I left public on great terms about a month and a half ago for industry. I worked at a large regional for 3.5 years. I hate my new job and I am not getting treated very well. I left for a sizeable raise and for what I thought would be good work/life balance. It turns out basically all of the things sold to me in the interview were BS with the exception of the salary. Is it feasible to go back? I would rather deal with the things I didn’t love about public than my current job.

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The sooner you go back the less bad it will look on your resume, possibly. I'm in a similar situation and looking to get out if here once CPA exams are passed.

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What industry are you in and is it a tax role in industry?

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It is an accounting and finance role in the financial services industry. I was in tax in PA

I boomeranged back after 9 months and should have done it sooner. The partners I worked under were like, "Why the hell did you go through our recruiting team. You could have called me and we would have you back for fall planning a month ago".

I hated my new job in industry on day 1. The interview discussions were clear lies. Everything was printed and reviewed by hand. Their tax department was a decade behind in terms of technology and some processes were on legacy systems taped together from the 90s. It was a mess.

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Do you want to be in industry or do you want to be in PA? That should be your decision driver. Also, I’m assuming that the issues with your new gig can’t be fixed through an open conversation with them.

If you want to be in industry, then start applying for other industry jobs. It’ll be a bit challenging, but you just need a good narrative to address it. The narrative should be what you were told versus what it is. Make sure the job your applying to fits the “what you were told” category. Have a positive attitude when you talk about it. No ones at fault and it’s just the way it worked out, but it’s not where you want to be. If you don’t get any traction with new jobs, plan B can be PA.

If you want to be in PA, then just jump back to your old job. That’ll be easy.

Just don’t jump back to PA to only be unhappy again in 2 months unless it’s your option of last resort.

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There are lots of boomerangs, so wouldn’t feel bad about it

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Also, is this a bad look? I understand the resume hit, but I am miserable here.

I’m dealing with something similar. Left for a midsize from big4. I’m so bored here I’d rather work at big4. My colleagues at my old firm want me back bad. But I want to stay here a bit longer to finish my cpa exams now that I have the time.

I had similar experience at industry job. Fortune 500 Company laid off too many people but still had to cover all the work. I was working more hours than I did in PA and had less WL balance. Every time they would add to my workload and I would tell them I had no more capacity, they would say it would only be for the short term. After a coup,e of years of it I finally threw in the towel and went back to PA. They were shocked, but I reminded them that short term fixes were never addressed with long term solutions that were promised. They tried throwing more money at me, but I just felt like my life would have continued to be miserable.

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RSM1 that’s basically what I’m dealing with now but probably slightly less worse than that. I’m a very tech savvy person and theyre not leveraging any of my skills. I finish everything so fast and sit around all day. So I just study.

We had someone boomerang back 3 months later (called the first day on his new job but we made him stay just to make sure). After a few years, you can drop the month hiatus off your resume.

Deloitte always has tons of boomerangs. Leadership may love them back, but let me tell you, we hated them. They left, screwed us over, and expected parades and raises when they came back, which they got, but they never stayed that long!! Gone again in another two years LOL….

Me: an RSM boomerang planning my 2nd escape after 2 years back.

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