It's Never Too Late to Follow Your Dreams

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Sylvia is a seasoned HR professional who wonders if it's ridiculous to pursue her original dream of becoming a CPA. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Sylvia, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Yes, hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for taking my call.
0:17.5	You're welcome.
0:18.5	How can I help?
0:20.3	Yes.
0:29.4	So I wanted to, I was just asking the question in regards to, I'm thinking about going back to school after 50.
0:36.4	And I currently have my undergrad. And I've been, I have over.
0:39.7	What do you want to go back to school to study?
0:48.4	I want to go back to school to study accounting, which I have about 16 years of accounting experience, and I'm right now utilizing...
0:51.3	Well, then, why do you have to go to school?
0:53.3	You know more than the teachers.
0:57.3	Well, that's my dilemma.
1:00.0	I've been operating from the HR perspective for the last seven years.
1:05.7	And I guess why I'm thinking about going back is I never got that that bachelor's degree in accounting
1:13.3	and my degree is in business management and so my thought was what is it you want to get a job doing
1:23.5	I would like to get a job as a controller or an accounting manager.
1:30.3	And what I'm seeing is in terms of qualifications, they are looking for that accounting degree
1:38.3	in most cases or that CPA license. And so that has kind of left me with, one, the fact that I have not been
1:47.9	in the industry for quite some time thinking about going back to school. And then two, in order to
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