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Med school and nursing are definitely not low stress. Doctors work way more than B4 or banking sometimes. You can’t take days off, lives literally depend on you. If you go into dermatology sure it’s low stress, easy money. But most medical fields are tough.
Stay in PA for a couple years, than jump to industry for that low stress, decent pay. All good things you need to work for, that’s life, otherwise everyone would do it
News flash. You have to work hard to make it in this world. Highly compensated because you either handle stressful situations well as a leader or have some rare technical skill. Sorry to break it to you. Strap in for the next 40 years.
Why do you want to work more than 50 hours?
I did. That’s why I feel misinformed as opposed to uninformed 🤨
PwC 4 in my case, talking to professionals before accepting the job WAS the problem lol. People lie to you about this profession because we’re always in need of people and it’s easy to flash the “prestige” of Big 4 at college kids and make them feel like this is the dream. I was lied to about what role I’d be doing and I was certainly lied to about the hours. I’m in the same boat OP. If you find that better job, let me know lol
Yes, this is dumb
Happy to work hard. Don’t have a problem with that. But I would rather work hard for less time and more pay. That’s what I asked. I didn’t ask for an easier job, just less hours and more pay. I’m pretty sure accounting isn’t Gods greatest gift to mankind. There’s gotta be something better out there
Only computer engineering will fit the bill. Everyone I know In computer engineering works 40 hours, makes 2x my salary and gets overtime for anything above 40 hrs because it’s so rare
Medical school. It will pay off in 9 years (one year of coursework, 4 years of medical school, and another 3-4 of training). Or get a job coding/developing mobile applications. Another option is nursing. Jobs outweigh current supply. You will need to go back to school in either instance.
This was absolutely my experience as well. ^ people flat out lie at recruiting events.
I think my biggest issue is that I don’t give a fuck about audit. It makes the days feel that much longer, and I feel guilty with each passing year, as I’m truly adding zero value to my client and my professional expertise.
Thank you Deloitte 2. I’m not sure why everyone gets so angry when ppl express that they aren’t in love with accounting. And to all the haters, obviously everything has its pros and cons, I’m not looking for some wet rich quick scheme but let’s be brutally honest, THERE ARE BETTER CAREERS OUT THERE THAN PUBLIC ACCOUNTING. Just because I only have 6 months experience doesn’t mean I need to “grow up” or “put my big gender neutral pants on.” It just means I’m curious what else is out there because this is rather in satisfying. Maybe I don’t share your pessimistic views on life that I need to be unhappy in my job. Not sure exactly why everyone needs to be so defensive of the accounting profession. It’s not that great. I don’t want to end up like many of you who get to the end and have a tombstone that says “he/she was an accountant, but at least worked hard."
@Moss Adams lol. I meant <50 hours. Pretty sure u realized that
I guess maybe I’m just inpatient. I have the cpa already so I kind of feel like what else can I do to accelerate that payday and good work life balance. It’s still hard when you look around and know that there are people who make more and have a less demanding job simply because they chose a better field. Maybe it’s just classic grass is always greener syndrome. But I just think that there is no way my grass is the greenest of all, and if that’s the case, I would like to find those greener pastures. If you catch my drift.
OP, the answer you’re looking for is Computer Science/ software engineering. Nursing, med, finance don’t match the “low stress and low hours” criteria.
Go back to school, get a masters in CS (don’t do the boot camps, those are all BS nowadays). 2 years in and you can walk out making anywhere from $100-130k.
Source: living in Bay Area, at least 90% of my social group are software engineers. They work literally 30-35 hours per week, free lunch, fun offsite trips, unlimited snacks. My lowest paid friend is $140k and the highest (that I know) is $220k. Everyone is within their 5th year of experience.
With that said: CS is not that easy. For all the friends I stated above, I know 3-5 friends who went into CS and failed or couldn’t handle that kind of work.
Law, medicine, and any kind of high finance job are going to have demanding hours. I don’t think your mythical “let me hardly work and get paid a ton” profession exists
But seriously. I’m only 6 months in as a tax staff in big 4, so it’s def not too late. I’m willing to switch careers and do anything for a better salary and better hours. What is out there? Accounting is not at all what I want.
We make and can make a lot of money without requiring additional schooling. Just need that CPA. Law needs law school, medicinal needs med school, business needs MBA. Maybe you could do sales ?
All those easy jobs you hear about are usually jobs that are available after about 10 years of hard work.
OP don’t compare your backstage to someone’s highlight reel. It won’t make you happy. Only comparison you should make is who you are now to who you were before.
Being in PA is more fortunate than 80/90% of America. Most people would kill for a job that’s in an AC/heated office where you sit all day in front of a computer. No abuse to your body. No real stress (relative to danger to yourself/others). A job in accounting is guaranteed to make 6 figures, just a matter of when/time