Steven Hilton - Future CPA or guy with a personality?

If I like three non-gospel related things in this world, they are chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, myself, and attention. So, I decided to create a blog. And I can think of no better topic to launch off this blog than the topic that dominates my life from the months of September to April of every school year . . . the topic of accounting.

People who have asked me what I want to be when I grow up have gotten a wide variety of different answers throughout the years. In kindergarten, I told my teacher that I wanted to be a dinosaur. Some jerk must have squashed that dream, because by the time I reached first grade, I had decided to be a power ranger. From there, I dreamed of being a major league baseball player, an author, a professional basketball or football player, an astronaut, and a pokemon trainer. Now, I haven't really ruled out any of these, but at the moment, I am pursuing the glorified path of the CPA, or Certified Public Accountant.

One day, while doing homework in my college dorm room, I got a call from my mother. From previous experience, I knew that if I didn't answer, my mother would call some poor BYU employee up and yell at him for not knowing where I am and not having curfews and bedchecks, so I answered. "Steve," she said, "I just talked to your Uncle Rick, and he says that accounting is really boring." She then proceeded to lecture me for thirty minutes about whether I wanted to be a boring person. The same mother who had lectured me as a kid that I was "putting all my eggs in one basket" in regards to my dream of being a professional baseball player was now lecturing me about picking the most stable career on the market.

It's a few years later and I am now a first-year masters student in the number one accounting program in the country . . . maybe even the universe. Is accounting boring? Heck yes! I'm actually considering relocating my bed to the tanner building. With the boring nature of classes and the seven plus hours of homework every night, I get a lot more sleep in my accounting classes than I ever do at home.

So, why do I do it then? Well, I do it mostly for the ladies. I also do it because its a solid foundation for any future career in business, its a field in constant demand even in a tough economy, and because maybe I like depreciation, fraud detection, and income taxes . . . but mostly, I do it for the ladies. And even though I've chosen accounting as my field of study, I'm constantly trying to keep my options open. I still plan on writing a book, and who knows, maybe one day I'll even become a dinosaur. The only difference is that any book I write now will probably be about accelerated cost recovery rather than wizards and magic.

In regards to the question posed in the title, you'll have to decide for yourself, but I'd like to think the answer is yes.