What was your “aha” moment that finally made you leave accounting? For me it wasn’t some big meltdown or dramatic exit. It was sitting in a status meeting, half-listening to a partner talk in circles, while feeling genuinely excited to update my résumé. That moment of quiet clarity hit hard: I’d rather work on leaving than keep pretending I care. What finally flipped the switch for you?

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When I realized most of my friends were making double my income while I worked substantially more than 80% of them, all because I had been too lazy to recruit in college…juice was not worth the squeeze. For the same amount of effort it would take to be a super high performer/fast promote (for maybe an extra 10k a year short-term and 2-3 fewer years to get to “partner” if any of them ever made it) I could put the same amount of effort into a different job and earn 3x the amount

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Definitely the pay. The pay is trash and the more I work in accounting, the more I gain clarity of how uninterested I am as well.

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