After two years of this I don't care about "better exit ops". I'll take WLB and a decent salary for my freedom back. After 10/15 I'm applying to every industry tax accountant/analysts job I see

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LOL! Love the work itself, but the hours and mentality in PA are miserable.

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If we started charging more and paying employees more, maybe people would join our profession?

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I don't believe "chill Summers" are coming back, especially with what changes Biden will implement next year

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“Save our summer”

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Money isn’t everything. If you are not enjoying your life or having time to yourself, the larger salaries are not worth it. I think more people are putting a larger value on WLB over salary now a days. Do what works best for you, not what people tell you will work best for you.

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It isn’t, but if you’re working a ton of hours regardless, you might as well get paid more. I like tax work and I was underpaid, I now get paid 30% more doing the same work and I get to work remote. I’ll agree that if you work significantly more than you did before for an increase in salary, but I think all firms are just busy so it’s pretty much the same every where.

Any chance you can suck it up and make it a manager? It’s a couple years of shit but you’ll be making a decent paycheck once you get the manager status and have a pretty cushy job

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That's always been the plan. Get to manager then find a decent job in industry. I think the Big 4 are doing better re-upping on experience staff in my city so might jump ship to them if I'm pulling the same crap here

Yep. I started applying to industry last month, and went as far as booked a trip to Hawaii for mid February to force myself out of PA by end of year 😂

Good for you! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥🔥🔥

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2 years? You’ve got a long ways in front of you kid

@EB1 - thanks for dropping a note. I tried the above stuff earlier and not much came across, given I am on a work visa. Many recruiters would just not respond when learning this, so I want to via a referral, I personally feel referrals are a strong source of landing at a good opportunity.

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