When I graduated from architecture school, I only had three goals ... none of which included the words "accounting" in them.

On my next birthday, I will celebrate 49 successful years of surviving my yearly journey around a 1.392 million kilometer ball of hot plasma that burns at a temperature exceeding 10,340°F … more commonly known as the sun. In addition, I have been out of college and in the field of architecture for 24 years, 6 months, and 14 days, and a licensed architect for 14 years, 2 months and 3 days … and this weekend, for the first time ever, I worked on determining the utilization rate of my employees and billing efficiency of the projects that those same employees work on day in and day out.Can you tell I’ve got numbers on my mind"So. All weekend working on accounting. I did not like it … but I didn’t hate it either. When I graduated from college with my 5-year professional degree in architecture, I only had three goals, (for the full version, go here – very inspirational) but for those who don’t want to sort through all that, here is the abridged version of those oh-so-important life goals:It?s been over twenty years since I graduated from UT and if you had asked me then where I thought I would be in twenty years, I don?t think I would have had an answer for you. I only had three goals when I graduated; the first was that I wanted to make $100,000 a year. I chose that number because it seemed outrage...