No matter how much I work, I can never catch up. In fact, I feel like so fall behind every day. Anyone else feel this way? Been non stop for about 10 months straight now.

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I finally came to the conclusions you're never all the way caught up in public and if you are you get someone else's crap. Start drawing a line on what can wait and what's actually urgent so you're not running yourself into the ground

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Try 8 years.

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That’s why I left. Life is better now

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Ditto

Stop asking for work. Read learning materials

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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized this is just part of life. PA demands a lot for sure, but I also have endless house work and my family, husband, kids and friends need attention too. At some point you have to come to terms that you can’t do everything on your to do list and give yourself some grace.

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I’ve been in PA (tax) for over 20 years, and it’s been like that most of my career. But this past year has been brutal.

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You’ll never be able to catch up. Accept the chaos and do the best you can to organize and prioritize based on client size and deadline.

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Yes!

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Same here in industry

Totally depends on the industry position. I have clients that work more than I do. I also have some clients that probably do 10% of what I do. Just depends.

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Same. So this busy season unless it was immerse urgency i just got by with min/8 hrs /55 hrs during busy season. I’ve always been on top of things or at least close enough but i just got burned out because i worked late and weekends all year around. This year raises are going to be shit so why kill your self

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