The beginning of the end.

My high school diploma has this nice little sticker on it that says "Business Seal"

Which means, basically that I completed the equivalent of a business major in my high school classes. I enjoyed them all, and did well in them all. In fact, my senior year of high school was literally half business classes and half AP classes. 

And yet, when I graduated high school I thought that was the end of my business days. 

Fact: I was convinced that there was no future in business or accounting. 

Fact: I didnt take accounting 2 in high school because I thought it was useless and that I wouldnt be able to use it later in life. 

Fact: It wasnt until the summer after my freshman year of college that I cracked the business world, that I realized that you can go anywhere with a business or accounting degree- in fact you can go ANYWHERE with  an accounting degree. 

So I started Transy as a Biology major. I didnt know what I wanted to be, so I was going to be a vet. And I wouldnt change my Transy experience at all. I think I did exactly what was needed. But then over the summer after my freshman year I applied for an became a banquet server at the Hyatt. And I realized that business was not a bad future. So, upon returning to Transy, I enrolled in an accounting class. That was the beginning of the end for me. Principles 1, and I was hooked, I loved it, really. I asked the professor - who would later become my adviser about being a business major with a focus in accounting. He said I couldnt be a business major, that I had to be an accounting major, and I listened to him. My first A in college was in that first accounting class, and I graduated with an A+, A or A- in every accounting class that I took. That, my friends is how I knew I was in the right place, that and I enjoyed my homework. 

Accounting is my calling, yes, my passion. But that doesnt mean that it will rule my entire life, all the time. No, I think of myself as very much the epitome of a liberal arts student. I majored in accounting, but I almost had a biology and a philosophy minor and I took 3 religion classes. Then, my second semester of senior year I signed up for a Political Science class, what the hell, ya know? I personally thought that the general education requirements were great, because they all took me outside of my comfort zone, and now I strive to challenge my comfort zone. 

Heres to doing things that you never saw a future in, and learning how to excel outside of your comfort zone.