I’m just unhappy with accounting those of you made the switch to data science how did you do it ?

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My roommate from college and I both started at a big4 in tax accounting. He did it for 6 months and decided it was stupid.

He enrolled in an online bootcamp. Took courses/training while at work. He got a job at a lesser-know tech company right after bootcamp. Then moved to adobe and now works for FAANG.

This was 7 yrs ago so not sure how much value a bootcamp would provide in 2023 but my roommate makes almost 2x my salary and has a much much better WLB than I do

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I see both sides. My roommate got lucky. He made the switch while bootcamp was still a novel thing and tech companies were hiring like crazy.

Not sure if that’s so true today. There are so many ppl doing bootcamps so there’s a larger supply of talent and I don’t think tech companies are hiring like they used to.

With tax, I think there’s job security. I don’t worry about not having a job and the layoffs in the news. But assuming you are relatively young, you shouldnt take on a career that you don’t like.

Look into bootcamps but in parallel also look into M&A/International tax. I think you might be doing compliance? But M&A/International tax is a lot more interesting and a lot more in terms of compensation. M&A/International tax does a lot of planning work so you can get creative. It’s also a lot of work but no busy season and no mundane manual labor-extensive excel work

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