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Yes, the thought has crossed my mind, but being in my mid-40s, I’m afraid of making such a big change in my life. With a family to support, leaving my job and industry feels overwhelming and terrifying...
Every..Single…Day
Sometimes, but nothing has really hit me to wanna leave it
I'm seriously considering flight school to become an airline pilot
Do it bro! You got this!
I’ve been doing a counting for probably 30 years, but I got laid off right before Thanksgiving. I made a big move and moved from South Florida to Volusia County and I’m realizing there’s a lot of illegal companies that are not legit and it makes me nervous, but there are so many scams out there so many jobs that are not legit. It’s hard to define which ones are legit and not legit. I don’t wanna get caught up in some scam cause I get enough going on in my life I’m trying to fight the depression. I don’t need to add to it by being scammed.
Currently in the process of leaving public accounting and the industry I specialized in. Most of the why has to do with my mental health.
Someone always told me that if your job was too stressful for you and you are not happy and healthy. It was not worth the job to work at so get out of there. You have to take care of yourself. You only live once. Do it make the change only you can do it.
There are too many psychopaths that cause negative drama, errors, disputes, fraud. It is too stressful to deal with people's personality disorders. Am I the only one that feels this way?
Keep debating leaving PA to start my own firm, but who knows!
I’ve thought about it more than once, honestly. The hours can be brutal, and the work feels repetitive at times. But then again, the job security and potential for growth keep me from making any drastic changes. Curious to hear if anyone has successfully left the industry before?
In the first few years, yes, but the notion of sticking with what I’m good at and that my career is a means to an end has led me to stick with it. Don’t hate it either which helps.
Not leaving accounting but have thought about moving out of PA and into industry. I did meet a doctor who said he was a cpa and switched careers in his 40s. So I guess never too late.
You know I see this a lot of accounting people on here and my question to you.?I’ve learned a lot up here. It normally takes you about a month to know if the company is legal and legit and in that time you’ll find out if they’re illegal being the honest accountant that you are I quit the job and would you turn them in and shut them down .That’s a clear conscience. I’m asking all the accounting people out there. If you were in that situation would you have done what I did no matter what the consequences and what I went through of the hell that they put me through to shut me up so I won’t shut them down. They sent me up, tried to shut me up and try to reverse everything until I have the back up to prove my innocence.. I bought for several corporations since that incident and of course they pull a background chunk and because the case was closed, they hired me on the spot. Then I apply for a slop company closer to home. I work four hours filled on application on a Saturday. Told me to start Monday 20 minutes before I’m getting ready to go in to start my new job. They pulled the back on check and never even asked me what happened and told me they weren’t giving me the job after I worked there on Saturday That was a slap in the face because you don’t even know my story and why that was on there. I’m curious when you have closed those companies down so that you can go to sleep at night with a clear conscience. Would you have done what I would’ve done because us as accountantswe are honest and do our job well and go to sleep at night with the clear conscience.
I thought about a masters in computer science or software engineering before I enrolled in an MBA program. Either one would be a good choice for someone with an accounting background. It all depends on your age, mathematical aptitude and ultimate goal.
If you are still young and you don't want to remain in the accounting field retraining to do something else isn't a terrible idea.
I used to think about it sometimes, but now I make enough money that I don’t care as much about the downsides to accounting.
Went from 50k to 140k in 6 years in LCOL. For the HCOL folks, 140k may not seem like much, but where I live it’s 4x the median household income.
30 in March and decided to switch from Tech to Banking this month! INCREDIBLY different but excited to see how it goes. Tech was wayyyy too chaotic and felt like very low growth in technical accounting with such fire drill issues and general attitude of “make it good enough and move on”. Banking so far, the pace is WAY slower and employees are way less over worked. 100% in office, but obviously you have to decide what means more to you.
Currently thinking about it. I did this as a career change to have a professional job with more autonomy. And now it’s all about working me to death and RTO, I thought CPAs were respected???
All the time. I have a high aptitude for tech and it’s lead to me being used as a data analyst or to lead new implementations. On one hand I love process improvement, on the other, I can’t tell if it’s because of the roll new tech has in accounting or if it’s me.
If I am being honest I think about leaving every single day but I stay because the money is good and I can't help it lol.
Generally speaking, accounting is thought of as overhead and management sees it as an expense to be reduced. The closer/easier it is to see how your work it tied to new drivers, the better your pay will be.