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I’ve been in PA for 9 years and felt like you for a solid 7. After years of dreaming about leaving I finally did and it was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. Took a chill job, learned some stuff and mended my burnout. I quickly realized I took a lot for granted in my old role and began appreciating how my hard work for all those years got me to where I am now today. I never would have had this shift in mindset if I had stayed. Now two years later I’m jumping again. Do it before you’re 20 years in and still feeling the same way. Life is so short. Good luck!
I did a masters in analytics and now lead an internal audit readiness analytics team. I switched as a SC and was able to keep my SC level while switching, because my analytics speciality was still around accounting.
I probably work 40-45 hours a week on average, and don’t really have a busy season.
Something sounds wrong...def should have been at least 9 years and 364 days that you were having those thoughts.
Bro just leave, I’m rooting for you.
You’re more than qualified to land a great job. Work with recruiters who will help vet out companies that can’t meet your non negotiables. M1 is right. It’s a scam bc an extra 10yrs of experience will make you “overqualified” for a lot of great roles. B4 won’t tell you that. Strike the iron while it’s hot good sir. You can do this! Just be consistent and don’t stop looking. Took me 9 months to find my current role. It’s a grind, but you’re more than capable if you can last 10yrs in B4.
Every busy season I keep thinking it’s my last but then it ends and I end up staying.
This was me last year. Had to move cross country for personal reasons and that was the catalyst for leaving Big Four. I don’t know how I lasted this long but if you did as well then you got the technical chops as well as people skills. Don’t underestimate your ability and start looking for jobs - reach out to former colleagues in industry. Get a sense of what compensation looks like and work life balance across different companies. Having a career goal helps. Good luck!
So what’s stopping you?
Flexibility comes in when you own the client relationship, set the initial project deadlines, etc. You can strategically align your schedule to compliment your life instead of conflict with it. If you are dealing with hard deadlines or 3rd party deals though, then yeah there’s no flexibility and the work has to be done by X. Just not the world I live in.
This is a really pathetic post coming from a senior manager. By this point you have all the accreditations and experience needed to land a good job elsewhere, meanwhile there are staff that don’t have their CPA, let alone anywhere near your level of experience, get paid half as much as you, already can’t stand working at big 4 either, but can’t get employed elsewhere because of the aforementioned factors making them less competitive candidates. The world is literally your oyster, you can do something about your situation whereas others cannot. Hope everything works out for you though.
It’s trickier than you think as you move up the B4 ranks. It’s not that I can’t find a job. It’s that they pay me a lot of money and give me a lot of flexibility, so that makes it difficult to find a better alternative with all things considered. But that doesn’t make the day to day BS go away or make dealing with that stuff anymore palatable.