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…