My Journey and “the alchemist”

I was a Science teacher (Biology) for roughly 7 years. I did enjoy my time but I wanted to do something else, join the corporate world and meet more people. I wanted to learn more, form my character as I met diverse persons

Thoughts of moving into accounting didn’t last long in my mind because I thought
* Too late
* You’ll look confused
* You’ll look like an excited kid who thinks ACCA after a name is a big thing
* You’ll be making assumptions that You’ll quickly pick up a job
* You’ll even look ungrateful because ” you have a career as a teacher, others don’t even have a job)

All the above “thoughts” just felt like “feelings”, feelings I couldn’t dismiss.

My wife is an accountant but she hadn’t done ACCA. I was searching for info for her concerning the ACCA to encourage her to take up the challenge. This was sometime in 2016. At around 4am in the morning one day I was sitting on the floor with my laptop. I read this post by an opentuition moderator with a name “alchemist” and a big change happened!

Here’s the link to the post below…..

https://opentuition.com/topic/can-i-self-study-the-answer-is-yes/

He had a BSc. in Chemistry (I in Environmental Science), never had anything to do with Accounting (me too)

He was a teacher with long hours at work (me too)

He was even doing a Masters degree (me too)

He decided to move into accounting even while teaching and at the time I was reading that post, he was an affiliate.

There I decided that if he can do it then I can. I moved into accounting while still a teacher…..I needed the money coz I had a family…..I wrote my first ACCA exams in December 2016 at about 31 (age)……the funny part is that I kept meeting students I taught in secondary in ACCA exam halls! Some always looked at me in shock!

At first I thought Accounting was just number crunching but I learned it’s more. That’s how I got hooked. Even with that I still strained (Double entry didn’t even make sense at first). Here’s how it went

F1,F2,F4,F5,SBL,SBR,AAA — passed all at first attempt

F3,F7,F8,F9,–passed all at second attempt

F6- 3 attempts (why did I have to do UK Tax? Not sure)

AFM- 4 attempts

Sometimes I passed courses that my former students who even had BSc. in Accounting didn’t pass (funny right)….. I was probably just hungrier and didn’t have money to spare!

ACCA is not the most important thing on life but we can use ACCA as an opportunity to learn DISCIPLINE (everyone needs it to succeed)

I’m 35 now, an affiliate….you’re worried that by the time you finish ACCA after 3/4 years you’ll be 40? Well know that even if you don’t do ACCA in 3/4 years time you’ll still be 40 lol

I’ll write about my experience in every exam in a subsequent post.

For now, if you like this post then please help me connect with “the alchemist”. I need to say a personal thank you! Help me tag moderators and whoever to help me find the alchemist!

Thanks!