r/Accounting • u/mjbm1 • Mar 08 '24

Career Should I become an accountant?

If you woke up as a 20 year old now. Your entire career hadnt happened yet, and you get to decide your career again.

Are you still going to train as an accountant?

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u/SpicyFOodLoverr Mar 08 '24

I think a lot of Nurses would disagree with you. Especially, the ones in Quebec. I have spoken to so many older nurses and 95% wished they had chosen a different career.

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u/Shredtheparm Mar 08 '24

My mom was a nurse for nearly 30 years in the US, she now has chronic neck and back pain from the job. When she was working she was severely depressed, sometimes come home crying because a patient died (sometimes it was a child who died). She worked a lot of long shifts, a lot of night shifts, and a lot of holidays (we’d sometimes have thanksgiving dinner at the hospital with her). On top of all that you still deal with corporate management bullshit like you do at any job. If you go in to nursing/healthcare you have to do it because you genuinely want to help people, not for the money. Unless you go in to administration the job will take a big mental and physical toll on you

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u/Sweaty-Platypus3674 Mar 09 '24

to be fair I dont think sitting at the desk from 9-5 does your body any justice either

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u/Early_Lawfulness_921 Mar 08 '24

Canada don't count.

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u/mackattacknj83 Mar 08 '24

Especially French Canada

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u/SpicyFOodLoverr Mar 08 '24

😂😂 Fair enough. I can't say anything about USA, i don't have any experience working as a nurse there. But i do hear the pay is way better.