Book Keeping/accounting and stress

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I thought about learning book keeping as it seems to be an aging demographic with shortages of staff. Every business needs its books kept. But as I visualised it, I had a nightmare of people handing over their receipts and paperwork and such, then finding bits missing. I can't think of what to do if there's stuff that they can't find. So it doesn't balance. And my business as bookmaker succeeds or fails on my ability to make it all 'all-right' in the end.

Missing info just seems like stress waiting to happen.

On the other hand, I spose there would have to be more to it than straight data entry.

Any book keepers here care to share how they'd deal with situations where there's holes in their clients records?

There are bookkeeping jobs that wouldn't be like that. What about a job in accounts payable? All you're really doing is paying the company's bills. I have a degree in accounting and loved the work, but didn't get along with my co-workers probably because the entire accounting department was women. I got along with the engineers at the firm just fine.

I am a college graduate (48 yrs old) with two BAs in fields too "social" for me to handle.
I need to find a job that is common for my area and that would be less "people" oriented.
I don't think I could handle Accounting due to Business Law studies, but I've been considering
taking a home-study course in bookkeeping. I think I could do something like this just fine.
What would be your advice? Thank you.