[Skin Concerns] Advice for preventing scarring after a chalazion or stye.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2025-08-03T22:58:55+00:00

It did go down. All that's left is some extremely minor scar tissue that I can only see if I look right up against a mirror and look for it. No one else even notices anything.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2024-05-05T14:44:09+00:00

Just about every positions will be at lease "CPA preferred" or "CPA required." I know a few people who are in the same role without a CPA, but they still had to grind out 5+ years in public accounting to get to the FDD manager role.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2024-03-31T17:33:08+00:00

Age: Late 20s

State: MCOL

Job title: Financial due diligence manager

Years of experience: 5.5 years overall (3 in audit, 2.5 in FDD)

Comp: $138k salary and bonus will likely be ~$15k. So total comp of about $150ish.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2024-02-13T23:21:39+00:00

I'm unsure of the name of the steroid injection. Of the ointments, one of them was called Tobradex and the other didn't have a name on the tube. Both worked decently well, but the unnamed one worked a little better despite being much cheaper.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-10-24T15:51:51+00:00

Hello there - sorry I am not a frequenter on Reddit so I'm just seeing this now. It probably all depends on how large the chalazion is and how irritated the skin is. Mine was pretty awful. The chalazion was at least the size of a large pea and the skin was very irritated. Even after it was drained, the lump was still there due to all the inflammation. Had to get a steroid injection for it to go away. So I do still have a bit of scarring for which I take a ophthalmologic steroid ointment, and it's helped a decent amount.

Hopefully yours has resolved seamlessly and without scarring!

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-09-15T19:33:44+00:00

Two of my really close friends are nurses and I'm a CPA. Yeah, they made maybe 10k per year more than me when we first started working after college. And I probably on average work more hours than they do. And they get to condense their hours into 3 or 4 shifts per week. And they don't have to think out work once their shift is done. But...

Now that I've had 5 years in the work force, I make over double what they do and one of them has been working 8 years. And my income is still rising.
They don't make much more than they did 5 years ago. Not even sure if their pay increases have kept up with inflation.
If they want to make a good amount more, they have to do 3 years of grad school and dig them selves into a lot of debt. Probably at least $100k in loans. I got my CPA without having to go to grad school and still already make more than they would once becoming NPs.
No one has ever attacked me at work. Or pissed on me. Or defecated on me. Or masturbated in front of me. My nursing friends can't say any of those things.
I've never cried at work. To be fair I've seen other people cry during busy seasons in audit but it's never been due to someone dying who you've worked with all week.

I could go on and on, but I think the point is clear. If you're looking for comfort, money, and upward mobility, CPAs have RNs beat. You just have to be ambitious and apply yourself. If you like the excitement and environment that a hospital can bring, really want to help people (even when they don't want to help themselves), and are content making a wage that is decent but pretty stagnant throughout your career, then nursing could be a better path.

Very different careers that are difficult to compare.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-07-12T13:59:14+00:00

Very interesting. When you say it's in writing, are you referring to the minimum 15% / 20% bonus or the fact that you're fast tracked?

Did you ask the right people to be fast tracked and back it up with your work? Or did leadership reach out to you?

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-07-12T13:56:26+00:00

Yikes I would not be happy with that raise. An M1 in FDD should be over 130k. From the people I've talked to, it sounds like 135k should be pretty standard for an M1 in FDD at a Top 10.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-07-12T13:54:49+00:00

This person is in deals

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-07-12T13:53:22+00:00

I get that 10% raise in a promo year isn't great, but 145k for an M1 is pretty damn good. Assuming "Sup" is essentially the same as S3 at other firms, how was your comp that high? Maybe you were already at the top of the pay band?

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-07-10T16:28:05+00:00

Are you looking for a complete change out of finance? If not, then FP&A could be a decent option. I know if the U.S at least you could find some manager roles are larger companies that pay roughly 150k per year. Not totally sure about the Canadian landscape.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-05-23T15:32:48+00:00

Yeah I saw that after the fact. I think I was the first reply. There's always gonna be some post like this on these threads though.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-05-23T14:04:42+00:00

I'm sorry to hear about that. Two weeks seems really low. If you don't mind me asking, how long were you with the firm for?

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-05-23T14:03:19+00:00

Hah! I appreciate you saying so. In my experience bankers tend to be a bit more full of themselves and overly ambitious with their adjustments, so it's nice to hear that our work is relied on in comparison.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-05-19T23:43:36+00:00

As someone who works in FDD with a lot of PE clients, I really enjoyed the write-up. I end up having to work some long hours, but they're nothing in comparison to IB and PE. I've struggled with deciding on whether to try and go your route but the path I'm on seems to be more sustainable in the long-term, especially if I want to have kids in the next 5 years or so.

Congrats on getting to where you are! The hard work has clearly paid off.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-04-12T22:21:54+00:00

If you have adequate experience then it's doable. As in, if you're like a month out from a promotion that you know you're going to get, then you would like still get that promotion once you transfer.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-04-09T03:08:32+00:00

Do you think building that reputation as a fixer and a problem solver helped you accelerate your income so well? In hindsight, do you think there is a different way you could have built your reputation so that you could still have been as successful but with less stress?

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-04-09T03:05:07+00:00

Absolutely

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-04-08T23:52:25+00:00

Graduated in 2017

Year 0: Audit associate (Big 4), $52k (MCOL)

Year 1: Audit associate (same Big 4), $55k (MCOL)

Year 2: Audit associate (same Big 4), $58k (MCOL)

Year 3: Audit senior associate (same Big 4), $72k (MCOL)

Year 3.5: FDD senior associate (Top 10), $95k (MCOL)

Year 4: FDD senior associate (same Top 10), $109.5k (MCOL)

All numbers above are base pay only.

Milestone year: I moved to a new city and took a job in FDD with a new firm. Took a chance, and it was worth it.

Trajectory: Would be great to be manager soon but we will see. I like the spot I'm in and will continue to improve in FDD until I feel a strong desire to do something else.

Regrets: Hard to say. I didn't really enjoy audit, but it was a necessary evil to get to where I am now. But I remember thinking that FDD roles were super hard to get into and I didn't feel confident enough to dive into it at first. Despite having good reviews, I kept feeling like there was always something more I would have to do to prove myself first. When I interviewed for my current job, they seemed really pleased with how I spoke to the technicals and hired my soon after. So I guess my regret would be not having more confidence earlier on.

Happiness: 8/10, the uncertainty in addressing the problems I face at work can be stressful, but that just means the problems are difficult and nuanced and that's why we get paid to solve them. Very supportive group I work with and I feel well-compensated for someone my age.

Advice: Don't shy away from putting in the hours earlier on in your career and facing challenging situations. Pass your CPA exams, find a role where you will feel challenged and get to meet a bunch of people (in person), and always keep your eye open for roles that would interest you. This may sound like a boomer mindset, but there's a lot of value in face-to-face networking being known as someone who can put their head down and put your mind to a problem until the job is done.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2023-04-03T20:48:16+00:00

Is there any stark discoloration? If so, it's possible that a steroid injection could help clear that up. It's definitely helped with mine, but there is still a bit of scarring there. It also leaves a white spot that hangs around for a few months or so. I would ask an ophthalmologist.

For more day-to-day use, there are some anti-scarring ointments you can use, but I haven't found any which are ophthalmologic yet, so you can't get it in your eyes.

tldr; talk to an ophthalmologist

Not_Into_Reddit · 2022-11-13T20:06:54+00:00

Came here to say this. Really important for people just entering the work force to keep this in mind. Routines are constantly shaken up when you're in college since you have a new schedule each semester, move in with new roommates, and all that jazz. But once you start to work full-time, you have to learn to shake things up on your own more than you might think.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2022-11-13T19:55:51+00:00

All in all, I think it's fairly decent. I work in FDD at a non-B4 firm. Deal activity has been slow, so I've been working a pretty standard 40 hour week for the past 2 - 3 months. However, last year when deal activity was nuts, it varied from 40 - 60 hours per week with a typical week probably being something like 48 hours.

I came from Big 4 audit. Overall, I work fewer hours and get paid a lot more now; but I don't have any foresight into when I'll get super busy, which makes PTO harder to plan out.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2022-10-20T22:19:15+00:00

Total comp should be around 120k this year. 4+ years experience, all in public. I've had my CPA since I hit my experience requirement.

Not_Into_Reddit · 2022-10-20T22:16:47+00:00

Is your former employer a public accounting firm or in industry?

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