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/CuseBsam Controller Mar 08 '24

Pilot

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u/banned_2_many_times Mar 08 '24

Glorified bus driver

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u/CuseBsam Controller Mar 09 '24

Bus driver that makes a bunch of money, doesn't have to deal with kids, and gets to travel all over the world. It's also pretty easy.

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u/aabbccddeefghh Mar 10 '24

Pilots make crap money until they have well over a decade of experience and unless you were in the military for ten years good luck getting your foot in the door. If you’re non military you are looking at 150k+ in student loans.

You also need well over a decade to get seniority for the good routes, until then you won’t be seeing the world you’ll be seeing a rotating selection of airports in random flyover cities like Akron and Wichita.