Career Interest

When we are young, people continually ask us what we want to be when we grow up. This is something that is often dreamt about by young people. I know, as a child, I had many dreams of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Turning those dreams into reality seemed far away as a child but there was always the possibility of dreams coming true. When I was young, I wanted to be a school music teacher. When I was attending high school, I realized that becoming a teacher and working with children was something that I really did not want to do. I realized that I did not have the patience or the ambition to pursue that career.
I took my first business courses when I was in high school. The thought of having a business career seemed a possibility. The courses in high school seemed easy enough, and I liked doing them. When it came time to choose a college after high school, I decided to attend a business college in my home state. The business college I attended had a program that started in the spring. I had enough credits in high school to graduate early, and could enroll in the spring college class. I was not sure at the time I started college exactly what career I wished to pursue, but knew I wanted to do something with busin

As my children are now teenagers, I have found that working full-time in my place of employment was affecting my family life. I was away from home for fifty hours every week and the time I was able to spend at home, my children always appear to have an activity or function they need to attend for church or for school. I thought that if only I could stay home and work from my home, I would have more time for my family. A career in accounting would be able to give me that option. My ultimate goal is to become a Certified Public Accountant and do the work from my home.

During my college attendance, I started a family of my own. I had one child while in college and had another child after I graduated from college. I had my degree but after my children came along, I decided at that time, I did not want to work as a Legal Secretary. I still wanted to use my secretarial degree but did not want to work in law. When my daughter became six months old, I was ready to pursue my career. I received my first job as a secretary and bookkeeper for a small company in Stover, Missouri, to where I then moved. While working for this company, I met a woman who was retired but did free-lance accounting services for local businesses. She taught me the basics in business accounting and how to implement those basics into computerized accounting. She taught me all of the aspects of running a business through an accounting point-of-view. I loved working with the different accounting methods and found I was good at what I did. I wanted to do more with an accounting career. The company, for whom I worked, was family-owned; therefore there was no place for advancement within that company and I began searching for another place of employment. I wanted to receive more experience in the working world.

In looking at a career interest, a person’s personal values need to be carefully analyzed. It is a person’s beliefs that are going to guide them in career choices. These beliefs can be affected by, and include a person’s family, education, how a person cares about others, and employment. My own personal values have been affected by all of those things.

I have completed my own taxes, my husband’s business taxes and even friends’ taxes over the past few years. I liked doing this and found that I was good at what I did and that I could understand the tax laws and instructions, easily. I want to pursue more in a career working with taxes.