Hello, You're doing all the right things to prepare yourself for your new career. Having banking and insurance experience is often more valuable than book learning, so don't discount your experience verses the educational aspect of your knowledge. If I was an accounting manager, I'd hire you in a second. Also your work in childcare shows perseverance and patience, so don't leave that off your resume. Just between you and I, some of us employees can be very childish when we're unhappy with our pay scale. Rather indicate to a prospective enployer your ability to explain in simple terms and encourage people who have limited understanding of finances and remuneration. For those of us who've visited a company accounting department, we need to be able to talk to a person who's knowledgeable, yet able to put things in simple terms. Most of all, I want to wish you the very best in your job search. While things are a little slow right now, we'll all get through this and hopefully you'll be the accounting person we'll get to talk to.