successful business woman.
To make all this come true I am going to attend Kirkwood for maybe two years. I will get all my requirements out of the way first. After that I will take some business classes because I also need to know how to run my own business. After one or two years I will transfer to UNI and get my accounting degree there. As I go to school I will be living at home so I can save my money and build my credit. After I will find a job and start my adult life from there.