Any accountants around - what's the good and the bad about the job?

[Mog]

I'm a career changer and have, much to my surprise, got a job as a finance assistant and am thinking of whether to go for AAT or proper accountancy qualifications. Obviously to go for full on training I have to really mean it so what are the good and bad aspects to the job.
I was a scientist in pre baby life and what I like about accountancy now is the kind of orderliness of it (have 3 children at home so it's quite nice to sit in an office with a coffee and create order). Also like the problem solving, chance to do mini projects, the black or white solutions to things etc.
What are experiences, good and bad, of the job on a day to day basis?

SORRY, in my OP I meant to say AAT or full blown accountancy qualificaton. I think AAT is a great qualificaton - misused the word 'proper'.

yeah yeah

which qualification you should do will depend on what you want to end up doing. If like me you want to stick to basic stuff then aat is all you'll need. If you want to be a manager/partner etc in an accountancy firm then you'd have to do acca/aca or similar. There are others too like CIMA(managment accountant) and others which I cannot recall

How long have you been doing the finance job? Might be worth doing the job for a few months before you start off with any qualifications incase you hate it and will have wasted time/money on the qualification