Kelsey's+career+day+at+the+Mac+center

Our fifth grade classes at Hoover Elementary went to the MAC center for career day. I went to several classes but one that really jumped out at me was accounting.

When I walked in through the doors of room 28, wich is accounting, I saw a jar of gumballs. The lady told me to put my "first and last name and guess how many gumballs are in the jar and I guessed 109. Then once the innercom told the staff cto start talking they told us who the winner of thejar of gumballs was and it was me! She said "there was really 111, so you were the closest." So I got to keep the jar of gumballs, now that was the highlight of my day.

Then the ladies started talking and there was a slide show. And the first page was about what accounting has involved in it. Like loads of math; useing caculators, adding up numbers and a lot of other stuff. It also has solving puzzles; depends what type of accontng you go into, and other stuff.

Now types of accounting. when you choose what type of acccounting you want to go into is what is involved in the job. One type is accounting another one is where you can add up taxes for other people or if you can work for a buisness and add up the buisness's taxes. Beware because you are going to be pretty fast at adding numbers. So it's your decision because it relies on what you like to do.

To end our exiting session the ladies topped it off with a caculator race. They handed me a piece of paper with a bunch of numbers and you had to add them up but.... this was a race, so you had to add the numbers on the sheet of paper up as fast as you can. When I was done adding the numbers up I said "I'm done", but I said that probably one second after another kid did. So I got second place out of three people.

Last I want to thank you so much for helping me choose my career when I get older. Because that is a big part in your life. when I went home after school I really thought that accounting was going to be my job when I grow up.