It was the middle of an economic crisis, I had no experience in accounting, but I could analyze it. I dummied down my resume to get an unpaid internship ... within 6 months I was a manager. With my driving ambition and now 5 top honors college degrees on my resume, I climbed the company ladder to financial controller within a few years. Oh, I got a human resources certificate along the way, figured I should know what I am doing. I mean Cali is the strictest of all 50 states and federal law, and they seem to change wage laws every 6 months lately.Coming from a woman that didn't set her life goals out to learn accounting either, but it is necessary, we will get through this together.