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I was thinking of accounting............anyone know anything about this............expierence in it............ I would love to start my own buisness but doing what would be the question............hmmmm....The only thing about accounting would be the schooling factor........I know if I want it bad enough I would go to school, if I had the money and if I had the time I think that maybe it would be a possibility but I dont have either so how do I do that? What about online degrees..........are those jsut as good......I mean you get to work at your own pace right?

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I finally sat down & did sort of an inner personality survey. I really would like to become a mortician, it's something I literally dream about, but in order to do so I have to move out of state, which is a financial impossibility. So I started thinking... What, if anything, am I actually good at? Do I have any talents at all?

I'm only good at one thing - I can find and fix other people's mistakes, so that leaves me editing - or what I'm doing now, which is hotel night audit. I enjoy working with numbers, finding patters, more in the numerology sense than the math sense, but it ties together. Numbers run the Universe in a way... I have a logical & analytical mind and am possibly a schizoid personality, so I can work by myself in a dimly lit basement w/no human contact for long periods of time w/out a problem.

I hate school, always have. But I'm just not making any money with a GED - I make a decent amount doing what I do now, but there's never anything left over at the end of the pay period. I'm always juggling the bills vs. the income. I've also accepted the one thing about myself that everyone seems to think is a bad thing - I like money. Money makes me happy. When I have money, I feel so secure and at ease - as opposed to always wondering how the electric bill is going to get paid, or how we're going to eat for the next week. Money is a wonderful thing that I've never had quite enough of to live on... Yeah, I know, everyone always says, "Money can't buy happiness... It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you have', all those old saws, but I am ready & willing to accept that one personal truth - a great deal of my depression is directly linked to too many years of no electricity, no hot water & dumpster diving for my next meal, and the constant threat of ending up in that position again somehow. Having enough money would also mean being able to get out from under the thumb of my mother-in-law.

Soooo, I started looking up money, numbers & finding/fixing other people's mistakes. If I make a sacrifice, which is about 6 years of school, I can get a CPA or CMA & make 6 figures a year. Even w/a 2-year associate degree in Accounting, I can double or triple my current salary. And, if I'm good enough, if I stick with it for the next few years, become determined to meet the right people I can combine my desire to help the dead with my ability to catch errors & branch into forensic accounting or document examination.

Of course, I'm only in my 2nd month of school & feel completely swamped by the first 4 chapters of my Accounting textbook, but things are starting, slowly, to make sense. And now that I have a specific goal, school isn't as bad as I thought it would be. It also helps that 2 of the 4 classes I take are online. The school has tutoring services & additional webpages for practice quizzes & practice questions, so there are a ton of resources available.

If you want anything more specific, go ahead & PM me - I could go on for some pages, otherwise....

Best of luck in whatever you decide.