For those of you who have left public accounting for industry, are you happier in industry or do you regret the decision at all? How is the WLB/office culture in industry? My apologies if this has already been asked on here before.

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I’ve been thinking/saying for a while that I need to make the switch, but now that it’s getting closer to becoming a reality it’s stressing me out a lot.

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Way happier, less pressure, less hour, 36% higher base pay.

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It’s better. More predictable. But at this point based on my role and pay check there is no such thing as a strict 9-5 unless I take a pay cut. So I wouldn’t bank on zero overtime. But certainly better than client service.

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I was in FDD and during my second year as a manager, I started to realize that the time and life sacrifice wasn’t worth it to (to me) to make senior manager. I still enjoyed the work so I wasn’t in a massive rush to leave but I knew longer term it wasn’t for me so I started casually looking and taking my time to find the right role. I wasn’t looking for cookie cutter FP&A work because I knew I’d get bored very quickly so I was patient to wait for a hybrid role at a smaller company. I was very up front with recruiters to weed out the ones who just wanted to place me wherever to get a commission check. Took about 15 months but finally found a senior manager role that combined FP&A, M&A and overall business/process improvement. It was admittedly good timing though because M&A is on fire and the workload was killing me but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t just jumping from one role I didn’t want to another role I didn’t want.

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To piggyback on this, I'm curious if anybody has found a worthwhile industry position using one of the countless number of recruiters that contact you on linked in?

To me, if you need that kind of recruiting, the job/company probably isn't that great to begin with, but at the same time I understand some places just outsource to avoid needing that department internally.

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I wasn’t looking to leave but got pinged on LinkedIn about a great role and took it. Fully remote and great pay.

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Way better all around, significantly more pay

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