Has anyone ever left finance (or know someone that has) to do something completely different? My experience is split between FP&A and accounting and while I have progressed, I am becoming depressed b/c I feel like I’m in the wrong field. I am generally a motivated, high performing person, but I al starting to slip up and care less, b/c my work is not satisfying to me. I know I just sound like a complainer, but does anyone have any advice?

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No advice but sounds similar to me 😅 been in FP&A for 4-5 years and feeling so unmotivated bc I’m just not interested and bored at this point

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But I am* starting to slip up

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A1 that is exactly how I feel. I feel terrible b/c I know some people would really want my position but I can’t stand it lol

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I know people moved to supply chain or even marketing from finance.

I’ve been there, started taking classes in another field to eventually pivot, in that time got a more interesting job inside of accounting/finance and stayed in the field and stopped the classes. I’d say see if you can find a type of work more interesting and start moving to pivot cheaply. I did community college for some classes during this time.

There are a couple of things that I am intrigued by but they require paycut a of 20k or more and I am still trying to pay off debt. Maybe I just tough out a higher paying job until the debt is paid off and then do something I’m more passionate about?

CSA- I’m going through this now. I’m in fpa but interviewing with big 4 for an opportunity in something more interesting. It just hit me that part of Fp&a is interesting but half of it(budgeting mainly ) doesn’t appeal to me at all

Finance business partnering for internal Partners. More modeling and scenario planning …. less redundant Fp&a tasks

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