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Professional Accounting Qualifications – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
I have a professional accounting qualification, is it all it’s advertised to be? It took me eleven years to complete my professional accounting qualification. I studied part time, worked full time, studied at night, weekends, made huge sacrifices. I did my articles, (my training contract), after my post grad and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at the age of 28. I guess that I had believed (and most students that I work with have the same unarticulated belief) that the day you qualify, everything will be okay, you will ‘be’ successful. You are so used to being on a path, and the only goal you can see is getting those…
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Why the education system let me down
‘Starting again’ has been HARD, and my education didn’t help I ‘started’ again in my late 30’s, and I feel like the education system hasn’t helped me! New career, new country, entrepreneur instead of employee. (I discussed this a little in a previous post). “I started over” – It’s such a short and simple sentence that hides a volume of challenges, emotions, experience, change, frustrations, excitement, life lessons and character building. It was a gradual shift for me, from employee to entrepreneur, from perfect student to rebel, from accountant to creative, and from fixed to growth mindset. I feel that my education and what I was taught about how the…
