Benjamin Franklin said there were only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Life is what you choose to do in between those inevitabilities. I tell you what they don’t teach you in school — or, if they do, I wasn’t paying attention — is that life is a pretty long stretch that, I’m told, passes you by pretty quickly, in hindsight.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I had no real idea of what I wanted to do with myself after high school, but went on to the requisite university degree — Accounting and Economics, if you must know — at the urging of my uncharacteristically cool and charismatic accounting teacher. I might have ended up working in the corporate world, if not for a pure stroke…
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NZV8 (Digital) - 1 Issue, No 162 November 2018