I'm almost 100% sure that accounting (in general, not just public) is not for me. I'm a CPA, senior and have a bit over 3 years of experience. I want to explore different options, not necessarily 180

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You could always try some financial analyst, financial planning/advisor work. There's also banking, which isn't a bad profession either. With banking, you could be a controller or senior VP of finance. If you're good at guiding others and teaching, you could always become an accounting professor and do some work on the side to maintain your license. That's what a lot of my former professors do

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I'd consider teaching accounting in my later 40's early 50's. Long as it's not intermediate or advanced 😑

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I'd consider it now if a position opened up. But only for my alma matter. I loved that school a lot so I wouldn't mind cutting my PA career short to go back there

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If you're in audit, you could do an internal audit position in industry somewhere; just make sure the rest of the department is still filled with high performers

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degree change, but a job that relates to numbers much less than accounting does. At the same time, I don't want to throw out everything I worked for so hard, so I want to leverage on my experience and license. Anyone ever had same thoughts? Any ideas? Thanks!

I went into ERP and IT Systems consulting. I love it.

I'm in the exact same boat. Love working with data and analytics. Hate flipping through 100 invoices...

Learn programming. Take some free classes on Udacity or CodeSchool. If you like it, look into a coding boot camp. Most coding boot camps teach JavaScript or Ruby.

I have the same feelings about getting out but I am thinking more out of public.

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