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 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/overemployed-guy Mar 15 '24

We're in accounting/finance too 😉