Lethargy
09 09 10 - 13:13 Category: .
I think I finally figured out why I'm tired of studying for the CPA exam and have sub-zero motivation leading up to my (hopefully) final test. I am sick and tired of word problems.
I like the application of my work. Outside of some annoying elements to auditing, doing the work is enjoyable. Public accounting is pretty much tieing things together from source documents through to tax returns or financial statements. It's prooving that the numbers are fair representations. I like doing that. It's like computerized strings connecting things on a bulletin board.
What I don't like, and after five and a half months of dealing with it I really don't like, is sitting and doing word problems. I'm tired of learning how to figure out what the phrasing is asking, rather than what the content is. I stop and write a blog post when I hit a beefy paragraph problem because I'd just rather avoid it.
It's an odd differentiation that probably doesn't make sense. I guess it's kind of like how I don't mind work, but I don't like getting to work. After 26 sessions, 18 hours and 49 minutes of studying, and 412 multiple choice questions, I finally got my study software to the point were it starts reviewing questions instead of feeding me new ones.
One more test to go... just one more...