I have put in my 2 weeks resignation at EY and I have this overwhelming sense of relief. The stress of busy season will be behind me. Doing CPEs on my vacation time is over. Not sitting at my computer at 10:00 in the night and on weekends. Looking forward to quality of life. Am I the only one that feels this way?

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Negative. Put my 2 weeks as well. It feels like a veil was removed from your head and there is so much clarity and realization that there is so much more out there than B4, being overworked, and being underpaid.

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What roles you are looking forward to upon resigning from Big 4?

Did you put resignation without a new job in line? I want to submit one too, but the prospect of not landing a job due to this pandemic is preventing me from doing so

Yep. There are a lot of open positions. I wasn't even looking for a job when the recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. Took 2 weeks to get the job.

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I was let go from Deloitte in June and I did feel disappointment and a little failure, but mostly relief.

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