For those a little farther along, when did you go from feeling like a grunt following orders to feeling more like you had control/in the driver’s seat?

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Manager.

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Leaving public accounting

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I will let you know when it happens.

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Manager in my 2nd year. First year as a manager, I was doing some senior work still

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Senior Accountant to Controller.

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Manager. But only to a certain extent... Gotta be ceo to really be in charge. 5 year plan?

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Follow up for those managers and up still in public accounting - do you generally feel like you’re working with exclusively with people who aren’t your peers (i.e. the staff/seniors) and do you ever wish you were in a role where you had more regular peer to peer interactions? I guess that it’s probably more of a YMMV depending on the make up of your team though

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When the job market turned red hot

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Partner- still waitin

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Still waiting for that moment

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3rd year manager and now director I feel like I have very little oversight.

Do you mean, "when do you stop feeling like a clerk who should be paid by the hour?"

Manager for sure

Manager and then in a much bigger way upon making Senior Manager.

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