Assuming:
A) your goal is to reach 8-figure net worth within 7-8 years
B) you’re willing to work your ass off (obviously!)
C) you’re able to be one of the best out there AND adapt to new technology
In other words: with the above criteria and a strong desire to learn and apply a valuable analytical skill set as you become an entrepreneur, is accounting a particularly good choice?
Hot takes welcome!
I don’t really care too much for A, personally, as putting the monetary figure to it seems too arbitrary for someone who would claim to be a professional accountant. But if you take it slow, build your book of business based on the resources you have at any given time, don’t overextend yourself, and grow incrementally over time, you can definitely still build a relatively successful business by most standards even in today’s landscape.
That makes sense, thanks. It seems like you’re coming from an informed perspective that accounting isn’t the way to make it big in the 10M+ range (even as a firm owner), but that it’s still a field where respectable success can be tapped into. Hard to know what to do really, but accounting is something I’m really close to deciding to study, so your input is very helpful.
Just curious, but why do you seem to arbitrarily correlate “10M+” with “making it big”? The average American spends about $3 to $4 million over the course of their entire lifetime. Most people aspire just to fulfill that budget and give themselves an ample runway for retirement. What would be the need to grossly exceed that lifetime budget more than twofold year over year?
I mean, frankly speaking, the amount of waste we’re talking about here is just of incredible proportions. Where do you think the money you aim to accumulate is coming from? The more you arbitrarily accumulate, the more you take out of circulation for someone else and contribute to the ever widening economic gaps. Do you just have some arbitrary rich old guy as a role model for your life or what? Dude, just live your own life and be happy lol. You don’t need to sentence the rest of the planet to death just because you want to be supreme ruler or whatever lol.
10M+, enough to make a small difference in the world and invest in businesses and causes that create meaningful change. Enough to not worry about my own finances and to commit to my more meaningful passions. Enough to sort out my family who’ve always struggled. 10M+ is a lot for "average - something I’ve frankly never aspired to be! The work, the game, the drive, the big vision is part of what makes me happy. And supreme ruler? Seriously, that’s just petty. If you think supreme rulers have 10M dollars, you’re tragically misinformed; the “real” sharks are out there with trillions or multiple billions of dollars, and in the ocean of wealth, 10M is a small pond-sized reserve. I’m not here saying “I want this but it will make me unhappy and careless about life!”, which I’m sure you’re acutely aware of.
I guess you misread my comment entirely. I used the word “arbitrary” several times. It makes no difference if your goal be “10M+” or trillions, that’s entirely besides the point. And assuming that the world is just waiting and begging for you, of all people, to rise and invest and make the world a better place… Seriously… That’s one heck of a savior syndrome case you’ve got going on, not to mention just arrogance in general. If you want to make the world a better place, just do it. Saying someone else has trillions so excusing yourself of amassing billions or millions as “not being that bad,” what a joke. You yourself attempt so much to hide behind a mask of arbitrary ideals you’ve picked up from here or there, and yet all the while have no clue who or what you are.