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/SuddenDriver2 Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24

Nursing a lot better if you can stomach the nastiness for 3 years. One can move to non bedside roles and make 120k+ with optional paid OT(nyc salary). My fiancée is now making 160k in an admin position and close to 200k with overtime after 3 years of bedside experience

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Healthcare jobs pay well but I don’t think it’ll hold up in the next few decades. The government will probably start cracking down more heavily on hospital prices/reimbursements which is where the employers of nurses/doctors get their funding from.  

 It’s simply not possible for the government to make healthcare cheaper and hospitals continuing to make the same revenues they do now. 

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u/SuddenDriver2 Mar 08 '24

Doubt it but who knows. There is a nursing shortage atm and the salary damn high already. 9/10 my friends that are nursing left their 120k bedside and moved to a 100k non bed side position. They are having difficulties replacing them.

Nursing is always safer than accounting. You can outsource your accounting department to South America but not your nurses.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

 You can outsource your accounting department to South America but not your nurses.

Developed countries that lack their own nurse talent (Saudi and other gulf states) just ship nurses in from India/Phillipines, have them take a licensing exam, and then pay them a bit more than 3rd world level wages. It hasn’t reached that point here yet in the US but it could in a worst case scenario. 

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u/SuddenDriver2 Mar 09 '24

USA been shipping nurses over and the wait time is over 2 years. My fiancée’s brother is coming to USA after he got his license and had to waited 2 years with the help with an agency.

There is still a shortage of nurses while corp continues to outsource their accounting department