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    Accounting Anyone else?

    Anyone else?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 07:58 PM PST

    Today feels like that Sunday before another week of grade school feeling, except x100.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:34 AM PST

    Welcome to another busy season.

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    Big 4 is not a prerequisite for success. Four years ago I graduated and started at my Federal job. At graduation I had a -$20k net worth. My networth has now passed $215k.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:00 PM PST

    I've been a lurker / occasional poster in this sub for about 6 years now. This post is for all the students out there wondering if they need to go big 4 to have a successful life.

    Education:

    I went to community college and then transferred to a cheap state school. I graduated after 4.5 years of college so don't think of me as some over-achiever super student. I graduated with about $23k in student loans and $2.5k cash in my pocket saved up from summer internships.

    I have a bachelors degree only. I am not pursuing the CPA.

    Internships:

    Summer after my Jr year I interned with the federal government. (Fun fact: This subreddit is actually the reason I found that internship! - checkout usajobs.gov for federal internships). After that internship I received a full time offer.

    Summer after my Sr year I interned with a Big 4 firm. The difference in work life balance and employee happiness was night and day. The intern pay was great but I could tell working B4 would be a miserable 'stay as long as you can tolerate and then run' experience. I decided that wasn't for me and took my federal offer instead.

    Career:

    After gradating I moved to DC and started working as a staff auditor. I'm hopeful for a promotion this year. In that time I've worked on 6-7 different audits. It's been two years since I've worked any overtime. Overtime is paid at 1.5x though so I didn't mind it. The work my agency does is interesting and engaging. The work-life balance is great and I plan to spend my entire career with my current agency.

    Salary progression* / Net worth:

    *(includes $1k-3k in agency-made student loan payments)

    2016: $11k / ($20k)

    2017: $62k / $17k

    2018: $83k / $54k

    2019: $86.5k / $127k

    2020: $92k / $217k

    Family help:

    I was able to live at home while attending community college. After moving away to a state college my family paid my rent for the first year. I have huge respect for people who had to work and go to college at the same time. I feel very lucky to have had that family assistance my first years of college. Not having to worry about working during the school year to afford rent was a huge relief. I was also on the family cell plan until about 6 months ago.

    Investing:

    No individual stocks. No crypto. No wallstreetbets shenanigans. All of my investment money goes to boring total stock market index funds (VTSAX).

    I've maxed out my TSP (401k), IRA, and HSA every year of working. That was the extent of my investing for the first three years. For 2020 I also opened a brokerage account to invest extra into VTSAX. I have done no market timing and have never sold a single share. Everything is on automatic investments and I spend 0 minutes a week managing it.

    Why am I posting this?

    I've seen so many posts asking if someone can be successful without going B4 or getting their CPA. The answer is yes, yes you can.

    If mods need any proof I'm happy to provide. Not sure where this post falls within the rules.

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    The IRS HATES this one easy trick!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:43 AM PST

    Being a high performer at Big Four

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:00 AM PST

    From what I've seen, being a high performer at the big four isn't worth it.

    I feel like the normal expectation for someone being amazing at their job would be to make more money and have greater flexibility. However, the staff I've seen who are the best are just given even more work than normal. For example I know a top performer who was given a 6 month busy season client where he worked 80+ hours a week which is not normal for that office. Also I haven't seen most high performers get exit offers that are that much better than everyone else.

    "For being great at your job the big four doesn't give you more money, they just give you more work."

    Change my mind.

    (I'm talking about the staff and senior levels.)

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    When my worlds collide!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:18 AM PST

    It's almost Monday

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 09:42 AM PST

    Work starts tomorrow

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 06:24 PM PST

    I just graduated with my masters and start my first day of work tomorrow. I am working at a public accounting firm. Any advice for starting my new career? Also, I wonder how I'm gonna focus on anything for 8-10 hours a day...

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    Agree or disagree? “Honestly a place that’s so concentrated on having B4 experience is not a place you’d prolly wanna work for anyways. It’s prolly B4 preferred because they wanna work you long ass hours and over work you, just like at the B4.”

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:10 PM PST

    Or is it just the clout/prestige factor that employers are looking for?

    Or Both?

    Which is more common? What have you guys seen from employers? Thanks.

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    CFE Tips & Tricks

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 11:28 AM PST

    Hey r/Accounting! Another "CFE Advice" post, but I'm trying to put a different spin on this one to avoid redundancy with the other 100+ CFE posts on reddit. When I was studying (FYI I had 2 weeks off, so efficiency was paramount for me) I found that the major sources of information and advice had a lot of over-lap: Time management, case-practice etc. is all important and covered ad nauseum all over the place. So, this post is NOT intended to explain the CFE to you (it would be redundant for me to do that, CFE info is EVERYWHERE), this is supposed to supplement that knowledge with some tips and tricks I learned on my own and would have loved use right from the start of my prep-work. If none of this info seems useful to you, my advice would be to return to this post after you've done some due diligence on the CFE and perhaps have written a few practice cases. If you still this post is useless, then it sounds like you're well on your way to creating a system you're confident with. This is all free of charge and only meant to help you! Of course these tips won't guarantee you a pass, but they will absolutely increase the chance of a pass right away. Immediate gratification! Read on:

    TIP 1: SPLIT-WINDOWS IN MICROSOFT WORD!

    • I wasn't originally going to include this tip because CPA may patch it over and make it no longer possible by the time you write the test, and in prior years this may not have been possible, but I knew it was worth a shot come exam time and it paid off. When we wrote the exam we did so in Microsoft Word, and this tip helped me HUGE on day 1, 2 & 3! Open word, going to View on your ribbon, and click "New Window". This allows you to open 2 identical windows for the same word document which you can lock to the left and right halves of your laptop (hold windows button + left or right arrow) and it was immensely useful. For example, when writing day 1 you're expected to constantly refer to your situational analysis (you'll learn what this is when you learn about the CFE). Scrolling up to your SA, then back down to your answer constantly becomes stressful and will give you a headache. Sure, you could use the search function to move quickly, but I found that to be clunky. So, when writing day 1 I had my situational analysis open on the left-half of the laptop, and my answer (same document, just different page) open on the right hand side of the laptop. I can quickly refer to my SA (look to left window) and incorporate that into my case
    • Another example is using this with my day 2 and 3 outline on the left-hand side of my laptop, and my answer on the right. It would allow me to instantaneously check what I had to talk about next, and I could also green-out (see my day 2 outline system down below) the text of the points that I've talked about.
    • If CPA patches this functionality over in later CFEs don't fret, with a little creativity there are tons of tips like this one that you can discover which will make your case-writing very quick. My point is simple: Understanding the software you'll be using (excel, word) will pay dividends.

    TIP 2: FOLIOVIEWS & KNOTIA

    • Day 2 (and potentially day 3) common AOs you will be expected to reference GAAP (folio or knotia) at the speed of light. You don't have time to think much, and any delay impacts your time-management which some refer to as a "Fatal flaw"
    • I always found it incredible how LITTLE time other students (and PEP programs) spent learning how to effectively use FolioViews, and to a lesser extent, Knotia (it has less functionality). Using these programs efficiently is critical to passing your financial reporting AOs. Perfect example, we had a convertible debt AO in the September 2020 CFE. I have never bothered to look that up in the handbook, but I was able to find it in less than 60 seconds with some extremely simple advice:

    Tip 2a: Folio Views

    • Turn on search hits! Tools (at top) – Options – Contents – Check the "Query Results" box. Done! Now, always stay in the "Browse" tab view (at the bottom). What this will do is provide # of hits for your search in whatever you're searching. As a simple example, lets suppose you forgot which chapter is intangibles in IFRS (this technique is capable of much more but I want to keep this easy for illustrative purposes). You would search intangibles (I tell you how to do that effectively below), and you would notice the IFRS Intangibles chapter would have A LOT of hits, more than anything else. You now know where the intangibles chapter is.
    • Search area check boxes. In the browse view you can limit your search to as much or little area as you like, I used this for every search. If I didn't know where a chapter was in IFRS, then I'd check the "IFRS Standards in effect…" box and search the whole book. If I was looking for goodwill treatment in IFRS under intangibles then I would (1) locate the intangibles chapter and (2) check that box to only search within that. By practicing this you get better at the handbook to, win win!
    • Quotation marks. When you want to search for an EXACT phrase, wrap your search in quotation marks! So, I'd open a search box (I always used advanced) and wrap the word or words I'm looking for in "", and my search would be limited to that exact phrase. Be careful with this, spelling errors & improper grammar or punctuation will prevent you from finding what you're looking for
    • Derek Jeters, er, Asterisks (*). This is the opposite of quotation marks, this means that if I search Contingen*, Folio will look for any word that starts with Contingen. This is critical if you're unsure of spelling or you're unsure of exactly what to search with quotation marks.
    • Root words. Using the asterisk above creates an opportunity for you to search root words and get results for all sub-levels of that same word. Sounds confusing so here is what I mean: Take "Impairment" for example, you have the words "Impair", "Impairment", "Impaired", "Impairing", all of which may be useful to you. What is the one common in all of the above? "Impair" is located in all of those terms. What I'm saying is when you search, use the base part of the term with an asterisk, and your search result will return all variants of that subject.
    • Combination of quotation marks and asterisks. Every search I made utilized everything mentioned above. I would (1) limit my search with the check boxes (even if it was the entire IFRS book, or entire ASPE book), I would (2) use quotation marks, and if I was unsure of spelling or exact search phrase, I would (3) end the search with an asterisk and the final quotation mark. For example, when I was looking for the location of convertible debt I (1) selected the ASPE handbook, (2) searched "Convertible debt*". The asterisk may not be needed here, but by including it you'll also be getting results for Convertible Debts, Convertible Debt's, whatever else

    Tip 2b: Knotia

    • Much less functionality here, but above advice with Folio still applies. I used a "2-search" technique for locating GAAP criteria. I would check the boxes of the areas I would like to search, and use their search function similar to folio views (I just explained this above) to get the general location of the GAAP I'm referencing (could be an entire chapter, just try and narrow it down to a chapter or less). Then, I would use Windows search function (control + F) to hone in on the exact area of that chapter with the criteria I wanted to use. Simply put, I used Knotia's search function to narrow down IFRS or ASPE to a chapter or section. Then I would click into that chapter and ctrl + f to get the exact location or what I want. You can hit "Enter" after your search to quickly toggle about your results.

    TIP 3: .XLS-BASED CASE TIME-ORGANIZATION TABLE

    Time-management is one of the most popular topics you'll hear about from successful writers. Here is how I ensured I stayed within time constraint when writing a case:

    • After completing your outline, open your excel and scroll down maybe a couple hundred rows (to a part of the excel file that won't be used otherwise)
    • Write in heads for 4 columns in blank cells (AO, Length, Start, Finish)
    • In the first cell of the AO column, briefly list all AOs identified from your outline in as many rows as you'd like
    • In the length column write the physical number of MINUTES that AO should take you
    • In the Start column and row of your first AO, hit ctrl+shift+;, this will write the current time in that cell
    • In the start column and row of your second AO, make that equal to the Finish time of your first AO. Drag this down to the bottom of the start column
    • Finally, in your Finish column, create a formula that is the start time of that corresponding AO + TIME(,the length cell you allocated to this ao,). In other words, your finish time is your start time (column 3) + your length (column 2).
    • If you've done this correctly, you now have physical start and end times for every AO by time. If you go over, hard-punch that AO's finish time and physically enter the time you finished, the table will automatically update. Be careful to ensure your finish time for the last AO is within your time constraints.
    • PRACTICE THIS. I could complete this entire table for a day 3 exam in less than a minute. For day 2, not much longer. Use the key commands
    • This time management tool may not seem all that special, but if you take 10-15 minutes in front of a blank xls file practicing this (do it with arbitrary AOs, delete, rinse and repeat), this will be of a huge help tracking your case completion, especially since CPA may stagger start times (like they did with us) which can make it difficult to quickly calculate remaining time if you were to start at something like 1:17pm. During the exam some AOs will take longer or shorter than what you guess in your outline, you DO NOT want to spend time re-calculating how much remaining time you will have for your remaining AOs. This is a dynamic table that will do all of that for you, with very minimal effort on your part

    TIP 4: CUE CARDS

    • Again, very common advice, but I don't get the impression that we're using this method of studying to its fullest potential, I would like to try and help:
    • Download the phone app Cram, search for account "Hogger89", you now have all my cue cards that I created during PEP & CFE studying.
    • Open up a deck and use a setting called "Cram mode". This is a game that moves all correct answers to the next of 5 stages, if you get that card wrong, that card goes back to stage one. You're memorizing through repetition and I found it immensely useful for day 3 (level 4) because you're expected to regurgitate a lot of general information in a very short time.
    • This is now on your phone, so pull it out when you're stuck in traffic, when work is slow, maybe you're waiting in the doctors office, whenever you have time. This allowed me to create micro study-sessions WHENEVER. And I loved that I was being tested in different environments (perhaps you're somewhere noisy). Helps with focus!
    • There are a few decks which you may find uber useful in my account: "CFE – Performance Measurement", "CFE – Finance", "CFE – Strategy & Governance", "CFE – Assurance", "CFE – Taxation"
    • The above slide decks are what I used to study breadth for day 3, they're all-encompassing slide decks that I believe touched on every major (and most minor) topics that CPA could test us on. In other words, if you can get through these decks confidently, you're in great shape for breadth. Many of the cards are "put in my own words", so in essence, I was studying by creating these. But in any case, cut me some slack if you read some oddly-worded answers, or answers that are verbose.
    • I also have slide decks for almost all major topics within FR, MA, Tax, Finance, Assurance that you can sort through in that cram account. I effectively consolidated a lot of those into the "CFE" slide decks I mentioned above.

    Below are a couple of my thoughts on common advice:

    1. Templates – These are critical and can be created for just about every part of day 1, 2 and 3. Here are some of my templates:

    Day 1:

    Situational Analysis:

    • Mission/Vision/Values (MVV)
    • KSFs
    • Company & Stakeholder objectives/goals
    • SWOT
    • Quantitative (Ratio, vertical, horizontal, covenants, revenue growth etc.)
    • Potential constraints (if any)

    Analysis of 3 or 4 MAJOR issues

    • Identification
    • Quantitative calculation
    • Quantitative Assumptions, Explanations, Financial implications and obviously the excel calculation you made
    • Qualitative analysis (strengths/weaknesses are a great tool here, integration with your situational analysis is CRITICAL)
    • Conclusion

    Operating Issues (Strengths, weaknesses and/or a minor quant, nothing super formal)

    Final conclusion

    • Summary + more integration
    • Prioritization/ranking of conclusions

    Day 2 & 3 won't have a consistent structure like day 1, you're doing a lot of isolated Identification – Analysis – Recommendation. However here is a quick template you can use for FR depth which is typically a topic of contention within Cap 2. When you see an FR AO, your analysis section should address all of the following if it's possible:

    • Definition – Is it met? Ex. If it's a contingent loss AO, look at IAS37 and you'll see a definitions section for contingent loss. Your first thing is to ensure the definition of a contingent loss is met
    • Recognition
    • Measurement
    • Subsequent measurement (if any), ex. PPE depreciation methods like revaluation method!
    • Disclosure (if any)

    2. An excel-based study schedule – After I had a general understanding of the CFE, I outlined my entire study schedule which was a mixture of case-writing, technical review & cue cards. This gave me confidence that I was touching on all testable topics, I could program in breaks and days off, and it held me accountable. If I was moving fast that particular day it also gave me the opportunity to finish my work quickly and not feel guilty about closing my computer and shutting off for the day. I'll be the first to admit that this advice is common, but if you would like the file that I created to use as a template then DM me.

    3. My Day 2 outline system - You're going to hear about paper-based outlining, digital outlines, and no outlines. Here is my system for day 2 outlining which ensured that I was hitting absolutely everything.

    a. Put Microsoft word on bullet-points. When you see an AO, write what they want down as a bullet, including the page number.

    b. Now, using the sub-bullets, your job is to park all information you want to include or need to know in order to answer that AO. That could be physical points you want to include in your answer, or simply where relevant info is in the exam. INCLUDE PAGE NUMBERS, that's critical. You see, CPA will scatter information around the exam. They may provide an AO on page 1, and the information you need to solve it is on pages 3, 5, 9 etc. What you're doing here is chronicling the exam. You aren't going to have much time to locate the same info twice, so using this system you're giving yourself a route map for each AO. I also loved doing this because if I see an AO like board governance, I could immediately jot down (again, using the sub-bullets) the e-book topics I knew would score me points (ex. Odd number of members, diverse backgrounds, someone with a CPA background, frequent meetings, accurate quantitative and qualitative data, recording meeting minutes etc. etc.), and use that as a template for my answer on that AO

    c. Once you've done this for all AOs, highlight all the text red

    d. Now, when you start writing your answer, you have an itemized list of everything they want to see. You basically only need to refer to the case for financial statements or whatever you included page numbers for. You've just condensed this exam by a boat-load. Don't be one of the student writers that finishes reading the exam with more questions than when they started reading. This method forces you to get writing immediately.

    e. Once you've included the information from your outline in your answer, you can now highlight that sub-point (from step "b") green (I suppose you can also just delete it, but I liked having a record of my outline). When you've touched on all sub-points, you can color the text of that whole AO in your outline green. This ensures that all the information you pulled from your read-through has made it to your answer. I cannot tell you how many times I heard someone say they forgot to include important points in their answer even though they noticed them during their read-through. You're doing a lot, very quickly, so this ensures you touch on everything

    f. At the end, all your AO identification and sub-points from step "b" should have started as red text, and now be green text indicating that point has been addressed in your answer.

    g. Side note to PM writers. This method works extremely well for AOs like SWOT, Risk-mitigation-recommendation. When you see that's what they want, you physically create a SWOT template, then slot in the points into your outline as you see them when you're reading the exam.

    4. Creating a debrief sheet using answer keys. Why didn't I use these earlier? When you submit your case, it will be marked against an assessment guide, which are remarkably consistent between cases, especially for financial reporting AOs. For example, business combinations. I struggled with one of these AOs, but I looked at the assessment guides and realized they're almost always looking for the same criteria to score points on a business combination AO, example:

    1. Has CONTROL been obtained

    2 Has a BUSINESS been acquired (integrated operations to produce outputs)

    1. Conclude on if business combination (If so, recognize IDENTIFIABLE ASSETS & LIABILITIES at FV on acquisition date, as well as goodwill and NCI (if any)

    2. Analyze what their IDENTIFIABLE assets and liabilities are (use definition as criteria)

    3. Calculate GOODWILL

    4. Adjusting journal entry

    5. Impact on the users

    · So, I have an excel file that tracked all this information - it was mostly sourced from CPACanada study tools which you should have access to. In short I'm referring to an xls table where each row would be the case, the AO, the topic tested, my score, brief notes on why I didn't score better, then an area to input your own template so the next time you see that topic you can dump the case facts into your own template. I started this tool late in the game, maybe 2 weeks before I wrote the exam, but I WISH I started this when I began writing cases. It's so nice to know exactly where you went wrong at a glance, and also by including AO topics you can return to cases and work on topics you're weak on. In other words, if I wanted practice on impairment, I could use this table to identify which cases test impairment and jump right into them.

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    Leaving big 4 two weeks into busy season.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:43 PM PST

    As many know, the big 4 firms shafted us with raises for those that were moving from staff to seniors. I went out and got a pretty decent industry job over the break that pays 25k more plus 30% bonus. Going to out in my notice TMR. Anyone got any experience of leaving two weeks into busy season? How mad were the managers?

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    For those that switched into FP&A, operations or corporate strategy. Do you find it different from your big 4 job?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 12:51 PM PST

    My big 4 job is extremely stressful and I don't want to be here for long, so looking into exit opportunities.

    Thanks.

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    This will be my last busy season. Tell me all about the joys of private industry so I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 03:41 PM PST

    Classic story: burnt out high performing audit S1 at a B4, and I want out as soon as possible without abandoning my team this year-end. I'm not weighing pros and cons; leaving is not a question, it is a definite. Just help me get pumped up for one last push before I get out of here!!

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    Who also fake a personality in interview and now onboarding new job

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 01:21 PM PST

    Anxiety kicks in that I cannot maintain my interview personality which is more cheerful and enthusiastic and passionate than the real me.

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    aGrEe?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 05:25 PM PST

    It's almost Monday

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:34 PM PST

    Holy shit the Christmas trees are out in the streets which can only mean one thing.... tomorrow is about to be the start of the greatest period of our lives. Thats right, mother fucking busy season. I can't sleep just thinking of rolling straight out of bed tomorrow onto my souped up gaming PC I bought with all that accounting money and jumping straight into a morning zoom call.

    Now idk about you, but I'm ready to fuck some work papers up, follow up with clients on pending support, and make so many adjustments my fucking fingers will ache. Tell the FASB to come read this diary. Fuck drugs, sex, and partying. Its debits, credits, and SALY boi.

    I'm shaking just thinking about how fucking sexy it's gonna be to login to some software and basically go super saiyan. Gonna Goku the shit out these paper work. Only dragon balls I have is when ill be dragon my balls across some reviewed financial statements. I suggest you do the same. Stay getting it boiz and gurlz. Busy seasons coming and it's up to you to fuck it up.

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    Hope everyone is enjoying their last day of freedom

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 01:08 AM PST

    When we are billed to work 12 hours are you actually “working” those 12 hours?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 04:20 PM PST

    Is it common to get distracted, take longer on certain things, or just lose attention?

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    Advice on getting fired from public smoothly?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 02:56 PM PST

    Personal health has considerably deteriorated through the years. I've stopped chasing money and material things entirely still in my 20s. And I had that "I want to be partner" delusional mentality at some point.

    Anyways, had a tough psychotic break and I got fired from industry. I eventually secured a job in my first public employer (worked there for 3 years, got promoted and shit). I've been doing horribly, I was good in audit but I suck now and there's definitely younger people way smarter than me now.

    I've had a fuckton of holidays/free days, specially because of quarentine where I live. Now I'm back to normal life tomorrow. I definitely hate current job and managers hate me. The only empathy I barely get is from staffs, not even from other seniors like me. I was absent for a single day and the repercussions were so bad I haven't been absent ever since.

    Even if I put that suit and tie again and cosplay that I'm in the Wolf of Wall Street, any sense of self-esteem is gone and has been gone for years. I don't even have enough strength to "fight back" when someone challenges me (why did you do X instead of Y?). And only recently I've realized this is just humilliating. And I'm definitely getting fired soon. Any advice on making this smooth as possible? I don't want employer to keep giving me tasks when it's obvious it won't fix anything. And it's clear they're building a case against me, I'm too old to play like this. I'd quit myself but I don't have it in my head right now.

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    When you feel like you need to quit public for mental health reasons, where do you go after?

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:46 AM PST

    I'm sure this is partly the fault of being cooped in for many months on end, but my mental health has never been worse, and working uncomfortable hours for most of the year has really made it a lot worse. Busy season coming for another 4-5 months is making me really worried. I don't think I should quit during busy season, but I've feel pretty trapped as of late with my options. I've been at B4 for almost 1.5 years and while this has definitely been great for learning, it's so easy to burn yourself out, and it's definitely been the case for me. Part of me feels like my future opportunities won't be as great if I leave after this busy season, especially if I leave for industry or government. I like client services, but I really can't do the hours anymore without further sacrificing my health. The industry I audit isn't really the one I want to be in for the rest of my career. I've also thought about grad school, but I feel like I don't know what I'd do with the degree. And if I jump to another firm, B4 or national, there's always the risk that my situation may get even worse. I'm already doing therapy, mindfulness, and all of the things I'm supposed to in order to curb my issues, but at the end of the day, I'm a super high stress and anxious person (thus the associated disorders) and it's frustrating.

    I'm sure I'm not alone on this, but it feels shitty that I have to keep grinding and keep being at a sweatshop for this field in order to "feel" like I have options and opportunity for growth after public. I'm sure that's not the actual case, but I want to hear where people left for when public became too taxing on their health. TIA.

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    Am I doomed in accounting? I want to provide for my wife and family.

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:42 PM PST

    I am currently 26 years old. I have Aspergers. I have 2-3 outright abandoned jobs on my resume which only holds 6 positions in general. Each of which are only 6 month positions at most, all in a variety of fields.

    Is there any hope at all for decent life in accounting? My only aim is to become a workhorse and provide value to those around me. I truly want this more than anything else in life. If only to pay those back around me who have supported through the years like my wife.

    Have I locked myself out of a big4 position or hell, even a government position? I need advice as I can't stop thinking this.

    As for some extra related information: On an personal note: I come from an abusive and neglectful household. I simply expected to be dead by suicidal depression at this point in my life. But here I am married and given a purpose to live.

    On an academic note: I have 30 credits which are mostly unrelated to the degree itself as I have changed my major from nursing to physics to accounting. All throughout the course work I have maintained a 4.0 gpa. I will be finishing my accounting degree in three years if I stock my summers with courses. I know if I continue on this path then I'll be able to join my college's Beta Alpha Psi chapter where I hope to add a more positive experience for my resume. I would like to pursue a CPA once finished with my bachelor's.

    Tl;dr: The anxiety, dread, and self doubt of a semi-disabled dingus.

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    Starting my internship next week!

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 08:15 PM PST

    I start my audit internship next week on Monday. I've been super anxious as it's getting closer. Anyone want to help calm my nerves?

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    I had a dream last night that I volunteered to help a local community production of a play and then remembered I was an accountant

    Posted: 03 Jan 2021 10:52 AM PST

    So in my dream they needed a drum set player for the band and some extra hands around to help. So I signed up and go to the first practice. We built a train model, painted a background, all sorts of shit. Looked at the time and it was past midnight and I was like "oh man I gotta go home. Then the main volunteer who was totally into it was like "alright we will see everyone tomorrow at 8am" and I said "wait this is everyday" and he was like "yeah man this is serious if we wanna do a good job" and then I told him "oh I quit" and everyone thought I was joking. I said "no it's about to be tax season I don't have time for this shit. What am I even doing here? This is stupid as fuck." And then I went home.

    Woke up rock hard just thinking about taxes

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