Those of you who left for industry, what do you work towards in your role? I was reflecting on my time in public and there was always something, whether it was a new section in the file, getting more client contact, getting invited to a big golf outing, running the jobs, managing the jobs, etc. I worry that leaving would leave me bored and not motivated to hit any sort of goal. I’m burnt out and worry that I’m making a rash decision lol. Thoughts?

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Tax planning opportunities, coordinating with finance/accounting/legal/business development team, overseeing work done by external service providers, etc.

I was a "top performer" in public and had far more exposure to partners than a lot of my peers and personally I still interact way more with the B4/law firm leaders now than I ever did while I was in public.

For me industry has the benefit of being complex but without the time pressure of B4. I can be engaged in complex work from 9-5 but shift my attention to hobbies, friends, and family once I've wrapped up my work for the day or hit my 8 hours, whichever comes first. I'm busier around quarter and year ends but it's a far shorter busy season than I ever had at B4

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EY2: SM at a publicly traded company.

OP: I think its important to distinguish between being technical and being a number cruncher. In my experience there are people who think of the work (which requires some degree of technical expertise once you reach a certain level if you want to keep moving up the ladder, regardless of whether you're in public or industry) and there are people who execute it (i.e. the number crunchers). I'm technically focused in the sense that I stay on top of the law enough to identify opportunities and I try to stay involved in the execution of the work enough to understand the process of how it's done. I don't think of myself as a number cruncher since I'm not the one who goes into Excel/whatever other software and manually performs calculations.

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