I have an opportunity to go work as a senior accountant at a trading firm. It would be much better work life balance along with a cool opportunity and 10k more than I make now. I would have to go in 3 days a week (same commute I have now) and I am concerned about the 17 PTO days plus 10 holidays. It doesn’t seem like a lot compared to the unlimited FTO I have now. What should I do?

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How many FTO days do you actually take off a year? 17 days is pretty good, that’s almost 3 and a half weeks worth of vacation or even longer if you plan it out right

I probably took like 25 this year. (Mostly because I’m the summer I just stopped caring/ was extremely burnt out and took extra days off)

I feel like you’re making a good point. 17 isn’t bad. Get all bank holidays because it’s trading. And no burn out that will make me feel I have to take more

skeptical of the WLB claim. I know a decent amount of people who work / have worked at trading firms (myself included) and all have agreed WLB is generally on par with or worse than PA.

They pay over time if you work more than 50 hours. One of the managers who just came from PA said that the only time you’ll ever get to 55-60 would be the two weeks at the end of the audit

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