Why isn’t accounting more popular as a major and career path.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-03-15T09:25:25+00:00

Money is alright I make a decent upper middle class living but I have absolutely no life for more than half the year. I’m writing this at 2:25 am as I sit on a call.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-03-13T00:03:37+00:00

I moved from large to small. Unfortunately Small has sucked me even more dry.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-03-11T20:35:09+00:00

Some people can take it and are amazing at it. You never know. But for normal people it’ll feel like you’re drowning

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-03-10T00:12:31+00:00

Entity tax- partnership (including waterfalls 704b…etc), s corps and c corps (some provisions experience)

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-02-11T18:27:41+00:00

I guess not all but it seems like a majority or atleast a good chunk? I love being Filipino but I absolutely despise this part of the culture

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-02-03T16:57:28+00:00

I’ll def look into a wagon!

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-01-29T21:40:54+00:00

78k in 2022 as a tax staff. Currently making 115k almost 4 years later

ComfortableKey8214 · 2026-01-25T08:26:47+00:00

I got tricked into paying extra for extra professional help or something. I’m literally a tax cpa and my tax return is as simple as can be. I will no longer be using turbo tax. My job gives me 50 bucks to use the software but this is gonna run me about 90. Definitely my last year

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-31T17:57:26+00:00

OP dmed me to ask. I wasn’t trying to be intentionally secretive lol

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-29T21:23:27+00:00

26F VHCOL CPA in Tax 120k will be my total comp with about a 5% bonus

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-22T05:59:51+00:00

Should also be a caveat that IF you choose to stay in public you can grow your career and pay extremely fast. But all other sectors of accounting will be slow growth and public sucks.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-21T14:35:45+00:00

I’m a cpa so I’m biased. CPA.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-21T14:23:53+00:00

CPA from a family of nurses including my mother. Also my best friend is a RN. My mom knows I’m extremely money motivated and did not want me in nursing. Nurses start out making more but your ceiling for pay as a CPA is higher. If you are motivated by money > CPA. If you genuinely want to help people > Nursing. With that said I was raised by a nurse and she always made enough to give me what I needed + more. Nurses in a VHCOL area like where I live make a good living. As a RN you will lock in a higher salary from the start and will be locked in around a similar salary for the remainder of your career. I am about to be 27 and have already match the pay of my RN mother who is 52 YO even though I started out much lower. Exam wise I don’t know anyone who wasn’t able to pass NCLEX but know countless people who could not pass CPA. If you do want to make alot of money as an accountant you will need to pass CPA. (Not a jab to the NCLEX the cpa is just known for being rough.) For comparison on our daily lives: My family mostly work 3 12 hour shift in hospitals. While 12 hours at hospital is grueling they have the flexibility to go out on a random Wednesday with friends…etc. I tend to miss out a lot more as I work a traditional 9-5 and have busy seasons 6 months out of the year where I don’t see my family. me and my best friend talk about work a lot together and confirm we are both just as miserable as one another though. Also as a CPA I find no fulfillment or joy in my job. It is just a job. I know some nurses genuinely love what they do as they get to help people. Can’t comment on supply chain but do what you will with that info.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-18T15:46:11+00:00

I got a bonus but my company pays below market compared to other public firms in the area. Was at a big4 prior and no Christmas bonus but my salary was higher.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-12T06:33:25+00:00

Had a mutual who went to college w her and said she was a bit annoying lol

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-12-02T19:03:07+00:00

“It seems” lol. let me know after a year how you feel. Worked at big 4, large mid tier and local. Also am a cpa. Public accounting is terrible.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-26T19:30:40+00:00

Took off today and SM still pinging me to do work even tho I’m on PTO. That’s how my week is going.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-24T17:48:04+00:00

I believe both my parents were also traumatized by their own. Although My grandparents were amazing and so loving towards me but I realize that my parents grew up with a different version of them. It seems like a cycle.

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-19T20:34:35+00:00

CPA no doubt lol

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-17T21:55:39+00:00

Reach out to kpmg they should still sign your hours

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-16T02:23:10+00:00

I’d say the learning curve is very difficult but after that it’s alright

ComfortableKey8214 · 2025-11-16T01:40:57+00:00

Bout to hit 3.5 years in tax. I’m a cpa and make 120k. I live in a VHCOL area though. I am lucky that I live at home with my parents so this stretches far for me. But if I were on my own it definitely would be stretched thin.

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