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After 23 months at big 4, I got an internal audit offer paying $92k base salary. I work 40 hours a week from home and am only 26. I’m very happy that I can support myself and my SO.
It’s just a job that affords me to pursue my goals outside of work.
V similar over here to you PwC 2. I went into accounting to give myself a comfortable life. After 3 years of hectic public, something slower sounds great and I can still progress to manager, etc while having time to do what i want outside of work.
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You realize that any job at a public company at a manager or above in any field is going to have similar hours, right?
If you want to work 40-45 hours a week, then you’re going to pretty much be stuck at the individual contributor level in any field, accounting or otherwise. You can pretty easily leave public and find a job that pays $90k for 40 hrs/wk.
If you want to make more, you have to work more. That’s not accounting specific. The advantage accounting has is that there are a lot more manager + jobs out there than in other fields, so you’re more likely to advance past individual contributor than the computer programmer.
@ASM1 what company do you work for?
Kinda blows tbh. Wish I had gone into a different career track
Yes I feel you. I did enjoy my career so far but it’s been very stressful and exhausting. I wish I could’ve tried other tracks as well.
I heard students are not interested in accounting anymore and go for something else like computer science. It may rebound due to shortage of workforce in future but overall, I think it is going down.
Why would they? There are so many tech companies and start ups out there that offer excellent to decent pay and wlb. Not to mention you have to spend months to years studying for CPA. UX designing, software engineering, data scientist, cyber security, data analysts, even freelance YouTube video editors make more and have better wlb…..
Just a note for all y'all with no wlb year round: you can talk with your feet. Pretty much all PA firms are hiring now in audit, and I've heard some really crazy terrible stories from people working at the big 4 doing crazy hours with minimal support. I'm at a mid-size where audit busy season everyone is budgeted 55 hrs/ week through April and then 45 hrs/ week through June (with some exceptions, but never ANYTHING NEAR the 80 hours/ week for months I've been hearing from big4!) , with summers being pretty quiet (financial services). Know your worth; sometimes not just your $$ worth, but the worth of your time and sanity!
AM1, that's the one plus... I do take advantage of that PTO in the in-between times
I enjoy accounting. If I was to do it over again I would choose accounting again. Only thing I would do differently is get my CPA sooner and push back on all the extracurriculars that my partners wanted me to do. That stuff is time consuming and adds little value when so young in a career.
I feel the same way! I enjoy auditing but I’m not sure if am as smart enough to make it higher up tbh. It sucks but I’m self aware enough to realize it…im thinking maybe I would benefit from an industry role but I’ve honestly scared myself into thinking Im not good enough in accounting in general :/
I feel like most 40-45 hour a week jobs don’t pay well unless you sacrifice at least a few years working more and hard. Like the commenter above in IA at 92k.
Yeah I think that’s the point for a lot of people coming in Big4, getting that experience and exiting
Engineering is a way better choice
Just go into consulting. Don’t do accounting..it is a waste of time. I studied accounting and finance and primarily work in consulting
I have always been in consulting with a cpa / never done a day in audit or tax