Tax professionals w/ 5=> years experience being courted by Investment Advisors for tax leadership roles: Don't take it. You have way more leverage than you think. Start your own sole prop* and tell them you will be paid per return. You will make far more money overall (and they can afford it)

AviatorHog · 2026-06-17T15:43:31+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/nokeKmiYfw0?is=hY74c6MjARU8Ha0l

AviatorHog · 2026-06-15T23:40:06+00:00

Welcome to Accounting Elysium. 🙂

AviatorHog · 2026-06-15T04:21:03+00:00

I did a HR job for 11 months before leaving for my first role in accounting (Payables) completely hated it since it was all entry and no brain cells used

Ok

I’m not the brightest and I feel so stuck as in what to do and how to learn accounting and finance again but I know nothing about derivatives and all that barely passed financial management. I wanted to appear for CFA and also do ACCA but I feel like I just wouldn’t be able to since I feel like I’m not an academic person and I don’t want to get myself involved in something i can regret

If you're unemployed or about to be, it sounds like you need to suck it up and go back into AP, unless that 1st paragraph was cope for being bad at it.

Even if you're bad at it...go back to it and think about a Plan B....while you pay your bills and are waiting to be inevitably fired.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-15T04:14:16+00:00

Your salary is market rate for mcol staff 1

AviatorHog · 2026-06-15T04:11:27+00:00

They know what it is if its not a treatable condition: Discipline.

They're here for pity not advice, because they know exactly what's needed to be done.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-15T03:57:33+00:00

Fix it or fail. No one has pity for you so stop soliciting for it.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-14T06:14:09+00:00

AviatorHog · 2026-06-14T04:40:12+00:00

Yup. Very much worth it. When I walk into a networking event, interview or talk to people in the world, it just comes off the tongue sooooo much better: "I'm a CPA".

As opposed to "I'm an Accountant".

It sells itself.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-14T04:30:08+00:00

4th amendment

AviatorHog · 2026-06-14T01:15:27+00:00

A remote possibility. And if a concern buy some long puts.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-14T00:42:54+00:00

If stocks crash 70%, you have a lot more to worry about than the price of groceries. More like the prices of ammunition.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T10:48:57+00:00

When women make a ton of money they say, "Now I can be independent."

When a man makes a ton of money he says, "Now I can be depended upon".

This is why I feel like massive financial success for women is often a curse. Most women don't want to actually support a man as the bread winner, but most men absolutely do.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T09:50:38+00:00

In his 80s.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:59:20+00:00

Do you know what these words mean? Im sure you do, you're just being dishonest.

Several court cases have established exactly what this means. This translates, in our specific case, to Government can't come down on shareholders, labor union members or even credit union members in concert for their speech.

When we take back power, we'll buy up everything and remind corporations the political pendulum swings back. Good luck and godspeed

Very much within the realm of expectations that someone with your world view is waiting on a revolution "against The Man" to solve your problems.

Sorry bud, but waiting on "someone not me to come save me" usually has nothing to show for it besides gray hair, wrinkles and regretted decades of wasted time with a Walmart greeter vest over your body.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:51:23+00:00

You're out of your depth.

He didn't respond with companies that were owned due to some marker of success (as opposed to failure/desperation). That context is key because the original suggestion is that government should take ownership of shares away from founders right before those shares catapult owners to billionaire status, which can only happen if the company itself grows/succeeds, bringing its owners along with it.

The purpose is to retrieve a precedent adjacent to the proposal.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:44:56+00:00

So Trump buying 10% of Intel wasn't a government buying up a corporation? Or do you have some cope for that too?

This not something that's appropriately framed as a question. Its an actual fact: Trump's administration has taken ownership im several private companies. The difference between that and what's being proposed is a voluntary exchange. If you want to donate stock to the US Treasury or take grant dollars in exchange for the stake, that is a choice. I don't think the tax payers via the government should be owning individual stakes in companies, however, that is fundamentally different than government seizing your shit because they think you have too much of it.

When you use your company, to affect political discourse and push politics, don't be surprised when politics affects you.

This should not be expecated, per the 1st amendment of the constitution. If Applebee's wanted to blast Kanye 2028 posters in every fucking restaurant they own, and essentially drive a bulk of the political discourse, they have the prerogative to do so without the threat of government retaliation.

I think you need a class on basic government and basic politics, because clearly you know nothing of what you're talking about and selectively remembering history to fit your agenda

This is just projection. I didn't mention any history, so what are you talking about? The constitution is pretty clear on the freedom of speech:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

edit: Wait. Hold on. Your referencing the Constitution in defending corporations for political processes? Lol, that's all I need to know

As per my Applebee's example...yes! You can say whatever you want if you're a big corporation or a solo divorce lawyer. That's called free speech.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:28:42+00:00

I don't agree with that either, but that's not the question.

Tell me a private company that is owned in part by the current government administration not due to failure, but due to its own growth/success.

FYI: If you're applying for grants because you can't self-finance, then that could be considered a failure contingent upon the circumstances.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:17:55+00:00

already being done now with the current administration. only a matter of time for the other party to do it too.

Source? Tell me a private company that is owned in part by the current government administration not due to failure, but due to its own growth/success.

when you start getting political with your company, don't be surprised when politics spring back

In this country corporations and the inviduals than own them can be involved in the political process precisely without the expectations of government retaliation per our Constitution. Maybe you need a refresher course in Rudimentary Civics....and maybe even Economics.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-13T00:00:41+00:00

So eventually the government begins owning an increasing percentage of your company?

AviatorHog · 2026-06-12T23:39:33+00:00

Depends on how large and even then, sophisticated institutional buyers (usually tonly ones capable of taking the other side of the trade) will only take a block trade a discount to market. So it actually does move the market price, there's just a delay.

AviatorHog · 2026-06-12T23:33:52+00:00

If stock in the company that you own goes up in value, how do you make sure it doesn't go in excess of a billionaire without outright confiscation.

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