My passion and how it relates to the work of Annie Cannon

My passion is accounting. I am currently taking an accounting class and I put every effort into it-sometimes too much. Accounting is fairly easy, but if you make one mistake it can take hours to find it and correct it. I have done this countless times and it frustrates me to the point where I begin to think about changing my major. When I get to this point I want to give up and do something easier, but I’ve been told things in life don’t come easy. This is also true for the theorist Annie Jump Cannon. She was very intelligent for a woman of her time, but because she was a woman, she was not treated fairly and people continued to discriminate against her. She continued to take classes and study astronomy to help her gain knowledge and respect from her well known peers. Though it took her years to get a worthy job, she never gave up. All her hard work eventually paid off; in 1896 she was hired as Edward C. Pickering’s assistant at the Harvard observatory. By 1907 she had received an M.A. from Wellesley. Through all her hardships and difficult times, Annie never gave up and continued to do what she loved, not because she wanted to be recognized for it, but because she had such a passion for it that she knew someday people would appreciate her work. It may seem that accountants sit at their desk all day and play around with numbers, but there is much more work to it than that. I am only beginning to realize how much effort I am going to have to put into the beginning stage of my career, but thankfully I can look to my godfather for advice and guidance later in life.