While I am have been building my Virtual Bookkeeping business, a nagging thought has been to write about this subject: My personnel Ethics and Morals.
Lost Meaning of ‘Trust’ in Society
In today’s times the word ‘Trust’ and ‘Trust me’ are code red words that immediately trigger a Can’t trust anyone who say’s “Trust me” reaction thoughts. From childhood my highly ethical grandparents expected nothing less than ‘A man’s word’ meant everything from me. This started me on the path of being honest and trustworthy.
Disliked being a salesman.
Spending my youth being groomed for a lifelong career as a businessman/salesman, gave me the silver tongue of a great salesman. My ethics got in the way, I had to believe in the product, too really sell it. I found being salesman on the same level as a lawyer/politician/used car salesman/con-artist. My moral side did not enjoy talking people into buying a product with money they really can’t afford to spend. I have spent 7 years of my early life working in sales, Foleys, Radio shack. Personal favorite sales job was selling Ethel M Chocolate.
Background check will show.
I had taken a couple years of ‘Shotokan Karate’, a very violent ‘self-defense only style’ and decided on a career path of being a security officer. I sustained a ‘crimpled me for life knee injury’ and could not join the military or Dallas Police Department. The closest I could get to serving was to become a security officer. Looking me up for a background check will show nearly 2 decades was spent working posts all across entire D/FW Metroplex. I was going to grow old working in the security field, where I was one of the best and most trusted Security Officers in Dallas. I was trusted with property and people’s lives to keep safe. An accident in 2008 ended that career. Links to my Linked-in ‘Security Officer’ profile complete with security officer resume.
Nagging thought
The nagging thought has been how different security and bookkeeping are from each other. They could not be more different. While the core of both careers is built on ‘Trust’. Even with society’s coldness towards that word, there are jobs that require ‘Trust’ must mean something.
Accountant C.P.A. Ethics
Choosing a career in bookkeeping seemed far from my first career, like 2 different lifetimes. When I started down this path in January 2020 to earn a degree in accounting. Immediately every single Professor and class pushed that the field of accounting is paved in stone made from honesty. Accounting, as a field, holds itself to extremely high standards. I aced everything under the subject of ethics in college because it was on plain with the core of who I am. I fit in snug with the ethics of accountants.
Road to becoming a Bookkeeper.
I want to be upfront about this career path. I already possessed a Bachelor’s degree in accounting before hearing the first sales pitch is ‘no education needed’, the second is all is required is taking a bookkeeping course and advised to learn some type of accounting software. I wanted to have a degree because this industry is all about money. While making up my Excel ‘Client on-boarding’ forms. The loud thought was the information you need to provide to me, is the same information we only give our most inner circle. I will have access to client’s data and bank accounts just to be a bookkeeper. I thought from a client’s perspective, looking for a new bookkeeper. Who can you trust. See there is that word ‘Trust’ again. Needing bank accounts information made me think to add this page. I want my clients to feel safe trusting me, keeping people safe is what I am about.
Business Ethics class
Funny true story. During my second year of earning a degree, a counselor advised that I was required to take an Business Ethics class. This came to me as an insult, and I made it clear when classes began. Explaining to my professor and entire class that this class was beneath my own ethics. By the middle of the semester both had heard some of my life stories during class discussions on ethics, both my professor and classmates agreed that my ethics and morals are extremely high, actually above the level the books discussed. The more I talked the more people wanted to hear.