<p>Keely,</p>
<p>I like your practicality. Choose a path that provides solid career and decent salary, and look for upside in it. For example, start in public accounting, and look for opportunities down the road for partnership or CFO at a customer. Or start in Finance/banking and look for invoestment banking or PE down the road, or CFO/Treasurer.<br>
Dealing with clients is the interesting part part of accounting, managing the relationship and winning new business.</p>