A friend of mine is an avid baker. It started out as an innocent hobby. She has a sweet tooth and wanted to know how to make the sweet treats she always wanted to eat. So she took a baking class and from there baked on her free time as she was an accountant in a finance firm at that time. Since she would always bake in large amounts, she started giving excess sweet treats to friends and relatives and would give them as gifts from time. Her friends loved it and started recommending her to friends and encouraged her to make it into a business. She didn’t need any advertising as her network was enough to give her many orders. Word of mouth and her free samples were enough. Soon enough she was swamped and baking in her spare time just wouldn’t do.

Now she bakes five days a week and now just has a private practice as an accountant and works with Accounting Principals finance recruiting as a consultant. It is still her first love (she is extremely good at math!) and she doesn’t have any plans in retiring or putting a stop to her practice. She said that accounting is an integral part in any industry. It translates numbers and shows how businesses are doing and what areas need to be focused on, revamped or even scraped. You can be a public accountant, CPA, or even become like her, private industry accountants. Accounting can include a regular day at the office or it can be traveling to different companies to audit or even seven-day work weeks.