A man took an advisor's suggestion to become an accountant in his mid-20s because he was good at math. He earned $40,000 a year in a rigid job with strict schedules and limited breaks, while his manager with 30 years experience made $80,000. He resents the narrow guidance but acknowledges the work taught him skills.
I'm mid-20s or whatever. I'm like, I guess I should go to college because I didn't do that in high school. Lady walks up to me, she's like, "Can I help you?" I'm like, "Yeah, I want to go to college." She goes, "What do you want to do?" I have no idea whatsoever. That's why I'm staring at the board here. And she goes, "What are you good at?" I said, "I'm really good at math." And so she says, "Why don't you become an accountant?" I was like, "Dope, let's sign me up for that." To this day, I still hate that lady because she asked me no questions whatsoever other than what are you good at? And math has nothing to do with accounting, really. And I got stuck as an accountant, but it did help me a lot. I learned a lot from it. You know, when I started seeing what the potential was in that position, at my peak I was making $40 grand a year as an accountant crunching numbers. And the person in charge who told me what time I had to show up and when I could go to lunch and when I could take a break and when I could go on vacation and when I could do all the things, she was making like $80,000. She'd been doing it for 30 years. I'm like, shit, here we go again.
How YOU Can Make $15,000 Per Week from ANYWHERE ft. Keenan Stockling Jr | Ep112
