While working for this company, I met a woman who was retired but did free-lance accounting services for local businesses. She taught me the basics in business accounting and how to implement those basics into computerized accounting. She taught me all of the aspects of running a business through an accounting point-of-view. I loved working with the different accounting methods and found I was good at what I did. I wanted to do more with an accounting career. The company, for whom I worked, was family-owned; therefore there was no place for advancement within that company and I began searching for another place of employment. I wanted to receive more experience in the working world. .
I then began working in various fields for the next eight years. I still wanted to work with accounting, but I found myself in a career that was in an office and was doing nothing that had to do with accounting. I did my job well, as I have always done in any place I have worked. I am good at whatever I want to do and set my mind to do. I found, though, that the longer I worked for my last place of employment, the more dependent on the money and benefits rather than the happiness I felt with the work I was performing.
When the company for whom I was working, decided to have cost-reduction implemented, they offered a voluntary separation plan for employees. This was an opportunity to end my employment with enough money and benefits to be secure for six months to one year. I was one of the thousands of employees who decided to take this voluntary separation plan. I knew that if I did not do that now, I may never be presented again with the opportunity. I was given a chance to look again at my career goals and what I wanted to pursue in a career. I decided to go back to college to obtain my Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. I knew, however, that with my family, going back to college was going to be difficult. After doing some research, I found that I could attend college on the internet and still be able to pursue other career options.