How do people in tax handle the work? The work seems mind numbing and boring, are you really passionate about taxes? What's drives you to go to work everyday and not go crazy?

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I feel the same way about audit. Half the job is to literally redo someone else's work.

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Been doing taxes for 20+ years and never find it boring. Every return is a peek into somebody else's life and there is great job satisfaction taking a huge pile of documents (sometimes 500+) and converting it to a return. And then telling the owner how a change here & there could help them save a fortune. Try it some time!

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One persons trash is another persons treasure 💎

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And sometimes not even redo it... just find it other places and put tickmarks everywhere. It's so dumb

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If it were truly so mindnumbing, a robot would be doing it by now. We have to analyze a trial balance to determine, based on our knowledge of GAAP and tax law, it there should be a book/tax adjustment. If anything, it is a brain exploding job rather than mind numbing.

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It's definitely mind numbing and boring. I can't wait to gtfo of here

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Money getting money is good

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Tax is definitely not mind numbing unless your mind is already numb

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I agree @TSA1 and @PWC1. I find audit provision assists mind numbingly boring

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I just think about how I would KMS if I had to be an auditor with 2 monitors

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Better than auditing and doing cash recs

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I find tax to be like a puzzle. It always keeps me on my toes and thinking about why a certain number is being pulled to a particular line, then how I can change it in the software. I dabble in audit too and that's pretty much SALY which is boring as hell.

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There mind numbing aspects and there are good aspects. Documenting audit of a provision? Boooooooring. Trying to understand what happened and what adjustments are there on an audit? Interesting. The company purchased someone? Interesting. Loss company tax return with no real tax activity? Boring. Prepare a provision from scratch? Interesting.

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My car usually drives me

Took me on three different assignments to Paris, London & Singapore...Does audit do that? Seriously, I don't know what audit does, I'm a JD/LLM, hence tax was my only option.

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