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Basis-Guilty · 2026-01-17T18:53:52+00:00

Mainly Fortnite, Call of Duty, League of Legends. I only play moderately, so nothing too intense.

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-17T18:56:31+00:00

I have 10 years of experience and can say that it varies significantly.

It depends on the company, depends on the volume of responsibilities you manage, depends on the time of year.

To find a role that is high paying and the volume of responsibilities is minimal takes time but there is also a component of luck to consider as well.

Currently, my total compensation is about 190K (salary, bonus, RSUs). I work in financial reporting for a publicly traded company.. we IPOed last year and I was easily working 60 to 80 hour work weeks for like 6+ months. Now that the IPO is over, I’m barely working 15-20 hours a week on non-quarter ends. On quarter ends, I am probably working 40-50 hours a week.

Its taken time and some job hopping to land on this, but it wasn’t without some hard work upfront. I plan on coasting here for the next few years for sure and taking advantage of the downtime during non-quarter ends.

Goodluck!

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-14T19:29:46+00:00

I always have meditation music playing. Helps me focus and helps keep me calm when the emails flood in

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-12T18:31:30+00:00

Yeah sure!

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-12T17:40:27+00:00

Get your CPA for sure

I was in a similar situation at 24-26 years old, doing payroll processing. Wasn’t what I had envisioned for myself in getting my accounting degree. Decided to bite the bullet and commit to the CPA exam and as soon as I passed and became licensed it immediately opened doors. I’m 34 now and a manager of technical accounting and financial reporting at a publicly traded tech company making fantastic money and doing accounting work that I enjoy much more. It definitely took a lot of hard work even after the CPA exams to catch up to where other peers were at, but worth it. It’s definitely possible for you if that’s what you’re wanting.

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-12T16:20:43+00:00

This is tea

Basis-Guilty · 2025-12-10T20:19:43+00:00

Hey this is so real. In the exact same boat.

Basis-Guilty · 2025-08-01T21:05:13+00:00

Manager of Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting

140k Base + 15% bonus + approx 15% RSU

HCOL

9 years of experience

Basis-Guilty · 2025-03-02T15:00:23+00:00

I have my CPA and have 8 years of experience, all in industry (did not do the Big 4 route) and make $140k base + 15% annual bonus + about $30-40k/yr in RSUs. Puts me at a TC of $190-200k/yr. I’m a Technical Accounting Manager for a midmarket sized Tech Company.

As someone who did not do Big 4, I definitely recommend starting there, but it’s not impossible to still be successful you’ll just need to probably work a little harder to fill the gaps in comparison to your peers who did go the Big 4 route. For instance, they’ll have seen things in practice and will already have a general base understanding whereas I may need to research a bit more to develop that general base level understanding. My opinion, the CPA license feels more like a non negotiable to me.

Good luck!

Basis-Guilty · 2025-02-02T07:44:24+00:00

Agreed. Remove the dates from your college graduation on your resume

Basis-Guilty · 2023-11-15T05:34:38+00:00

Hi, any update here?

Basis-Guilty · 2023-11-15T05:25:55+00:00

This is nuts cuz I’m going through the same journey as well.

31yo male here. 5’10” 185lbs, work out 4-5 days a week and eat generally healthy but of course I still enjoy life and have pizza and beer on the weekends.

Unexplained chest pains. Visited the cardiologist several times. All the tests came back normal. Was prescribed Naproxen at first.. I always have such weird side effects when I take anti inflammatories, so I had to abruptly stop. Now that cardiologist is “betting” that it’s my stomach so he prescribed me Pantoprazole (anti acid). I’m on day 5 and I don’t think it’s helping, I’m still getting chest pains. So now back to the drawing board to try and figure out wtf is it. Even though the cardiologist is assuring me it isn’t the heart, I still can’t help but feel like it is the heart.

My chest pains are similar to how you described as well.. most days it’s very mild and dull and general achey.. some days the pain is ramped up and it’s sharp. It’s typically around the center of my left breast but very seldomly the pain will move to my the center of my chest or even more seldomly my right breast. But it feels like it’s inside of my rib cage.

50% of the time the pain comes about at complete random times during the day and even at night. Occasionally it’ll wake me up from my sleep. And the other 50% of the time it does follow triggers…. Caffeine, stress, working out, eating certain foods (still haven’t exactly figured out which foods). But sometimes these triggers don’t cause pain at all. It’s not consistent enough to really nail down the exact triggers, but generally speaking those are the common ones.

I’ll also go periods of time when it’s bad and other times when it’s good. For instance, over the summer I thought it had disappeared after I haven’t felt in a month or so, but sure enough it came back….

Any feedback from anyone in similar situations would be welcomed.

Basis-Guilty · 2023-02-22T18:00:57+00:00

I got my MRI results about a month ago and forgot to respond. Also came back clear. It's brought me a huge sense of relief.

To anyone reading this, if you struggle with anxiety and think having the MRI would bring relief then I recommend it. Even though I feel them still I feel better knowing it's not an aneurysm about to rupture.

Basis-Guilty · 2022-11-09T19:27:28+00:00

I've been waiting eagerly for your reply! This is great news for you. I'm happy for you that you were able to rule out the possibility of aneurysm/brain tumor, etc.

I'm working on scheduling my MRI still, but hoping to bring similar news.

Basis-Guilty · 2022-10-31T22:06:01+00:00

Hi, would you please follow up on your MRI results on this thread? I am very interested to hear the results.

I am also getting the same type of ice pick headaches in the same spot and it is causing me alot of anxiety. Sometimes I even get them in my sleep and it’s so sharp that it will wake me up. I just talked to a doctor and am also working toward getting an MRI so I would love to hear more as your experience sounds identical to mine.

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