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Less than who? The staff? LMAO
You are judging yourself by what you know. You take what you know for granted. The staffs know much less than you and provide much less value because your firm cannot send their work directly to client without you vetting it and also helping them to prepare it by answering their questions and giving comments.
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Agreed.
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Welcome to the club.
Also feel like I can't make anyone happy, people above or people below.
Welcome to the party. Just remind yourself that doing the work is only a small portion of the deliverables. Really value to the client and the firm is being responsible for it and growing the services provided.
Hmm, middle managers provide value in a different way than the staff they lead... because leading is what should be happening in that position. You're not necessarily in the trenches anymore, but you get a better view of how to help your team provide better service to clients/firm/society from the bigger picture standpoint. For me, I can see where my team struggle and what they have to work with from that management position which, in turn, gives me the tools I need to help them with training/mentoring and process improvement measures to make the workflow more smoothly. Not sure if this helps, but trust that you're providing value.
As a public accounting lifer, I offer the following: don’t get sucked into the “management/administrative vortex.” Stay in front of clients and colleagues for as long as you can, build a book of business and you’ll be slightly less “valueless” as you put it. You’re not wrong - it’s largely a valueless industry.