Related Posts
Best stroller lights for evening walks??
It do be like that this year
Something to brighten up your day 🤗
Additional Posts in Accounting
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
This is mostly a grass is greener thing. All a major city has is expensive rent/cost of living, more crime, homelessness, crappy transit, more overtime and only a slight col pay increase. Oh, they do have a bunch more bars to drown out your misery though.
You only hear the best stories from people, so of course you’ll hear about the greatest, most career-fulfilling engagements from big city folks. I have friends who moved from a decent-sized city in the Midwest to NY, and all I hear is the horror stories about the long hours and nonsense office politics.
In hindsight, I would have not lasted and made it this far in PA if I were in NY or LA. Our office size is 600+, but it’s a perfect medium where I still get plenty of career development opportunities
It’s similar to the view people have about mid-size firms. How do you feel about them...
At the end of the day there’s truth but it’s by no means fact
Pluses and minuses to every city. Any chance you can work regionally and travel to one of those cities? Something I’ve been able to do and prefer over living there.
NYC definitely has most challenging work in all fields, and I'd like to start from there if I was gonna start my career over.
I would disagree with that. It does have some big finance but the other top cities have just as much depending on field
The benefit of a major city is that you are part of a much larger office and are likely to work on larger clients, resulting in more opportunities to network.
The cons of a major city are that higher cost of living are not nearly offset but the ~$5k/yr higher salary. In addition, you might hyper-specialize in one area (whereas, in a smaller market, you’ll have the chance to wear multiple hats).
It all really depends on what you’re looking for. The most important thing is that you are where you are the most happy, which I have always thought is the biggest indicator of future career success.
They definitely have more and different opportunities, but it all depends on what you want. I can almost guarantee that if I lived/worked in larger market, I wouldn't have made it as far as I have
Big cities can be fun but you'll be broke.
You work ur ass off if you move to NYC. Not worth the pain
Yes. I feel like I’m missing out to the point where I don’t feel like I’m in PA or working hard enough. Hoping to transfer to a big 4 and/or a big city as soon as I finish my cpa
I couldn’t agree more.