Worked as an Accountant. Those

¶ … worked as an accountant. Those thirteen years have taught me more than how to work with numbers. They have also taught me that behind every tax form is a human face, and the individual nature of every client and every organization's financial needs. Of course, most people who come to an accountant's office wishes to maximize his or her organization's profits, or minimize his or her contribution to the IRS, or at the very least deploy his or her financial profile in the most creative and fruitful fashion possible. All clients, for the most part, have rational economic goals, which it is the accountant's professional responsibility to facilitate in the most ethical and efficient fashion possible. But these goals vary from organization to organization, and individual to individual, and an accountant must be cognizant of these differences, in the service of his or her client, as well as to be versed in the protocols of the profession.

Thus, my work has not simply sharpened within me the weighty responsibilities of working in the real world, and the need to maintain a strong code of ethics and commitment to my clients, who depend upon my basis of expertise as a fount of professional advice and expertise. It has taught be about my profession in general, namely that accountancy is partly psychology, partly about a talent working with numbers, and also requires the accountant to learn from the business world and to keep an eye on the development of the larger economic environment. One must be in a constant state of learning, to be a good accountant. One learns as well as aids every client that walks through the door.

I wish to gain my MBA to enhance my own educational experience, of course, and to expand my professional credentials, ultimately with the aim of taking my CPA exam after graduation. But I see getting an MBA not simply as adding another bullet point to the list of educational attributes beneath my name on a resume. After learning so much from the business world, I wish to add to that learning with the more formally acquired skills of the classroom. I also wish to learn from my fellow MBA students, and to embark more upon team projects, sharing my work and life skills as all of us work hard, together, to succeed. I am interested to sample from a diversity of experiences within the business world, of different business spheres, from the examples, skills, and professional experiences and aspirations of my classmates.

An MBA is an unusual graduate degree, in that it attempts to take individuals from the job market, often whom have, like myself, been employed at professional occupations, and by giving them an academic orientation and grounding in certain intellectual skills and rubrics. It also encourages candidates to bring their pre-existing skills, experiences, and attributes to the program to enhance the education others as well as to be focused and channeled into better making use of one's own ultimate goal, the attainment of a degree in business administration.