OK, she admits, there are a few accountants who look like that pocket-protector-wearing Milton schlep in "Office Space." But they are the exceptions.
"Accountants have to be social," she said. "They have to be people persons because there's nothing that we do that doesn't interact with people. It doesn't matter whether you're in private industry or public accounting, you have to function with other people."
It's a basic profile piece, but if you're wondering how other accountants juggle the demands of partnership and families, it has some good observations.
Her husband Sid, an insurance agent in Sioux City, has the more flexible, part-time job as a kind of "Mister Mom," a role they agreed on when she jumped on the partner track. His job simply gives him the flexibility to stay home with the kids ... but with the "kids" in college, high school and middle school now, that takes less time these days.
Her children have accepted her career choice, and she attends as many of their events as she can.
"Their response to my career choice is just that they don't see me as much," Shoemaker said. "But I think they value my choices."
"From a woman's perspective, though, the accounting profession offers tremendous flexibility," she said.
On sailing the wide accountancy [Sioux City Journal]
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