Worked for three years at big four and just started at an in house positions. Wanted to give some advice to put into perspective the benefits of switching:

1. Take a smaller salary if it means you’ll be able to invest. Let your money work for you instead working for marginal differences in money.

2. If your working really hard to maintain an expensive cost of living, consider how much more enriching life could be if you had more time to spend with friends and family.

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I don't understand #1. How do you have more to invest if you have less money?

I respect taking a pay cut for wlb. But you can't invest money you don't have.

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What? Lol. More time to invest? Like you mean if you used to work 50 hrs at B4 and now work 40hrs you’re going to spend 10hrs a week day trading?

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1. Working in public you are excluded from lots of investment oops and this is just my experience. I only started having the time to invest once I left public

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Having time to invest? Just invest in index funds.

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I think we can still invest in Public Accounting firm even tho less options. What I noticed is we are hard to beat Wall Street on investment. Day trading will burn us more energy and we may not end up earning more than just Investing a good foundation company ie. M7 or sp500 long term. Wall Street is the big boss on deciding how the stock market goes. As a small potato we never know their plan…

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So like if a job gives you more time to invest than you could justify a relatively small pay cut by having more time to invest that

Are you trying to day trade?

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