GotTheMorbs (original poster member #86894) posted at 6:00 PM on Monday, June 1st, 2026
I just started online classes at my latest university(again), and with my daily responsibilities, unfortunately the only class out of 4 I enrolled in that I could keep up with is Accounting! And oh. my. god. this is the DRIEST material I've ever dealt with. It's somehow simultaneously useful and therefore interesting, as well as (sometimes) a fun challenge to figure out. It's like math for me; I'm not naturally good at it, but I have the skills I need to learn it well and perform it functionally if I work at it. I feel so proud of myself when I eventually get it right. But I definitely have to force myself to pay attention and learn!
Anyone here do accounting or something similar for a living? Do you like it?
Or, if you don't do accounting/don't want to share your job information (understandable), is there something else similar with which you have a love/hate relationship?
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betsy62 ( member #48022) posted at 2:16 AM on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
My mom did the accounting for my dad's two businesses. For 3o years. (Decades ago)
Every once in a while, she would ask me to help her with something.
Watching her do that job and occasionally having to work the numbers with her....
Well, let's just say I knew what I was NOT going to be when I grew up! 
Good luck with your studies. Nice that you have been able to return to them.
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SackOfSorry ( member #83195) posted at 4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
I do accounting or something similar for a living. It is my actual job title, but I would personally say it's something similar. It's not true accounting. I took some accounting classes back in the day. I'm not making ledgers or anything like that. I work for a major retailer, and I take care of the money in a retail environment. I'm responsible for trying to figure out why tills don't balance when that happens, tracking shortages, for balancing coupons, making the daily bank deposit, ordering coin/change, and completing a few reports, that sort of thing.
I love my job. I love the feeling of finding my office/desk full of chaos when I arrive every morning and systematically clearing it all away by the time I leave. I love counting and balancing the money. I love the a-ha feeling of discovering and correcting mistakes. Yesterday I discovered something from May 19 that got missed by my back-up who works on my days off. I get a KISA feeling even if it did only recover $14. (Sometimes I find way more than that.) I love having the keys/codes to an ATM and being locked behind 2 locked doors on 2 cameras. Makes me feel important (even though realistically I know I can be replaced tomorrow). I'm trusted.
I'm nearing retirement age, but I only do this part-time. I'm happy with my hours (my company let me choose the days I work), so I don't think I'll retire. I can't imagine being home with my husband full-time once he retires. One of us has got to get out there and bring home some new news! The only thing I don't like is the drive. At the hour I leave, I have to dodge deer all the way to work. I've hit 2 in the last few years. Actually, the last one hit me. Right in the side, never saw it coming! I'm a true-life Gilmore Girl (if you watched that show).
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sisoon ( Moderator #31240) posted at 4:58 PM on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
I'm not an accountant, but I do tax returns for AARP's Tax-aide program, and I grooved on accounting when I took a course for an MBA.
The anomalies are so cool! Finding anomalies is even cooler. The history of accounting frauds is beyond interesting to me. If you check into them, they may be very interesting to you. Often my prof related FASB rules to the frauds they aimed to prevent or catch.
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2ManyMigraines ( member #61851) posted at 7:06 PM on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
I'm in accounting, my title is staff accountant, but I've not had formal training on it. Math was my worst subject in school, and I'm allergic to numbers. 
Such is the irony of my life. I don't like it much, but it pays the bills. I got into this department at my company because the schedule was more flexible than my previous payroll position. That's the only reason. I don't think it's necessarily boring, it's just not what I want to do.
To be fair, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up though (I'm 55).
