Fresh senior. Not sure I want to do audit all my life. MBA, law degree, or second bachelors in STEM?

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I am applying MBA by the way, will quit in March/ April to prepare CFA in June, then take a 2-month vacation with my family and friend before going back to school in September. I don’t know which school will admit me but I’ve made my mind concentrating on Business Analytics or any other tech-related topics.

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STEM is where it is at baby!!!

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Data science...badges

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Quit audit and get a master/MBA with concentrations in tech/data science. Audit has no future.

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Learn to automate so you don’t become automated.

Depends what you want to do? Those all have wildly different results. Your experience doesn’t really benefit you for law or second bachelor, whereas as MBA it is a benefit. So based on those 3 options I’d vote MBA.

What specifically do you dislike about your job? If you are already a CPA, Is a transfer to advisory or tax out of the question?

Also STEM jobs for all the hype have good starting salaries but often times require advanced degrees to get into management roles

There might be, especially those need professional judgments. I am also a new Senior and I don’t think we will have chance to get involved in those—they are SM/Partner’s job. And we are too far away from being SM/Partners.

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