just wait and see

Its normal to be asked what the plan is after school, or and why you picked a certain pathway and for a while I had trouble answering this. I study Accounting and as much as I tried I couldn’t imagine myself doing that sort of work. I am a very practical sort of person who loves pulling stuff apart, for example computers seem pretty natural to me.

So why am I going down this bean counter pathway?

I read the Richest Man in Babylon and came to the realisation of why, I had subconsciously been studying money (although I kinda knew that) simply to learn exactly how it works.

I really need to emphasise how little I actually want money, by all means I’d love to be a millionaire (and I’m convinced that I probably will be later on) but for the time being I would rather enjoy my youth and earn a 1/4 of what a normal person does if it would mean I have 4 times as much free time.

Money doesn’t bring you happiness but I need cash to do everything on my bucket list and If money would miraculously land in my lap it would be great.

So I’ve studied money for the past four years, becoming as financially literate as possible so this may happen.

two side effects of this is:

1. Money makes the world go round, so understanding the why behind a lot of things is easy.
2. I am qualified to work in the financial industry.

Now I don’t feel so bad about the career I’m going to leave behind when I travel to Canada after graduation.