Accountant

One of my favorite aspects about accounting is the flexibility that the career provides. You can work for big firms, for large corporations, or for small businesses. You can work from home, you can work for yourself. There are so many different things you can do to make your career exactly what you want it to be.

It's just the variety of businesses that you can be a part of. Every business out there needs accounting work done and so if variety is the spice of life, I think that you should consider accounting as a profession, especially if you like to keep track of things and analyze information related to businesses and how they operate and how they determine if they're successful. You can be in the construction industry, in healthcare, education, government, startup company in the tech sector, medical device company, pharmaceutical, I don't care. The cool thing is everybody needs accountants and that's one of my favorite things about being an accountant is you are not tied down to any one industry or a set of industries.

One of the things I like most about accounting is I like knowing the language. I like being able to speak the language of business to be able to look at financial statements and know what I'm looking at. Knowing what it took to roll those numbers up and how they get aggregated and disaggregated. You just know what you're looking at and the terminology that's used you understand what's behind it.