Category: Jobs and Employment
When I started my accounting and finance degree, I was pretty sure that I actually wanted to be an accountant. I enjoyed the Mathematics involved in the subject as far as I knew back then, and liked using computers as it made the job more accessible to me too.
That hasn't changed much, until the start of this year, when I'm on placement. I redid Prospects Planner (the career options programme that all the careers advisors rave on about - www.prospects.ac.uk) and accountancy was fifth or lower on the list. I've been in my placement a month now and seen a dozen or so too many spreadsheets for my liking. I knew there would be some spreadshet work to be done, but not this much!!!
Anyway, to cut a long story short I have now contacted a local partnership and am half way thorugh a programme designed for people of my age and situation to get to know their personality, motivational drivers, and whatg career options this leads to, and then discussing how to achieve that new career goal. Basically, I may end up doing something like being a careers advisor myself, or maybe doing something in info management.
If anyone else has any interesting career planning stories or questions, I'd be interested to read them. You never know, I may be able to advise!!!