Accountingfags

[Anonymous No.51370960]

I'm in my final year of an accounting B.S. and I seriously don't think I can go into the career long-term. I've never been someone to cry about "tedious" or "boring" work, but I truly think I will hate my life because there is absolutely no thinking involved with this subject and it is so underwhelming and uninteresting; I'm still learning shit I learned in my first year as a senior, and I go to a well-known/prestigious school. I held on because there's a good job market and I thought it would get deeper/more interesting, but it's literally just rinsing and repeating the same basic shit.

Are the jobs as bad as the schooling? I have a scholarship so it feels like a mistake to change my major so close to graduating. Has anyone spun off into something thought-provoking or worthwhile after getting an accounting degree?

[Anonymous No.51371030]

AI will rape your job position, act accordingly

[Anonymous No.51371050]

>>51370960
back to >>/pol/ chud

[Anonymous No.51371082]

>>51370960
Masters in cs, or go tech role

[Anonymous No.51371199]

>>51370960
I've been doing it full-time for about 4 years. Praying lunc continues to moon so I can escape. It's not a hard job but your life revolves around dates and deadlines and it seems to go by so fast in a joyless way. Stuff I was doing a year ago feels like it was 3 months ago.

[Anonymous No.51371282]

>>51370960
Worked at a big 4 as an auditor for 9 months as my first job out of college. You’re right anon, it’s miserable, brain-dead work. I got a job at a private equity firm and jumped ship before finishing my cpa because I knew how much I despised it.

[Anonymous No.51371298]

>>51370960
>thought-provoking or worthwhile
Jobs aren't meant to be thought-provoking and worthwhile. Main draw of accounting imo is the ability to work for yourself once you have enough experience.

[Anonymous No.51371321]

>>51371030
It's literally brainlet work, no human should ever be paid to be an accountant

>>51371199
How bad is pay starting? I make $18 hourly at a fluff job totally unrelated to accounting, and some of the shit I see for graduates is at $16-17 hourly with an internship, which makes me even less enthusiastic about finishing this.

>>51371082
I hate academia but I think I've backed myself into a corner where mastering in something more technical is my only way out.

[Anonymous No.51371361]

>>51371298
Fair, but I'd rather work for myself or be paid nicely by someone in a field that is fulfilling/interesting. I'm not under the illusion that my job will be my joy in living or what inspires me, but I'd at least like to do something that challenges me. I feel like I'm wasting my potential when I see shit a high schooler could do popping up on senior-level exams.

[Anonymous No.51371368]

>>51371282
What do you do in private equity?

[Anonymous No.51371385]

>>51371321
I was interning during college for maybe $15, I don't remember. Make $25 now, so probably like 50k a year. I WFH so it's really not such a bad gig, the work is just so repetitive.

[Anonymous No.51371520]

If you're good at the work then you will get assigned to the tougher clients, I'm on year 10 and the difficulty level keeps going up the higher you go if you are working on the real stuff. But most people work on saly-type engagements and are not really plugged in that much.

It doesn't really matter and it's a fine way to get a paycheck. Worthwhile? Thought-provoking? I am a little jealous of the real estate developers and feel like they've got it pretty good with doing projects that make an impact.

[Anonymous No.51371562]

>>51370960
I work at a bank doing fund accounting and it's okay. You get to see how hedge funds make decisions and get a deeper understanding of different asset classes. It is repetitive and AI can take over my job.
Do not go big 4, having to work 60+ hours a week at around 60k~ a year is peak wagie shit. I never work past the clock. Even during busy season.

[Anonymous No.51371594]

>>51370960
Just one race, the dog race

[Anonymous No.51371603]

Been doing it ten years. Shit sucks but I work from home now and my job is so fucking easy. I have a nice house and a wife and two kids. What I’m trying to say is that work sucks but cooming in my wife’s vegene is cash.

[Anonymous No.51371614]

>>51370960
I'll tell you what I told my brother. Our mother thought he was smart because he graduated with accounting degree + cpa. I failed out senior year because I spent all my time on my startup (which I later sold), and investing in crypto (this was 2015-16). You better learn how to make rich people more money with their money and learn the stuff they dont teach you in school eg. foreign tax loopholes, crypto taxes, etc. If not, well you can always be a consultant at a big 4. Good luck and god speed, anon.
>>51371030 this.

[Anonymous No.51371637]

>>51371082
>>51371030
Cannot wait until CS people automate themselves out of work or the bubble pops so you people can shut the fuck up for the rest of time

[Anonymous No.51371662]

>>51370960
get your BS but don't become an accountant, especially at big4. just go work for jpm/schwab/etc. those who cant do accounting do finance, and those who cant do finance are m majors.

>t. BS accounting hired into an IB and been there 8 years

[Anonymous No.51371680]

accounting is the best business degree, you can pretty much do whatever even if you don’t want to be an accountant
the “AI will replace accountants” meme is a complete joke. covid made a million processes in receivables and payables “automated” and it still comes back with hundreds of errors a month
basically the goal should be to get the cpa, get comfortable with excel, then automate as much as you can in excel, learn vba and sql and then move on to controller or cfo. considering that most people in operations departments literally cannot count we’re not going anywhere. judging from your OP post tho you’re an INTP that will be suicidal for the first 2 years minimum if you do decide to work as an accountant

[Anonymous No.51371693]

>>51371680
>you’re an INTP

Is this just the faggot version of women into horoscopes? Kill yourself homo

[Anonymous No.51371715]

>>51370960
I was also in my senior year of accounting when I changed my major to computer science on a whim. Before changing my major I couldn't imagine myself working in anything else other than accounting, but something in me told me to try something more difficult. Haven't regretted it since.

[Anonymous No.51371726]

>>51371361
> field that is fulfilling/interesting

No field is fulfilling or interesting. Working sucks ass. Accounting is a smart move. Doesn't have the glitz and glamour of "tech" yet still just as in demand. It's one of the safest fields you can get into and like others have said it's much easier to go into business for yourself than almost any other field besides blue collar redneck shit

[Anonymous No.51371737]

I finished my associates in business Admin. this past May and couldnt find a job so now i work at a shit factory making $26/hr doing powder coating and investing every cent in stonks because i live with parents lol

[Anonymous No.51371749]

>>51371715
You'll regret it when you're working for a gay tech company with tech trannies, autists, and s*ys

I'm not in accounting but I've noticed that people drawn to accounting tend to be actually normal functioning human beings that wear deodorant and don't have mental breakdowns when leaving the house

[Anonymous No.51371783]

>>51371637
Will never be a thing but okay.

[Anonymous No.51371794]

>>51371637
>>>51371030
>Cannot wait until CS people automate themselves out of work or the bubble pops so you people can shut the fuck up for the rest of time
you clearly have no idea what tech people do.

[Anonymous No.51371816]

>>51371693
>>51371693
you sure are desperate for a (you)

[Anonymous No.51371836]

>>51371794
Lol I work in 'tech' but on the 'IT Infrastructure' end of the spectrum. Software dev freaks do not understand real life enough to automate anything anytime soon besides their own jobs. The brand new thermostat my landlord installed in my apartment is a great example of this - the UI looks like it was written by somebody who has never used a thermostat before. And I'm supposed to believe these transgendered autists are going to automate plumbers? Fuck out of here faggot

[Anonymous No.51371872]

>>51371816
I know for a fact that I cut you really hard on that. You sound exactly like a woman "you're such a leo, I can tell based on your personality"

And I bet you probably think you're above astrology too

[Anonymous No.51371894]

>>51371749
working for old tech giant filled with boomers. stagnate work but good pay and hours. I agree with the notion that accounting majors tend to be normal functioning people. Although I must say that I have always despised the "ambitious"/active students that constantly went to case competitions, networking events, etc just to work in big 4. Those people were truly miserable to be around

[Anonymous No.51371947]

>>51371836
You sound like an emasculated retard

t. software freak

[Anonymous No.51371968]

>>51371947
You work in an industry that is 80 percent transgender and you're going to talk to me about "emasculation"

LOL

[Anonymous No.51372028]

>>51371872
not so much…especially considering that everyone that has been using this site longer than a year has done a myers briggs at some point. one day you might even do a similar personality test if you ever are lucky enough to find yourself employed
and sorry to burst your bubble again, but astrology is also legit. if I had to guess you’re a low functioning Aries

[Anonymous No.51372057]

>>51372028
>everyone that has been using this site longer than a year has done a myers briggs at some point

That makes it even gayer

[Anonymous No.51372065]

>>51370960
just do government accounting so you can leave early every day. you'll work like 25 hours a week while publicslaves are working 90

[Anonymous No.51372273]

>>51371726
You're completely wrong if you don't think certain fields are "interesting", or something that relate to a deep interest within someone. I know people from personal experience that have passion and motivation towards their jobs that takes them to achieving goals, whether that's in research or helping their clients. You sound miserable, stop replying faggt.

>>>51371385
>$25 at 4 years in
Fuck dude that sounds horrible. Are you in a low cost of living area?

>>51371894
>>51371562
Big 4 discussion and the people who are motivated towards it are disgusting. I don't know why it's seen as the pinnacle of achievement, especially when everyone knows the working conditions are dog shit.

>>51372065
I hate the U.S. government and do not want to work for them in any way, shape, or form.

[Anonymous No.51372407]

>>51370960
>there is absolutely no thinking involved with this subject
that's a good thing, working in a field where there is "thinking" means annoyance. There is no BS in accounting, just by the numbers. Wish I studied it in retrospect.

[Anonymous No.51374160]

im graduating with my B.S. in accounting this semester and i havnt done a single homework or test problem because most of my exams were online exams and i used chegg to cheat on everything. i legit dont know the basics about debits and credits, and im graduating with a 3.6 GPA from my state university. I got so good and fast at copy pasting my test and homework problems that google literally thinks im a bot because of how fast i can do it. also, i've never held any other job, ive spend the past 3 years bodybuilding and gooning in my cave. im going to try to fake my resume and get a job in government accounting, as other anons have mentioned that government is filled with boomers and less hours.

[Anonymous No.51374258]

>>51374160
I did the exact same shit during college, used test banks I found online on sites like quizlet, chegg, coursehero. I would memorize tesr question formats on the first test and use them to find test banks posted on quizlet that the teachers used. Better yet they gave us some sample questions and then I just googled those and found the entire test bank.

I would cram the night before a test by studying those test banks of hundreds of questions and I could actually memorize the answers to multiple choice and look for keywords or sentence structure in math questions to know that if the question sounds like that, I take the first number and times it by the third number in the question, etc.

I got a 3.9 GPA in my undergrad and I actually went for a masters in accountancy after that and got a 4.0.

I was so depressed and uninterested in accounting that this was easier to me than actually learning. People would ask questions in class and I had no idea what they were talking about and then I would ace the test the next week.

I have worked a real accounting job for over 2 years now and in my current position I make 65k/yr at 25. I was worried for a long time I'd be "found out" for being a fraud but in reality the job is super easy and I really feel I never even needed to go to school for it. This is the result of being functionally depressed but having probably a ~120ish IQ

[Anonymous No.51374314]

Can anyone tell me what you actually do as an accountant? I tried looking up day in the life videos on youtube but it's just a bunch of people with the camera pointed at the them instead of the actual stuff they're doing.

[Anonymous No.51374353]

>>51374160
you'll get filtered by IQ and accounting tests for being a retard. no worries.
>as other anons have mentioned that government is filled with boomers and fewer hours.
they'll most likely test you on basic accounting principles to filter you. you should try going for a WFH comm. real estate company (that's not in the south, since it's filled with conservative boomers who will run you dry and think their god's gift to mankind) and study the first few chapters of a basic accounting textbook (they'll test you on it). you'll spend the first few months doing fuck all and the work is relatively a meme since it's bookkeeping for multiple properties.

[Anonymous No.51374352]

>>51374314
Copy paste numbers into a spreadsheet, incredibly basic math (4 function calculator), reply to emails, look through numbers to make sure things accurate, apply incredibly basic principles of "this number should go up, or this number should go down" when posting expenses

[Anonymous No.51374398]

>>51374352
Fck that sounds so easy. I graduated with a bio degree with the intent of becoming a radiologist but looking at it now, idk. I might go back to college and get an accounting degree. I heard they can WFH too.

[Anonymous No.51374445]

>>51374398
I currently work from home 4 days a week and there is really no reason to go into the office, boomers just mandate it.

I have found it to be very easy but it is also very boring. I make 65k/yr at 25 and will probably only ever work my way up to like 80 or 90k after 10-15 more years, not adjusting for future inflation.

I have no idea what the process of becoming a radiologist is like or how hard that is but I hear they make a lot of money. I am risk averse and avoided CS because I was worried about my skills being tested and fucking up, that may have been the right choice for me because I'm too depressed to apply myself and accounting is much easier.

But my job is so boring and mind numbing

[Anonymous No.51374497]

>>51370960

Accounting is the worst thing you can do for your life . It’s a boring uninspired field

[Anonymous No.51374501]

>>51371520
I got the most difficult clients in year 3 at a big 4 in tax and wanted to kms after 6 months of 20 hour days
Now i just do laboring fuck accounting

[Anonymous No.51374517]

>>51371680
Best post and that's why it gets ignored and insulted

[Anonymous No.51374565]

>>51374501
You are a fucking retard if you go into big 4. Everybody at my college who talked about going into big four were these absolute soulless people, devoid of any personality whatsoever that talked like they were really looking forward to working long hours and then binge drinking with their coworkers afterwards.

I have never worked more than a 10 hour day and 95% of my days are 8 hour days

[Anonymous No.51374602]

>>51370960
I was in your exact same position a few years ago, OP. I joined the Marine Corps and now I fly V-22s. Have only ever used the degree for shitposting on a Mongolian basketweaving forum.

[Anonymous No.51374669]

>>51374445
>I am risk averse and avoided CS because I was worried about my skills being tested and fucking up, that may have been the right choice for me because I'm too depressed to apply myself and accounting is much easier

Literally me. I just want a basic job to support myself and pursue other hobbies. I am not motivated enough to work harder than I have to. I'm also thinking about just becoming a teacher since they make $60k+ starting where I live and only work ~180 days a year

[Anonymous No.51374835]

>>51374669
If you really want to pursue other hobbies then teacher would probably be preferable to accountant for that time off. I'm too autistic to communicate with children for that to be an option for me

[Anonymous No.51374906]

>>51374565
>Everybody at my college who talked about going into big four were these absolute soulless people
they're literal NPCs

[Anonymous No.51375108]

>>51370960
I ran my own small accounting and bookkeeping practice from my house for 10 years and it is the most assblastingly mind numbing thing on the planet. If you have an active mind please do something else or you will go insane. There's never any satisfaction from a job well done, like say if you built a house or something, because as soon as you're done one job you do the exact same shit in the exact same way on the next one in a never ending continuum of ledgers and balance sheets and atrocious fucking accounting programs. In high school I put up wedding tents and that was legitimately a more enjoyable job than accounting. I trade now and restore antiques. Way less money, but a million times better life.

[Anonymous No.51375143]

>>51371894
>working for old tech giant filled with boomers. stagnate work but good pay and hours.
This is the dream. I’m so fucking tired of having to “go above and beyond” and participate in the corporate circlejerk everyday.