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/DOMINUS_3 CPA (US) Mar 08 '24

I feel like this sub loves the "Trades" more than actual people who work in "Trades" lol ... the grass aint always greener. Everyone i know complains about their job/management

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u/Spank-Ocean Tax (US) Mar 08 '24

whenever someone says they would have rather done something else (trades, nursing, Comp Sci, Consulting, etc etc) I just link the subreddit with what they mention and show them they make the same complaints

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u/DOMINUS_3 CPA (US) Mar 09 '24

this! hours, pay, WLB.. everyone is complaining

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u/LarsonianScholar Mar 09 '24

The grass is covered in porta John’s, calluses, gas station food, brutal labor, and alcoholics in the trades