financegeek

I'm a tech geek who didn't know what to do in college and got talked into going the easy route and studying Accounting for a guaranteed job after graduation (this was after Enron failed and accounting was briefly considered "sexy"). I worked as a programmer for my university job and took some basic CS. I really miss the creativity of creating something and wish that I had studied CS, engineering, or a hard science. I liked my job when there was still some mystery, but I've gotten to the point where I'm looking for the next intellectual challenge. Since I have a masters in accounting and that is where my job experience is, I'm afraid that it will be hard to change careers into something more fitting my personality. I'm thinking of going to school for an MBA in entrepreneurship and starting over, but wanted to get some advice. I'm pretty tired of just being a cog in the corporate machine and would like to feel like I'm contributing something to society/humanity. Perhaps a socially conscious start-up? I do also have non-profit and international experience. My former boss said I should get back into programming so I could be making things again. Thoughts?