I'm an accounting student now, currently still in pursuit of an associates until I move on from there. I'd like to get a foot in the door with just basic office work. Anything, so long as it's vaguely related to accounting as I need a part-time job while I study. I mean, ideally I'd land a paid internship at a company in finance or accounting or something. So, I have two questions:
1. What are some of the most useful skills I could acquire immediately that would make me somewhat economically viable? A typing course and certification of some kind I could knock out in a few months? I'm already planning on taking all my tech courses next semester - accounting software, spreadsheets and databases. But that's a bit far away. I also don't have any experience handling cash on the job, so I can't even be a bank teller.
2. What's a good way to get my foot in the door without a completed degree? In anything? I went to a job fair at school and did get a bunch of information that looked really promising, but, alas, I'm starting to run into dead-ends. State, local and federal jobs seem the most promising, I've just got to keep an eye out for appropriate listing when they appear. There's also hotel night clerk that would involve some accounting entries during the night - a great opportunity, but doing so would mean that I'd have to sleep in two shifts a day of four hours each to make it work with my schedule. I'm really not sure what that'd do to my body, but I have indeed heard of it before.
1. What are some of the most useful skills I could acquire immediately that would make me somewhat economically viable? A typing course and certification of some kind I could knock out in a few months? I'm already planning on taking all my tech courses next semester - accounting software, spreadsheets and databases. But that's a bit far away. I also don't have any experience handling cash on the job, so I can't even be a bank teller.
2. What's a good way to get my foot in the door without a completed degree? In anything? I went to a job fair at school and did get a bunch of information that looked really promising, but, alas, I'm starting to run into dead-ends. State, local and federal jobs seem the most promising, I've just got to keep an eye out for appropriate listing when they appear. There's also hotel night clerk that would involve some accounting entries during the night - a great opportunity, but doing so would mean that I'd have to sleep in two shifts a day of four hours each to make it work with my schedule. I'm really not sure what that'd do to my body, but I have indeed heard of it before.
