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by SenHeng 124 days ago
I’ve been fantasising about getting certified as a CPA. People don’t believe me when I say this but my childhood (<14) dream was to be an accountant. I was poor and I enjoyed counting all the coins I saved up (that my dad would eventually borrow to pay the loan sharks) and also watched ducktales a lot.

Having run a business for almost a decade, I’ve accumulated a lot of accounting and tax knowledge that I think would be cool to properly certify. Also it would be to re-live a childhood dream.
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vunderba 124 days ago
Gotta get that number #1 lucky dime first - I've heard it helps to pass the CPA exam!
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fuzzfactor 123 days ago
Have you ever done anything else that you always wanted to do?

That can be a feeling all its own :)

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SenHeng 123 days ago
Despite (or maybe because of) my upbringing, I’ve had the fortune of mostly doing things I wanted to do. Not exactly as I wanted, but more or less in the general direction.

Which is why I’m now in the position to choose whether to study to be a CPA or go back to work.[0]

[0]: https://senhongo.com/blog/sabbatical-update/

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fuzzfactor 122 days ago
It can take a long time to get in position like that, a lot of focus or both.

Maybe not focus first on the goal(s) but the improved ability to keep options open.

I think I've always been comfortable having more viable options than I would ever be able to act on in one lifetime.

Always needed something to fall back on anyway.

It would be self-defeating to think that not doing all these things is failing to live up to your potential though, when just having more diverse options open when you need or want them is a feeling not everybody has.

Maybe a good way to bring the option of a sabbatical onto the table, is to have it on the menu to begin with.

Very inspiring :)

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