Senior associate feeling like a fraud in PA and wondering if I’m just burnt out or time to switch out of audit. Genuinely lost sight of where I want to and what I want to do. Have my CPA but no career goals. Undergrad and grad school they teach you the ins and outs of accounting and push only PA so hard that you don’t know what else is out there, then you get to PA and feel like half of what you learnt goes to waste. Any advice on where to go from here?? Feel like I’m at a dead end.

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