Five times 15.
Good evening.
Oh, hey.
So I spent three years at university studying accounting and finance.
I graduated with a first class,
got prepared for interviews to the delight of my parents, as you can see here.
And then I told them that I found out that my true calling was to be a poet.
I'll take you a step back.
I'd chosen accounting and finance for two reasons.
One, the career prospects.
I had no idea what it meant to be a writer as a profession.
Writing for me, was more of a hobby.
And as a teenager, I was timid and uncertain about who I was.
And like most of us, how we feel internally reflects now outward decisions.
So I picked a course that gave me a semblance of certainty.
Accounting and finance was very clear in its career progression to becoming qualified chartered.
And also the pay was clear.
The second reason I picked accounting and finance was
because I loved maths and I saw accountants as investigators of numbers.
So it seemed like the perfect marriage between my love for numbers and my inquisitive nature.