Is Accounting the Worlds Oldest Profession?
Come on — time to own up! Is the Profession actually the oldest Profession in the world? In every gathering of Accountants I’m asked to address, I always ask the question: “how many of us have clients we wish we didn’t have? Let’s see the hands.” I’ve never yet seen such a gathering with less than 99 out of every 100 hands up in the air (most of them held up in what you might call an enthusiastic way yet with another part of their anatomy also way up too — their eyes are literally in the top of their heads — as in “yes, I have them and what a drag it is.”) You know the clients they’re thinking of — the ones that don’t pay the bills, the ones that zap your energy rather than build it, the ones you simply don’t like being with; the list goes on and on. (Where are your eyes right now as you “own up”?) Or consider this: Imagine you could put the work you do into these 3 categories: 1. I really LOVE doing this type of work. 2. I can tolerate it. 3. If I’m brutally honest, I hate it. How muc
