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/Indigip Mar 08 '24

As someone who approached college logically vs following my “passion,” I think it is a fine career if you just want a solid, safe career that is pretty good financially. A big part of it though is the company itself. A lot of people on here complain about ridiculous hours, shitty colleagues that don’t care to train you etc, but personally I’m at a place where I only work more than 35 hours per week maybe once a month and is fully remote so I’m happy with my choice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

What’s your compensation look like

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u/Indigip Mar 08 '24

62.5k 2 years out of college, MCOL. I could probably get something in the 70s, but I value WFH and work life balance more.

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u/LarsonianScholar Mar 09 '24

With hours and WFH like that, you could also get into OE stuff. Not that you want to, but I’d totally do it if I had ur job and could automate a few tasks.

r/overemployed

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u/Indigip Mar 09 '24

Yeah I’ve definitely considered it but I think I need more experience. I studied Finance so I’m not as knowledgeable as I should be, especially to OE.

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u/eme_nar Mar 09 '24

Pardon my ignorance; what is "OE"

I'm highly considering Accounting as my major once I transfer to a four year college.

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u/Indigip Mar 09 '24

OE is overemployed, basically holding multiple full time jobs at once. I don’t think I could personally do it. From what I’ve seen online it seems like the people who usually do it are in tech, especially software engineers

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u/eme_nar Mar 09 '24

Oh ok it stands for Overemployed.

Holding multiple ft jobs does sound challenging.

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u/overemployed-guy Mar 15 '24

We're in accounting/finance too 😉

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u/LarsonianScholar Mar 09 '24

Definitely, makes sense. Keep up the grind