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Max Gomez is a staff accountant in Weiss’ tax department. He attended Oregon State University (OSU) on academic and wrestling scholarships and majored in accounting. He thought he might pursue law school but was instead inspired to become an accountant after working with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. He loved working with his…
Shortly before my last year of high school, I was trying to figure out which elective courses I would take for senior year. I’d always enjoyed my math classes, so after talking it over with my parents I decided to take an accounting course. I thoroughly enjoyed the class, so much so that I finished…
I grew up in northwest suburban Hanover Park, and when I was in high school there I took a placement test to see what careers would suit me best. One of the results was actuary, which was interesting since math wasn’t my strong suit, or so I thought. Then I took a few accounting classes…
My parents are both CPAs, and my brother majored in accounting, so it wasn’t a surprise when I followed suit and took an accounting class in high school. At first, my parents thought I was crazy. “You see how much we work and what we go through?” they said. But I really liked accounting, and…
My family immigrated here 10 years ago from India. Originally, I did not plan to become an accountant; I was thinking of medicine or engineering. But when my father retired, I needed to be the sole bread winner for my family. So I went to Northeastern Illinois University and majored in management, and worked full-time…
I was born in Mexico and moved to Palatine when I was 12. I got an accounting degree from University of Illinois at Chicago – I was the first in my family to graduate from college. I wasn’t sure what type of accounting I wanted to do. I thought audit, but when I got an…
I grew up on a hobby farm in Wisconsin, but I decided to double major in economics and accounting at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. When I graduated in 2014, I started working at a bigger accounting firm. I found I didn’t like to be pigeonholed into one area – focusing specifically on taxes for manufacturing properties…
