Take Your Kid To Work Day 2018

Name of Host: Caroline Li 

Relationship to you: Parent

The Interview

1. What is your job title: Accountant
2. What is your job description: Accountants normally look at a company or group’s financial statistics, and then sort and organize them.
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job: The normal duties and tasks of an accountant are reporting on the financial situations in the company and/or group. In summary, they do financial reporting and taxation.
4. a) Training: Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) – b) Education: Masters Degree in English (from China), Masters Degree in Business Administration (from USA) – c) Experience: 20+ years – D) skills and attributes: Good at paying attention to small details.
5. What are you some of the things you like about the job: Calculating with numbers is fun, as there is always a different answer to the equation.
6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job: Because accounting is mostly related around numbers, it’s sometimes repetitive.
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years: Unlike other jobs that change along with technology, accounting is based mostly on calculating figures, which shouldn’t change in the next coming years.

Student Reflections:

1. Give three reasons why you would like this job: a) Accounting is more logically inclined, meaning it fits how I use critical thinking the most. b) There’s not much physical activity, as I want a relaxing and not intensive job. c) In the workplace, it’s normally very quiet.
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job: a) Could be repetitive, as I’m doing calculations for the whole day. b) I’d be staring at a screen for long hours without moving around much. c) A quiet workplace is good, but always quiet is not that good. Limited interaction is something that I don’t really like.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not: I do not think this job is for me, as I do not like the idea of doing calculations all day, and having limited interactions with my co-workers.
4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?): The TYKTW gives me a good idea of what I want in a work place, as well as broadens my horizons on how a company and each employee works.