Any Tax directors, VP's of Tax, Tax peeps who made it to CFO, or Tax people who became successful (or not) entrepreneurs. Care to give your stories or thoughts on your career. My goal is to stick in PA Business tax till Manager and move to Corporate. This busy season sucks right now (S1) and could use some inspiration or general thoughts to help get me through. Thank you

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I’m currently a new VP of tax at a public company. I was in the B4 for 14 years before I moved here. I think staying in PA the first 5-6 years is the best answer if your ultimate goal is the industry. Definitely a very rough 5 years, but you reap the reward for the rest of your career, so think of it from that angle - not just short term.

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Thanks, I've always wanted to get that manager experience in Tax. Just seems more and more to learn and not feeling like my knowledge is stalling anytime soon

Is there a reason you stayed 14 years? I've thought about leaving after my first manager year and coming back to PA later on as a SM just to pick up more experience.

Reasoning is that it seems more higher positions want that Industry mix early on

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I wanted to be partner, but after I got married and kids I realized I can be happy with $250k and not have to go through all the crap to make $700k. There’s more to life than just working.

For the learning, don’t worry about that. It will never stop even if you stayed in public accounting for 20 years. Once you have the baseline knowledge you can pick up new stuff fairly quickly.

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With the tax code seemingly changing every few years definitely does not look like I'll be bored from lack kf learning. There is more to life than working. For my situation though I'm already a bread winner for my family, my elderly parents, and my overseas relatives. Likely will be helping out my siblings too since they dont have college degrees. Working will be my life but I want to at least make it a path were I can still enjoy life. Maybe the partner track won't be as so brutal later on (unlikely lol). Who knows, maybe I'll find a great opportunity that allows me to be more flexible and still take care of everyone.

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