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[quote=Anonymous]I'm passionate about accounting!!   :mrgreen:

I work with nonprofits, and love being able to organize financial data to facilitate decision making for mission-driven organizations.  I get to use my superpower for good!  My staff is mostly young people and I love mentoring/teaching them.  Most didn't get accounting degrees and are now pursuing it more formally.

You need a mind for organizing things, and being able to sort and analyze data - to see the "story" it tells.  You don't need to know or love complicated math - adding/subtracting/dividing/multiplying - understanding percentages.

There's a pretty big shortage of accountants out there.  AI is being introduced into the software used for accounting, but it's making having an analytical mind and ability to interpret the data even more important - because it can quickly become "garbage in garbage out".  Oddly enough, when the world goes haywire (like in the pandemic) the need for accounting just increases - I've always had very good job security.  There are a lot of deadlines - so you have to manage to those and protect your work/life balance in the time between deadlines - but that's very doable.[/quote]

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