Dunning Kruger in Effect

Okay. Here's the thing. Remember when I said I went to college to study accounting? Probably, because it was just a paragraph ago. But that's what I'm getting at here. Accounting is a four year degree, minimum. Without an accounting degree, or an incredible bout of luck, the best you can hope for is being a bookkeeper. And in today's technologically advanced world, computers do most, if not all, of the bookkeeping for you. A bookkeeper takes down the data. An accountant interprets the data. A bookkeeper writes down where the money was spent and where it's coming from. An accountant prepares the income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and statement of retained earnings. At minimum. There's a shitton more to accounting than that, but if you're curious, that's where it starts. There's tax accounting. There's cost accounting. There's nonprofit accounting (like my dad does.)

And it's not just a four year degree. You can get a master's degree in accounting. Fuck, you can get a doctorate in accounting. But even if you don't, there's also the CPA license. A Certified Public Accountant is an accountant that has the ability and permission to perform audits. To become a CPA, you have to sit for a sixteen hour exam divided into four sections, and pass with at least a 64%. The exam is so difficult and specific that even people who just got their degree jump straight into an exam prep course. And that's just to get the license. You also have to maintain the license through continuing education. My father just got back from a week's conference that contributed to his CPE (Continuing Professional Education) hours. It was also a week's vacation on the beach with my mom, but still. That was after the day's scheduled presentations. It requires so much education that even accountants who never even intend to perform a single audit (like my dad) still get and maintain their CPA license because an employeer likes to know that you're that serious and that knowledgable in the field.

What I'm saying is, accounting isn't just a job that you "fall into" because your Plan A didn't work out, or you missed the window to follow your dreams. People are accountants on purpose. People go into university intending to spend the rest of their lives accounting. People do it because they enjoy it. Or, at least in the case of my dad, they want a stable, well-paying job (say, if they're starting a family that involves a beautiful and interesting daughter :P) that's fairly recession proof and they're not giving up a very specific dream to achieve that. And even then every accountant I've ever spoken to has stayed with it for more than a year becasue they find satisfaction in it. Or find they enjoy it when they honestly didn't expect to. Generally the kind of nerd that gets into accounting for whatever reason is the kind of nerd who stays with it. Accountants are huge fucking nerds who are obsessed with numbers. They don't even have to be good at math; a computer does all the math for them, they just have to know what the math means when it's all done.

Posts of the Fall: I don't know, that would be really long. We're talking, 30 minutes or so.

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Poets of the Fall: Well, all right, here you go [releases 30-minute complete version of Herald of Darkness]

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It's probably because I looked at the "lost episode" genre of creepypasta and said, "I don't find any of these tropes scary. What if I wrote a creepypasta full of things that actually unsettle me specifically?" And I think that's why it resonates with the few people who care. I wasn't using the trappings of horror to get a reaction out of people, I was exploring my personal discomforts and possibly those are shared by people who don't even realize it's something that unsettles them.