Hi guys. I wanted to introduce myself and see if anyone is feeling the same as me. I am a 36-year-old single mother of a 16 year old. I graduated high school in 97 and first went to college in 2008 for a year. I recently started back up this past spring and am ending my 3rd semester back shortly. I am majoring in accounting and am having trouble with my class.
To give a little background of this semester, I am also taking a business law class, which I did awesome in and ended the class with a 97%. My professor was great and explained things really well, thankfully, because I didn’t have to study but for a few hours before his classes and hardly read any chapters.
I was also taking a math class. My professor in that class was terrible. He would give us his life lessons and barely teach the entire 2 hours of class. The quizzes were always 4 questions and the tests were always 10 questions, so it didn’t leave room to make any mistakes, and they were ultimately harder than what we were taught/what we learned with homework.
Also, homework for each section was always due days after the quizzes and tests. I was failing every single quiz and test, so I dropped it. I have a 3.4 gpa and didn’t want it to significantly drop. Anyway, before I dropped, I was spending HOURS trying to teach myself the math (intermediate algebra) and was still failing, but by working so much on trying to learn the math, I got far behind in my accounting class, reading wise.
This upcoming week is our last week of class, and I have only read between 2-3 chapters total. With that, I have gotten a 75% on all tests, except one I failed due to some personal problems I was having and couldn’t concentrate/study for that test. Homework I have an A in (I just use the sheets we get in class since the problems are similar, so I basically just follow what we did in class to enter everything in for the homework), I did well on our big comprehensive problem, and I did the extra credit and received almost full points.
I truly want to become an accountant, as it is a good stable job that pays well. I do not have a passion for it though and it sometimes seems boring to me. However, I used to do light bookkeeping at my current job, and I loved it when all the numbers added up/matched. That was such a good feeling. I am worried, though, that I am not cut out for this, as I still don’t understand a lot of the concepts. I am worried about all the formulas that I assume I will have to memorize and worried I will not know when to use them/to use which formulas if I get an accountant job. I am going for private accounting.
I wonder also if there will be people to help me in jobs, and I wonder if any accountants out there struggled in school, but are now doing great in that field?
Signed,
Ready to cry