How can I make an Accounting course work for me ?

[BoredPerson]

Is Accounting a good career path ? Are there still job opportunities. If I already work at a company how would I make the change to finance ?

 

I am not viewing this as my 'dream job' or life long career but I need a trade or something that can give me good standard of living.

 

After getting much experience could I possibly work small hours as a contractor or through my own business for a high (relative) rate of pay ??

 

The other thing I want to do is a teaching diploma so I can tutor and get paid a lot for doing it, as tutors do get paid very well.

 

What is computer programming like ? I can do a basic level of C++ because it has been a hobby of mine but I am not very advanced.

 

I also want to work for the government because they offer best rate of pay and work life balance.

 

I'm an Australian where the economy has not totally died and is still going pretty strong.

[Geishawhelk]

You've given up the idea of a legal course and career have you?

 

Accountants are two a penny.

Good accountants, with a good reputation, are as rare as hen's teeth.

 

It seems to me as if you are grasping to learn anything - whatever's going - that would give you an income you could be relaxed about.

The way to gain a good salary, is to find something you love doing, that's in demand, and that you're really good at.

 

Just looking for a lucrative career, in no-matter-what field, is not the way to go.

[jerbear]

Is Accounting a good career path ? Are there still job opportunities. If I already work at a company how would I make the change to finance ?[/qoute]If you are not going to be licensed then don't pursue accounting. Accounting and finance are slightly different even thought they share the same concepts.

 

If you don't have a diploma degree or anything higher, getting into finance maybe hard. If you want to enter finance, I would suggest looking into getting a CFA. If you look at the material and do not get it, then no finance.

 

I am not viewing this as my 'dream job' or life long career but I need a trade or something that can give me good standard of living.

 

After getting much experience could I possibly work small hours as a contractor or through my own business for a high (relative) rate of pay ??

I would do that if you have nothing else. It is good business experience if it takes off.

 

The other thing I want to do is a teaching diploma so I can tutor and get paid a lot for doing it, as tutors do get paid very well.

I would suggest relocating to another country to be a tutor, sort of like a high end nanny. They do get paid very well and the clients well connected. Never know you might meet a nice cousin of theirs, 5th removed. :lmao:

 

What is computer programming like ? I can do a basic level of C++ because it has been a hobby of mine but I am not very advanced. [/qoute]

I would avoid being a computer programming tutor if you are not very advanced. I would suggest that you work on some open source projects to get more experience and a reputation.

 

I also want to work for the government because they offer best rate of pay and work life balance.

 

I'm an Australian where the economy has not totally died and is still going pretty strong.

Good idea but the problem with govt jobs is most people are not dynamic enough. Many of those in the civil service unfortunately are dead weights.

 

You've given up the idea of a legal course

Just looking for a lucrative career, in no-matter-what field, is not the way to go.

I have to agree with Geishawhelk in pursuing a field where your passions are.

[anne1707]

Is Accounting a good career path ? Are there still job opportunities. If I already work at a company how would I make the change to finance ?

 

I am not viewing this as my 'dream job' or life long career but I need a trade or something that can give me good standard of living.

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If your heart is not in it then don't go for accountancy. It takes years of hard study and exams plus gaining relevant experience before you can be classed as professionally qualified.

[BoredPerson]

You've given up the idea of a legal course and career have you?

 

 

I would love to get my 2nd degree in law but I do not have realistic expectations that it would be a worthwhile investment.

 

It maybe useful for my current career but the cheapest program I can find is $63,000 index at CPI per year and after completion ends up being much more. The other option is to go back to school and do the 'graduate entry' program but that will result in $8,000 per year for three years and a loss of $56,000 per year in income, plus raises, plus I won't become any more senior. I really need something I can do off campus.

 

Plus it'll be on my credit report that I owe an additional $63,000. I thought it cost half of that ! Law degree is financial suicide at the moment ! it will be hard to get loans or buy a house (which I wouldn't do anyway but what if I want to get married ??) if I owe that much for studies.

[BoredPerson]

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Just looking for a lucrative career, in no-matter-what field, is not the way to go.

 

I know but I don't see too many jobs that require you to drink beer, eat pizza and have sex with many different strange women.

 

Without trying to be mean there are so many cool things in the world like :

 

ALL THE AWESOME COOL TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCE.

 

That doing something like accounting for a living is stupid if you want to do something you love. But then there is the real world where Engineers and Scientists and people who follow their dreams end up working in some sort of Business related job anyway. Or they end up unemployed. Or you spend 4 years getting a science degee do nothing for a year apply for medical school and graduate when you're a little over 30 then you bust your butt for 55k a year for the next 3-4 years while all ur mates are making way more and having way more free time. Then you realise how equally stupid that path is unless, again, you can get into the top 1-5% of your field or you wait until you are REALLY old to enjoy life.

 

Going to university is a bad enough waste of time and sacrifice. Spend 4 years struggling and being poor for no good reason !

 

1) You gotta be a genius.

2) You end up a bureaucrat anyway and half of them then wish they'd gone into business. A tiny, small percentage of Engineers and Scientists will get awesome jobs in the cool things that you read about in 'New Scientist'.

 

My friend (and the woman I love dearly and she loves me too she just doesn't know it yet) just finished her honours year in Genetics and she is a working as a slutty girl at a sleazy pub... wow... great use of that education .... unless she studied anatomy. Haha. The solution ! More education ! I told he to diversify into Business roles but she laughed at me and said it was boring.

 

The other limited factor is my INTELLECT I am simply not a genius so I can't go around studying electrical engineering and quantum mechanics, or field theory because I'd fail or have to dedicate my life to my education for about six years before at the end of it all - ending up as a glorified paper pusher. Or working in the non existent R&D field in Australia. Or being one of the lucky ones and get to wonder all my life where my next contract will come from. Sorry I'm that smart and not the confident and I don't have a big strong man - or family to look after me when I can't get a job researching what genes are found in chickens. Or how to poor concrete without killing people and having a bridge fall down, or how to make fuel pumps that don't catch fire. Sure, more interesting that a lot of things but not worth the effort cause you get bored and want to die anyway.

 

Then there is the other stuff I 'love' I'd become a cop and beat up criminals but the pay is garbage and there is no respect I see the force as being pussy whipped so I'm not dedicating myself to an uniform I don't respect. When they start beating down criminals and drug deals with their fists again and being a forced to be reckoned with and respected AND adult male pay. I might consider.Until then I'm in the position described above.

 

I need a skill something I can focus on and do that will give me a good income and one day the possibility to go part time and earn like 35-40 an hour so I can peruse the things that I like.

 

And that is why I can't do anything I love.

 

1) The world sucks.

2) Not smart enough.

3) Work is work anyway.