I started part-time Uni when I was 27. Went into Accounting. Why??? For some reason a lot of my office jobs tended to have some form of bookkeeping. In fact my first office job was with an IT company that wrote accounting software. I floated around from job to job, until I worked with a bunch of cows who were just admin girls and only ever going to be. I looked at that and thought no way, I can't do that and accounting seemed to fit my skill set. Also as a mature age student I needed to show industry experience.

It was not the best choice, even though it helped me get better work and I learnt a lot, corporate accounting in a large city and me are not what you can call a good "cultural fit". Looking back I should have just done a more general Bachelor of Business as I really enjoy all aspects of business, along with Accounting. I am more a small to medium business person, not the Big 4 accounting type. I tend to fit very well with IT businesses. Just wish they had done some personality testing as part of the enrolment process.

Funny enough, after 18 years I am back working for a small IT company that writes accounting software. Back full circle, but with a whole lot of life and work experience under my belt.