Is it career suicide to leave before senior? Would I be able to come back?

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Guarantee you it’s not career suicide. People leave and come back all the time

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Is anything "career suicide” when this field starts life in the middle class out of school?

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Yeah when your worst case is an 80k a year job with slow growth potential, life’s pretty good

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if you stay longer your earnings potential goes up...but lets be real. CPAs act like accounting = life. there are a million other more fulfilling ways to make a living.

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I put in my notice after 1 yr of Big 4. Have co-workers who left at the 8mo, 11 mo, 1 yr marks. Not career suicide at all. There is a life outside this insular environment.

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If you’re at least a meets, you can boomerang

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100% not career suicide, anyone who tells you it is has been drinking the kool-aid

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I left before Senior, then boomeranged back the same year as a Senior.

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I don’t see why you couldn’t come back as a senior?

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No. But once you make senior your options expand by three folds

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No and yes. I have done it .

Explain what? I answered your questions .

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Are yoy a rising senior or staff 1?

Staff 2 in Oct

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