"(Fill-in-the-blank) is like riding a bicycle."
The reason given is some variation of:
"Once you learn, you never forget", or
"It's all about keeping your balance."
The second reason might apply to this profession:
I have to admit, it never occurred to me to compare accounting to riding a bicycle because, honestly, I know nothing about accounting. Oh, I considered it as my life's work for about ten minutes because people suggested it would be a "nice, stable career." Well, I took a class--called Introduction to Pre-Accounting, or some such thing--as a senior in high school because I had fulfilled my core requirements and had to fill a time slot in my class schedule with something.
That class quickly disabused me of any desire to look at rows and columns all day (Remember, this was before computers and spreadsheets!) and, beyond having used the services of accountants, I've had no other contact with the profession. So I'll believe what's on that mug, even if I don't quite understand the comparison.
(If any of you are accountants, I mean no disrespect.
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