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Good days and bad days, just like every job.
I honestly loved it. If my promotion path hadn’t ended at SM (not eligible for D, MD, or P) I would have never left.
I was too old. By the time I would have made partner I would have had ~5 years before retirement. I knew that heading into it and had hoped for MD all along, but was told (recently) that they were only promoting to D people who were in the pipeline for P. Can’t be an MD without D first, so was locked at my current level.
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean no one does. It has good parts and bad parts like any other job
Plenty of people
It was rough but it changed my life. My career was really propelled by being there for 5 years
Read my comment above and answer your moves after the big 5 if you don’t mind.
I learned a lot and absolutely loved the work, but the hours and travel were too much for me. Moved to industry in 2002 and never looked back.
It's definitely not paradise, but since I've moved to a smaller regional firm, it's been so much worse. Big4 had it's benefits, but it comes at a cost. Sometimes the cost is worse at different times and within different teams, etc. It's really more of a 'to each their own' situation. If you enjoy the work and your teams, you have to put up with some other negatives at times. I loved the team I was on at Big4 but lack of leadership put a huge strain on me personally and created a lot of extra and unnecessary work for me that I needed to step away, and the only solution that made sense (and that would hopefully help leadership realize they needed to shift things) was for me to leave. It did end up helping my last team because leadership adjusted responsibilities and balanced workloads because they finally saw how much I was carrying, just too late to keep me there.
Every company and industry has their own negatives, you just have to learn what you're willing to put up with personally, and if you don't want to put up with Big4 anymore for whatever reason, that's okay, go find the place that is best for you!
I started my career at a B4 so don’t know what life outside of one is like. Unfortunately I’m wired to constantly check emails/work weekends and just have work consume my day to day with decent flexibility. But it’s always work work work, performance, performance, performance, politics, politics, politics.. it’s what you make of it I guess
That’s great, but it’s not ethical to leave the big 4, join a new one as a leader, and impose that on the rest of the finance world in whatever companies you end up landing with. Stay at big 4 if you want to work like a slave for the same money and lose hair by 30.
Too many traditional accountants are ruining the new culture of Finance / Accounting. The previous generations time is almost up, and they’ve likely dedicated their last couple years working on fighting back against groundbreaking cultural change. Next, it will be solely millennials in C-suite positions. That’s when depression falls, work satisfaction goes above, and wait a minute…. So does the bottom line.