I was an accountant for two years before getting laid off last month and I never want to work in another white collar office again. I would literally rather commit crime for a living or live in the woods than spend another waking second of the only life I got in a 3 hour zoom meeting with incompetent boomers that make 5 times my salary and do jack fucking shit everyday while I try (and fail) to make their accounting system less of a law-violating train wreck. FUCK I never actually want to see another goddamn ERP system again for the rest of my life.
Same senpai, I don't give a fuck about having a BMW instead of a decent car. Although I'm lucky enough to have a trust (I don't actually get to draw from it) that will guarantee me a good retirement. I don't get the point of people working 70 hour weeks in offices to make 140k instead of 60k and have a more relaxed life. Bailed out of finance for regular jobs and don't regret it. Obviously I sound like a privileged prick, but even without my safetynet I compound my meager savings at >30% yoy (time consuming but still) so who gives a fuck about the extra money
Jaxson Peterson
There are a lot more non-essential jobs than were eliminated. Most of the economy is built around leisure. There is nothing wrong with this, it should be this way in the 21st century.
Nathan Brooks
I quit accounting halfway through college and eventually got into the trades. Fuck sitting at a desk doing paperwork. I suggest looking into your local IBEW
Christian Bailey
My job was essential to the company, I got laid off because the boomer that I originally replaced just went to the marketing dept instead of being fired. Since in-person marketing was cut because of the pandemic, she came back and apparently pulled some strings and took over my job. She had literal hours to relearn the system and didn't understand jack shit after my training imao, even funnier she made over twice my salary so it was actually costing the company more. But she was a minority, had worked with the company way longer than me and sucked the (maybe more than metaphorical) dick of the CEO constantly so that was that.
>tfw you learn success is more politics then merit
Austin Cruz
This except, my job is not white collar and I take 20 minute shits both to stick it to the man and Crohn's
Hudson Myers
Yeah. I've worked in a corporate environment for a little over a year now and I'm done. I haven't been laid off but I'm quitting this month. I was already annoyed with the "corporateness" of it all, but the last straw was waking up the other day and seeing 40 (FOUR ZERO) mandatory hour long "Emb(race) inclusive diversity" seminars on my calendar scheduled every week for the next almost year.
Planning to move out west and trying to start my own business. I've got enough saved up to survive for a while, hopefully I can get something off the ground.
Noah Collins
You're better off not working for those places anyway, I think these next few years will clear out the shit businesses that have been propped up by cheap debt, usually run in this fashion.
Austin White
Fucking lol mandatory. This can't be real.
Logan Young
What is the corporate work environment like for an engineer? I’ve only worked in a small office
I see many posts like yours and yet I keep moving forward in my accounting education. I'm equipped with the knowledge and forewarning, so I can potentially brace myself for worst case scenarios, however...I just want to be a private accountant for a nice local brewery/winery/distillery. Like, a private accountant for a family owned booze business. I like accounting, and I love booze, why not do accounting for booze?
Kind of a fantasy of mine.
Blake Scott
100% real. I wasn't joking about this being the last straw. I had to zoom out my inbox to get ~50% of the email notifications in one picture.
People dodging accountability for problems, or starting projects off poorly, fucking off to the next one and leaving you to solve them
Kevin Edwards
A friend of my uncle does accounting for small businesses. Works from home, smokes weed, listens to metal, does accounting, then creates d&d campaigns. Clears 100k a year. Pretty comfy desu senpai.
Gabriel Campbell
Yeah I'm a chartered accountant in the UK but I work in a small practice. It's much better than working in the finance department of a company. I do accounts and tax returns for all different kinds of people - I see what businesses and trades make decent money. I see what doesn't make any money. It's a nice cushy job. Don't really have to deal with people apart from teaching some juniors and reviewing their work. And then I deal with the odd client. I'm going to do a few exams to become a chartered tax advisor and going into specialist tax advisory. Easy job and good money.
What I love about being an accountant is I can talk about finance, accounts, and tax to anyone. You don't realise how powerful that is - you know everything about money. You can talk to people about absolutely anything ranging from advising people about buying a car on a lease, buying a house, getting a mortgage, buying a rental property, tax implications of rental property, getting a loan, tax implications of doing xyz in a small business environment. It gives you a lot if power and people really respect you for it
Jackson Powell
Yeah, pretty much exactly what I want to do. I want to eventually work for myself, but to me, small biz is the way to go. I want to avoid big 4 as much as is humanly possible. Hell, even the top 10. The corporate environment is fucking SHIT, and I want nothing to do with it.
Carson Torres
Yeah, let’s all not have jobs. Modern society was built on the backs of NEET daytraders.
Christopher Turner
Find a job you like. Just a heads up, being a criminal is just as stressful and usually not a good job. Sell drugs if you can do it right, but people rarely do it right.
Noah Rivera
>What I love about being an accountant is I can talk about finance, accounts, and tax to anyone. You don't realise how powerful that is - you know everything about money. You can talk to people about absolutely anything ranging from advising people about buying a car on a lease, buying a house, getting a mortgage, buying a rental property, tax implications of rental property, getting a loan, tax implications of doing xyz in a small business environment Pretty much exactly why I decided to go for accounting when I came back to school. It comprises literally every single aspect of the business, and the way the degree program is structured, it necessarily exposes you to each part of the business because as an accountant you HAVE to know.
Accounting IS the language of business, and I love it from a purely conceptual point of view.
Dylan Ramirez
yes, nothing wrong with each economic crisis wiping away costly innovation and the valuable pieces being subsumed by companies with large-scale automated solutions......
Cameron Taylor
Lol it's posts like these that make me so glad I own my own business.
Newsflash guys, all blue collar industries are booming right now. You could start a roofing company and in 2 years netting over 100k a year.
Cameron Clark
I think some survey found that drug dealers make on average the equivalent of a minimum wage worker.
Landon Roberts
Shut the fuck up boomer
I hope you get assraped by your haitian nursing home worker
Neet here. I can't go back to working for some company. I feel so free now. I'm im going to work at all aside from crypto, I want to be be self employed or something.
Daniel Collins
Legal medical marijuana grower here.
I sell to over 15 dispensaries and 3 of them are multi millionaires. Took 6 months to pull a profit, but honestly I'll be there with them soon. Be the wholesaler and live a comfy life growing weed and vegetables.
Joshua Foster
Good luck with your studies mate. It's such an easy career. Learn your bookkeeping, journals etc. Then financial accounting and all the relevant accounting standards you have to abide by. Then management accounting, cash flows, loan amortisation. Then the tax law. Once you have a grasp of all that you can run an entire finance department for a company any size. Theres a reason why something like 90% of CEOs and 99% of CFOs of FTSE 100 companies were once accountants
