Once upon a time, a fresh graduate accountant visited an old friend of his dad (I will call him Mr. Z) seeking guidance with his next step, the very first job step.Mr. Z was a close friend of the family and an ex-Accountant.

During the visit, Mr. Z asked the accountant two important small questions. Later on and with the passing of years, those two questions turned out to be the sparkling light that boomed the accountant's life.

Mr. Z without giving any chance for an answer started his unforgettable speech,We will call it "The mass destruction and demotivating speech". He said:" I need to tell you that accounting is so boring, you are going to drown in numbers, calculation, and reconciliations…….numbers and number(s) and numbers . that is all what accounting is about." He added: "Salary for a fresh accountant is among the minimum categories for bachelor holders like yours. "He continued talking and one and only one message was clearly being delivered throughout the talk: your choice and decision was wrong, probably horrible and you soon will suffer or not work in your domain of study.

He gave the accountant the chance to answer the second question as if he felt that he has no answer for it, and he was right, the accountant did not even know what is a JV so how would he know how to write it!He then finished his speech and destroyed any remaining hope left for the accountant and said: "No one will hire an accountant who doesn't know what is a JV and how to write it".

The story didnot finish here, on his way back home he met another two friends, this time they were not old but they were engineers. Question number one "Q1" was directly asked after the greeting. It was like lets "Attack Accounting" day and there is a war on accountants. They said:" there is a very high competition in this domain and due to that their salaries are the minimum; and if you do not get an MBA or CPA or one of the certifications with a big "A" at the end, you will end up jobless for the rest of your life.

The accountant went home after these two attacks, he didnot defend himself during the two rounds of attack as he was still young, fresh, and not ready for such discussions; nor he felt offended. At that time he just wanted one thing: to know what is a JV?

At that time, there was not any easy access to Google to ask; So,he went to his dictionary and it was easy to know that a JV was just the journal voucher that he was very familiar with but it could be the abbreviation or could be the first round of Q1 "Accounting Attack" that made him completely lost.

Knowing and believing that accounting is not boring, and not knowing an answer for an easy question is not the end of the world; on that day the accountant decided that the day to prove them all wrong is soon and if you are a loser or not doing well in your career that will not necessarily mean that the domain is boring or with no future development. It is only you and the way you look at what you do and how you look forward to get better, develop your skills, and advance your career and life that count and matter. Accounting is not boring and the boring calculator machine(that's how Mr. Z named it) turned out to be a piano that can play very soft music, it is not a metaphor and it is real and can be proved and showed.

It also reminded me of another story of a taxi driver. This taxi driver loved his work so much to the limit that he considered his job as one of the best in the world. Over the years, he built up very good, loyal, and well-paying client-base (passengers) which made it for easy for him to make the income he was looking forward to make and much more.

The trick to achieve all of that was simple and easy and anyone can have similar success regardless of the job he is doing, it is:"Love and enjoy your (right) job". When going to pick up his clients he is always on time, clean well dressed and shaved, the door is opened with smile and closed with a smile in a nice way. Everyone in place with seat belts, the driver then offers hot coffee or tea to be served from the thermos in the designated area, cold water is in the under-arm compartment, a newspaper, sports magazine, economic magazine are also available.

No need to continue and no need to mention how much his charge was compared to other taxis whomwe may have faced in our lives, it was definitely much more with a big tip and guaranteed future reservation.

Once upon another time, the accountant met one of his schoolmates (We will call him Mr. B). After having the normal welcoming and greeting they jumped to the next most asked question: What do you do in life? What is your specialty?Mr.B answered that he is an engineer and the accountant is an accountant.

Couple days after that they met again in a beauty center, the accountant asked Mr. B about the center:" is it a good center and are you waiting your appointment?" Mr. B answered: "I work here, I am the Hair Engineer".

For the first glance, you may think that this story is a joke, fictional or maybe Mr. B was ashamed of his career. Well, I can assure you that he was not, this was exactly how he was seeing himself and his job and dealing with it on that basis