Thread:User talk:PeterL/Computer Science/reply (27)

I'm a little bit jealous of you guys, because if I didn't have to worry about making a living, I'd be a writer. Of fiction, nonfiction, anything; I fucking love writing.

As it is, I settled on accounting. And before you think I'm selling out my dreams, there are actually two reasons I settled on accounting: Firstly, I, bizarrely, enjoy office work. My first and only paying job was at the county elections office during the 2008 Presidential election, and I fell in love with organizing things and filling out paperwork. I could lose myself in the glorious tediousness of it all. (Yes, I am weird.) Unfortunately, secretarial work doesn't pay very much, but accounting is basically office work with a four-year degree. Which brings me to reason number two: I actually enjoy working with numbers. My favorite part of RPGs is playing with the stats, and when I thought of accounting, I realized, "Wait, I can get paid to shuffle numbers around all day?" Thus, my current major.