Jordan Hill

I am currently a student at Francis Marion University who is majoring in accounting.I’m from a small town, about 30 minutes south of Charlotte, named Clover.Clover is where I gained the aspiration to become an accountant, due to how close I would be able to work and still be close to where I was initially raised. I intend to become begin a career as a CPA and eventually become a CFO.

Since I was 10, I have always desire to do something with business. My late mother,told me that when I begin looking into my future career, make sure it hassomething to do with food, money, or sickness, in order to create job security.I took heed to her words, and decided to pursue a career in business. It wasn’tuntil I reached high school that it dawned upon me to pursue a career inaccounting. In taking all of the business classes at my high school, I learnedthat I had away with numbers. Seeing as I was good with the numbers, accountingbecame enjoyable for me, which led me to declaring it as my major immediatelyupon entering college.

AsI've progressed from high school, I have had very little jobs dealing directly withthe bookkeeping aspect of accounting. However, every job I’ve had has relatedto the principles of accounting. For example, when I worked at Filtration, Iwas labeled as a packer. In packing I had to keep track of how many boxes andfilters were shipped out. With me aspiring to know the business of accounting,I asked the plant manager could I look at some of the books and the numbers of how things were handled. He allowed me to do so, and after we talked about the numbers he allowed me to help with inventory, in which I was able to talk with accounting auditors about the processes they go through on their job. My aspirations of working hard and doing more is what pushes me to in my pursuit of accounting.