I wanted to be a great wizard like Merlin, Gandalf or Radagast. I still think that was more reasonable than my granddaughter’s desire to grow up to be a vampire.
Like many young boys, I wanted to be an astronaut. I went so far as to attend a military academy. Unfortunately, that was about the time when being a military pilot was no longer a qualification. It would have been better to go to that good university that offered me honors-at-entrance and get a couple of advanced science degrees. Maybe next time. :)
When my Nephew, (at about 3yrs. old) told me he wanted to be a garbage collector, I relayed it to my Sister. She said,“That’s good, last week he wanted to be a potato bug.”
When I was young I wanted to be an accountant. My dad was an accountant – he met my mom in an accounting class. Maternal grandmother was a bookkeeper.
I actually used to play with old blank tax forms as a child – I was told I could have any of them from a prior year. When I was 12 I started adding up payroll books for dad and helping him make copies. (Copy machine – one fed in the original and the paper it was to be copied onto into top slot – green light came on in the machine and the 2 pages came out. The blank looking page that had the photo of the printed page, then was placed into the second slot and it ran through the developing liquid. It came out wet and I would hang up the pages to dry. My how the world has changed – I can scan, copy, print, fax from one machine and all copies are dry!
So now, I am on the dying end of two accounting practices. (I worked for someone other than dad for awhile and he retired and I got his practice before dad died and I got his practice also.) I have a handful of clients left an that is just enough to me keep from going crazy. At one time we had clients who lived in 4 or 5 different U.S. States, France, Canada and New Zealand. Now I am down to 3 states and nowhere else.
I had a problem this past tax season that a client (average age of my clients is probably somewhere in their 80s) was ill and I had to file an extension for her and same was a form which needed to filed online. I spoke to a state tax employee – I could not file the form as I am not her and she does not a computer at all. The employee told me that my tax software should be setup for me to be able to file it online for her. I explained that I don’t have any tax software. She was shocked – ’How do you do the returns?". The concept that I did them by hand seemed to shock her.
I like the idea that things have to add up. If I add them twice and they don’t – I know something has to be fixed.
twstd over 1 year ago
He found the secret formula
Gizmo Cat over 1 year ago
I wanted to be a pilote, never happened. Now I just want to be healthy and happy.
dlkrueger33 over 1 year ago
Me, too! Only I think it’s too late to start….I’m probably Grandpa’s age. (Just had my 5th grandchild yesterday!)
DM2860 over 1 year ago
I wanted to be a great wizard like Merlin, Gandalf or Radagast. I still think that was more reasonable than my granddaughter’s desire to grow up to be a vampire.
KEA over 1 year ago
I’m just glad i never “grew up”
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
Like many young boys, I wanted to be an astronaut. I went so far as to attend a military academy. Unfortunately, that was about the time when being a military pilot was no longer a qualification. It would have been better to go to that good university that offered me honors-at-entrance and get a couple of advanced science degrees. Maybe next time. :)
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
Thus skipping over the hard work part.
DDrazen over 1 year ago
“You can be a millionaire, and never pay taxes again! Step 1: Make a million dollars.” Steve Martin
christelisbetty over 1 year ago
When my Nephew, (at about 3yrs. old) told me he wanted to be a garbage collector, I relayed it to my Sister. She said,“That’s good, last week he wanted to be a potato bug.”
mafastore over 1 year ago
When I was young I wanted to be an accountant. My dad was an accountant – he met my mom in an accounting class. Maternal grandmother was a bookkeeper.
I actually used to play with old blank tax forms as a child – I was told I could have any of them from a prior year. When I was 12 I started adding up payroll books for dad and helping him make copies. (Copy machine – one fed in the original and the paper it was to be copied onto into top slot – green light came on in the machine and the 2 pages came out. The blank looking page that had the photo of the printed page, then was placed into the second slot and it ran through the developing liquid. It came out wet and I would hang up the pages to dry. My how the world has changed – I can scan, copy, print, fax from one machine and all copies are dry!
So now, I am on the dying end of two accounting practices. (I worked for someone other than dad for awhile and he retired and I got his practice before dad died and I got his practice also.) I have a handful of clients left an that is just enough to me keep from going crazy. At one time we had clients who lived in 4 or 5 different U.S. States, France, Canada and New Zealand. Now I am down to 3 states and nowhere else.
I had a problem this past tax season that a client (average age of my clients is probably somewhere in their 80s) was ill and I had to file an extension for her and same was a form which needed to filed online. I spoke to a state tax employee – I could not file the form as I am not her and she does not a computer at all. The employee told me that my tax software should be setup for me to be able to file it online for her. I explained that I don’t have any tax software. She was shocked – ’How do you do the returns?". The concept that I did them by hand seemed to shock her.
I like the idea that things have to add up. If I add them twice and they don’t – I know something has to be fixed.