I am curious to know, what was everyone's first job/role in finance? What did you all learn from it that you still use today?!

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I started in tax preparation, and what I learned from that, people never have black and white situations. Book learning is one thing, and applying it to real-life scenarios is entirely different.

100%, I feel like that can be applied in so many areas, even outside of finance.

I started as a book keeper for a property manager. I learned a lot about taxes, and it was my first introduction to Excel back in 2013.

Ahh nice! It's lovely to look back and see how far you have come from where we all started

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