Every child when they are younger gets asked a million times, what are you going to be when you grow up? Like a 10-year-old has any idea what their aspirations for the future will be. I remember so many times telling other people that I was going to be an educator because my mom was a teacher, so what other opportunities were there. There were only a few jobs that most females in my area took; you were either a teacher or a nurse/doctor and besides that, there wasn't a ton of opportunities.

As I got older, I had to narrow down what I was going to do in my life, if I was going to go into education, what area was I going to go into? I knew first of all that I wasn't going to go into elementary education, my patience is not good at all when it comes to teaching basic principles like addition and subtraction. I found that stuff simple when I was in elementary school and when tutoring little children I would get extremely frustrated trying to get them to understand this basic concept.

Then, when I got older I found out that I enjoyed math enormously, so I thought maybe I could go into high school education. I could become the math teacher that everybody liked even if they hated math itself. However, I found out again that while I found it concrete and understandable, I wasn't always the best about explaining it to other people, especially when some of my methods weren't exactly what the textbook taught. If I still went into education, though, I would definitely become a business teacher because helping others with accounting problems at college is one of my favorite things. In all honesty, I'm still considering getting my Ph.D. later in life and becoming an accounting professor, so I haven't given up COMPLETELY on education.

So you may be wondering, if I didn't pick education what area did I pick? I picked accounting because after a semester learning the material and self-teaching it, I absolutely fell in LOVE with it. I competed in accounting competitions and placed quite high in most of my competitions even when I felt like I was lacking some of the material presented. I love how in accounting you have all this data and you get to organize it to where others can understand it and make decisions based on the material presented. Plus, the amount of ethics in the field is fantastic because I am a very ethical person and I feel like with a job like this I can help ensure that businesses stay on the up-and-up with their financial information.

Some days I wonder if I made the right decision because accounting is really hard, and sometimes I second guess it, but I know it will all fall into place and one day I'll have my job and all the work and the stress will have been worth it.