EncourageYou!

This week I finished a Fantasy Camp for Certified Public Accountants. CPA Fantasy Camp is when a very smart but average guy like me gets to interview at a top 10 CPA firm. To better understand what I'm trying to explain, here's a little compare/contrast:

Think of sports fantasy camps. You get to go to sort of like a vacation, wear an authentic team uniform, and hang out with cool atheletes who are much better than you. In CPA Fantasy Camp, I got to wear a real accountant's uniform, including the white shirt and red tie, go to a real accounting firm office (very nice) and hang out with other CPAs who are much smarter than I. We talked about accounting stuff, went to a power lunch, and for a while I got to dream about really working for them. In total, phone interviews, office interviews, getting suits and ties out of the unused corners of my closet, and research/practice in between covered almost the entire month of August.

In real life, I have an accounting degree from Manchester College (Indiana), a CPA license, and membership in Mensa. Currently I am working with my wife's parents to grow our family business. In addition to our retail bakery www.crawfordsbakery.com, we make make private label wholesale bakery products. We work hard, including Saturdays, and usually split our time between administrative leadership and hard production. We work for a living.

The hang up is that I have a lot of skills, intelligence, and ambition, but not enough specific experience they are looking for at this moment. So, I fell just a little bit short in my quest, for now, but now that Camp is over, I can return to helping our family reach our mutual goal of prospering our bakery. I can also go back to preparing to teach Sunday School, a new year kicks off September 17th. It was like a dream, and now that I'm called to prosper right where I am, I can get back to business.