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Accountant to Entrepreneur: My Journey to Independence

Name: Accountant to Entrepreneur: My Journey to Independence
Uploaded: 2024-03-22T17:00:10+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: John Wetmore
Description: In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts how a casual conversation with a woman led them to pursue accounting, a field they entered with minimal…

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In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts how a casual conversation with a woman led them to pursue accounting, a field they entered with minimal deliberation. Over roughly eight years, they worked as an accountant and grew to despise the role, citing constant micromanagement, a grueling hour-and-a-half commute, rigid scheduling, and negligible salary growth as key frustrations. These experiences taught the speaker that they did not want to remain an employee forever, sparking a desire for autonomy and setting the stage for a future shift toward entrepreneurship.

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I'm like, yeah, I want to go to school. She's like, what do you want to do? I'm like, not work day shift in the warehouse. And she goes, all right, well, what are you good at? I don't know, I'm kind of good at math. She goes, why don't you become an accountant? I was like, okay. And I signed up for accounting. That was like how much thought I put into it. And to this day, in a lot of ways, I still hate that lady. I did accounting for like, I don't know, maybe 8 years after the 10-year, whatever it was. And I hated it. But I learned some things. I learned that I didn't want to be an employee. Forever. I learned I didn't like being micromanaged. I learned I didn't like commuting an hour and a half to a job I hated. I didn't like being told when I can come and go. I didn't like being stuck in a salary that I couldn't increase other than 50 cents an hour a year, whatever the number was.