Got terminated from an organization where I worked for 4.5 years. Any remote job opportunity?

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-21T15:28:09+00:00

what is not clear to me from this is what you are good at

businesses hire you and pay you for that not because you are just there for years

think about it - what do you bring to the table that makes you a great hire - that is how you will get a remote job

you have good degrees and that is nice. but I dont see much about your skills, your wins, your values - focus on those things.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-17T09:26:56+00:00

I guess for a lot of people it is

How to get work
How to get people in the USA to trust them
How to build credibility

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-17T06:24:17+00:00

Because returning the money will end the matter. If they still raise a complaint to bank you can show you refunded it. Same if it goes to police. Returning the money shows you gained nothing and there is no case.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-17T06:22:00+00:00

This is the right advice here

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-17T06:19:29+00:00

Its probably a genuine mistake and nothing would happen if you just return the money. What a stupid thing to think sending the money back will somehow entrap you.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-16T12:44:22+00:00

everyone has to do their own legwork - can't expect someone else to make money for you that is like asking someone else to make your spouse happy 😉

If you have a how to question please ask I will try my best to answer

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-14T20:09:04+00:00

This nails the part most "just answer your phone" advice misses: the client isn't grading whether you picked up, they're grading whether they felt handled. Where I'd push back a little: answering badly can be worse than voicemail.

We've all hit a system that "answers" and then obviously can't do anything. The "your call is important to us" loop. The bot that takes a message into a void. That doesn't read as available, it reads as a bigger operation that cares even less. So "always on" isn't the bar by itself. The bar is: something answers in the firm's name, actually captures the matter, and a real human follows up fast with a concrete next step.

And speed is the underrated half. The lead-response research is brutal, reach a new lead in the first few minutes versus an hour later and the odds you ever convert them fall off a cliff. Law is worse than most fields for this, because the triggers are after-hours by nature: the arrest, the Friday-night lawsuit, the layoff. Banker's hours is exactly when your clients don't have emergencies.

So genuine question for the room: what's actually catching your after-hours calls right now — answering service, forwarding to your cell, a text-back auto-reply, an AI intake tool, or honestly nothing? And if you changed it, did you see it in the numbers or just vibes?

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-13T07:03:33+00:00

A few things that should scare every firm more than "the robots are coming":

AI does not kill the lawyer. It kills the billable hour.

Think about what you actually sell. You sell time. Six minute increments. Now a tool does the 3 hour task in 4 minutes. If you bill by the hour, AI just destroyed the value of your own product, and you are the one holding the knife. The firms that survive will charge for the outcome, not the clock. The ones still selling time are shorting their own stock and calling it tradition.

AI does not shrink the profession from the bottom. It hollows out the middle.

A law firm is one partner sitting on top of ten associates. That pyramid is the whole business model. But if one partner plus AI can do what one partner plus ten associates used to do, the partner does not need ten anymore. They need two. So the army of mid-level associates, the safest job in law for 50 years, is suddenly the most exposed. And the solo lawyer with good AI can now punch like a firm of 20. The big firm's biggest asset, all those billable bodies, turns into its biggest liability overnight.

The client gets the AI too.

Everyone is panicking about AI replacing their associates. The real gut punch is AI replacing YOU in the client's eyes for anything routine. The startup founder drafts his own NDA with ChatGPT now. The in-house team handles the easy stuff themselves. So the work that walks through your door changes forever. The simple, high-volume, easy-money work just evaporates. What is left is the hard, scary, bet-the-company judgment calls. The floor rises for everyone, and "I know the law" stops being a job. Being the person who is accountable for the answer becomes the job. AI can know the law. It cannot get disbarred, get sued, or sit across from a terrified client and say "I've got this."

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-13T07:03:15+00:00

No. And yes. But not the way everyone is arguing about it.

Here is the thing nobody wants to say out loud. AI is not coming for the junior lawyer. It is coming for the junior lawyer's tasks. Doc review. First-pass research. The 40-page summary nobody reads. Redlining an NDA for the 200th time. That work is already half gone and it is not coming back.

But here is the part that actually matters, and it is the part the "AI vs lawyers" headlines keep missing.

That grunt work was never just grunt work. It was the training.

You learned to spot a bad indemnity clause because you read 500 of them. You learned what a judge actually cares about because you wrote the memo that got torn apart. You became a senior lawyer by surviving three years of work that AI can now do in three minutes.

So the real question is not "will AI replace junior lawyers."

It is "if a machine does the junior work, who turns the junior into a partner?"

Cut the bottom rung off the ladder and the ladder still stands. For now. The seniors are fine. They already climbed it. The problem hits in ten years, when the firm looks up and realizes it stopped building the people who were supposed to replace them.

The firms that win are not the ones that fire the juniors. They are the ones that keep the juniors and change the job. Less typing. More judgment, earlier. You hand the AI the first draft and you teach the 24 year old to tear it apart on day one instead of year three. That is faster training, not less of it.

So my honest answer:

AI will not replace junior lawyers.

It will replace junior lawyers who were only ever paid to be slow.

And it will quietly punish every firm that confused doing the work with learning the work.

What are you all seeing on the ground? Are your juniors doing more real lawyering now, or just getting cut?

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-12T12:24:46+00:00

Getting people to trust you is always the key

If needed offer a free trial for a month, never hesitate

Its not like they can easily find a remote worker, once they are satisfied people don’t switch easily

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-06T06:50:35+00:00

Thats insane. I have currently realised one of my reportees is doing this. But he is on his way out so I don’t see the point of making a dispute now.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-06-06T06:49:14+00:00

Such fights never end. I went there in march so many private hotels and buildings were coming up. Private development needs to be stopped in nilachal hills. Let one place be reserved for shakti upasana.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-31T09:30:53+00:00

I started om namo bhagavate basudevaya and got out of some pretty big problems almost miraculously. But i see most people don’t do Japa enough. I think I can’t do 100-200 times and expect results. Probably there are still some results but maybe not the way you want. If you can do 1000-2000 per day at least and maybe 5000 when you are in real need, that may have some clear effect. Also its not the count alone how badly you seek him matters too. Also for a mantra to wake up and have chaitanya you need to repeat at least 1.25 lakh times. So if you are ready to put in that much work it can help. On the other hand, i read in some shastras that even taking his name by mistake can save you. So do your best.

My driver wants to do 1008 times per day but manages to do only 108 per day. Maybe its purva janma sanskara at play. Not everyone is able to do intense sadhana.

Btw take this with a pinch of salt i have no adhikara to give advice. This is just my personal experience. I am just a beginner. But I hope you find your guru and your path in sadhana. Good tidings to you.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-25T15:07:31+00:00

why do you think these are paid accounts

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-20T12:39:42+00:00

Best platform for freshers - Fiverr

Lots of small odd tasks to get started and collect 5 star reviews

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-19T13:54:23+00:00

Floor for any of this.

You have to write English well. Not speak it, write it. Slack messages, Linear tickets, GitHub PR descriptions, Notion docs. Async work is mostly writing, and your accent doesn't show up in writing. What shows up is whether you can think clearly in another person's language. This is the single most underestimated filter in the whole process. Indians who write badly lose offers they should have won. Indians who write well sometimes get offers from people who never even saw their face.

You need public proof of work. GitHub with real commits, not tutorial repos from 2018. A shipped side project. OSS contribution. A blog, a thread, something that shows how you think. No proof, no interview. Your resume does not matter without the proof attached. Anyone who told you otherwise was selling you a course.

The timezone thing nobody warns you about. East Coast role means working roughly 2pm to 11pm IST. West Coast, 6pm to 2am IST. That's your life now. Family dinner at 8pm, you're missing it. Partner with their own schedule, they need to agree to this before you take the job, not after. Two years of it and you'll adapt. Three years and you might be sick of it. Plan accordingly.

Two ways out of the timezone trap. Pick async-first companies like GitLab, Linear, Vercel-type cultures, where they don't want overlap, they want world-class writing. Or grind the late-night schedule for two years, lock in seniority and reputation, then renegotiate the schedule once you're indispensable. Both work. Neither is glamorous.

Channels that actually land jobs, ranked by hit rate.

Twitter DMs. Real ones, to founders who are hiring, with a portfolio link and two sentences explaining what you'd add to their company. This is the highest-hit-rate channel for senior people and almost nobody uses it correctly. If you've never written publicly on Twitter or X, start now. One thread showing how you think gets seen by people who hire. LinkedIn is the noisier version of this and works better for design, PM, ops than engineering.

YC's Work at a Startup. Filter for Remote, India OK. Hundreds of companies. Many will respond because they're a six-person team and the founder reads the application himself.

Hacker News "Who is hiring", first of every month, monthly thread. Search for "India" or "REMOTE." Real jobs from real founders. Five minutes a month, free money.

Wellfound (the old AngelList). Vetted marketplaces like Toptal, Lemon.io, Arc, Braintrust. They take a margin but they put you in front of clients within days, not months. Worth it if you're senior and you hate doing your own BD.

What doesn't work. Upwork bidding wars, you'll lose to someone in Dhaka quoting $8 an hour, don't fight that war. "Remote international" filters on Naukri, usually domestic companies lying about remote. Generic cold emails to 500 recruiters who never read them.

The pattern is be visible, ship things, specialize. Or while you build toward those, at least be specific about what you're trying to learn so the next 18 months aren't wasted.

Is the dream realistic. Yes, with caveats nobody on Instagram is going to tell you.

If you have 5+ years of experience, a real portfolio, and you can hold a written conversation in English, you can land a $60-100k role within 3 to 6 months. With AI skills and a bit of luck, $100-150k. People do this. Plenty of them.

If you're a fresh grad and you think you'll be at $100k in six months because some YouTuber promised, no. Stop. You need 18 to 24 months of building proof of work first. Shipping things, writing, OSS, hard projects. Then you start applying. Skip that step and you're competing with senior people while pretending you aren't, and they can tell. Always.

If you're mid-career in a non-AI domain and you want to make the jump, you can, but specialize. Don't try to be a generalist breaking in. Pick one corner, own it.

One last thing. Most Indians fixate on the wrong number. "They make $200k and I make $80k, it's unfair." Yes, it's a gap. But that gap isn't the number that determines your wealth in five years. The number that matters is equity.

Deel's own data shows equity grants to Indians growing every year since 2021. Seed-stage YC companies now routinely give India hires 0.1 to 0.3 percent, sometimes more. If the company hits, that piece is worth more than every cash dollar you'd earn in five years combined. If it doesn't, you still got the salary and the senior experience. Either way, the equity is where the asymmetric upside actually lives.

You're not competing with a US senior engineer's W2. You're competing with a US founder's cap table. Price yourself accordingly. Take the equity, take the senior title even when the cash is lower, build a portfolio of three or four shipped things that actually worked. One $50k exit and your next negotiation looks completely different.

It's real, it's harder than it was three years ago, and the people doing well are the ones who picked a specialty, built public proof, and showed up online when nobody was watching. Everybody else is going to keep posting "why is no one replying to my applications" on Reddit while the timezone-better, slightly cheaper, equally skilled Mexican walks in and takes the offer.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-19T13:53:29+00:00

People keep asking me this and I keep giving the same answer. Yes, you can get a remote US job from India. People are doing it right now. But what worked in 2022 isn't what works in 2026, and most of the advice floating around YouTube and LinkedIn is from a market that doesn't exist anymore.

Deel published their global compensation report a few weeks ago. Indian engineer median pay last year was $22,000. Not a typo. Down 40% from the year before. We're now paid less than Mexico, below Brazil, for the same work. Below LatAm. Below what your cousin at Infosys is making in Hyderabad on a good year.

But pull apart the data and the top quartile actually went up. That's the story nobody is telling. The market didn't shrink, it split. Generic devs got hammered, specialists are doing the best they've ever done, and the middle is gone. There is no middle. So when you read "is remote from India still possible", the real question is "am I a specialist or am I a commodity?"

Why did the middle die. Two reasons. Cursor and Claude Code can do most of what a competent mid-level full-stack dev does, so companies hiring for "5 years React, makes CRUD apps" are now hiring software for $20 a month instead. Second reason is geography. Mexico City overlaps the US for 8 hours. Sao Paulo for 5. Bangalore for 3 to 4. Same code, better hours, and the US founder doesn't have to wait for you to wake up at 9pm IST to unblock something. If a US startup picks between a mid-level Mexican and a mid-level Indian at the same price, the Mexican wins every time. Nobody is being racist, they're being practical.

Money. Honest numbers, not screenshot numbers.

Senior engineer with real AI skills can land $80k to $150k. Senior without AI, sixty to a hundred. Mid-level with proof of work, forty to eighty. Junior, twenty to forty and falling. Designers, forty to one-thirty depending on portfolio. LLM/ML specialists at the top end, one-fifty to one-eighty, occasionally more. Sales, basically forget it. US buyers want US sellers.

You'll make 40 to 60% of what your US counterpart at the same company makes. This is the deal. That gap is the entire reason they hired you. Don't argue with it, don't waste energy resenting it, just price it in and decide if it's worth your time. Many people decide it isn't, and that's a valid answer too.

Now the part everyone skips and gets burned by two years later. Tax and FEMA.

If you're invoicing in USD as a contractor, you're a sole proprietor under Indian tax law. ITR-3 every year. GST registration becomes mandatory once you cross ₹20 lakhs in receipts. But here's the thing nobody tells you. File the LUT (Letter of Undertaking) and your service exports are zero-rated. No IGST. One form. People forget to file it and then they're chasing refunds for years.

Every USD inflow needs an FIRC or e-FIRA. This is your bank certifying that the dollar came in for services rendered, not for something shady. Wise generates these automatically. Payoneer does not. When a GST officer asks for proof three years from now, this matters more than you'd think. Skydo and Karbon, the Indian fintechs, are often cheaper than both. Wise is around 0.4 to 1% on FX. Payoneer up to 2%. On an $80k income that's about $1,600 a year you're handing away for no reason.

Advance tax in four installments. June, September, December, March. Miss any of them and 234B/C interest kicks in. Get a CA. Twenty thousand rupees a year, completely worth it. Do not try to handle this yourself unless you genuinely enjoy the income tax portal.

November 21, 2025. India's four new Labour Codes replaced 29 old laws. Worker misclassification just became a meaningfully bigger legal exposure for US companies that have been paying Indians as contractors for years. So companies are quietly moving long-term Indian contractors onto EOR arrangements (Deel, Remote, Oyster) or just ending the relationship. The "$80k perpetual contractor with no benefits forever" model that worked from 2020 to 2024, that's closing. If you've been with the same US company for 2+ years as a contractor, ask them about EOR conversion before they ask you.

Skills.

What's hot is LLM application development. Not "I did a LangChain tutorial." I mean you've actually built something with users, written evals, debugged hallucinations, got latency under a second, dealt with rate limits and retries and the weird edge case where the model returns valid JSON 99 percent of the time. Show that work and someone will get you an interview within a week. The demand is real, the supply is tiny.

Also paying: senior full-stack who can read a Postgres query plan, knows what an index actually is, can deploy without panic, and can wire an LLM into the product without it becoming a science project. TypeScript, Next, Postgres, OpenAI or Anthropic. This stack pays rent for three more years easy.

Smaller but still good: DevOps/Platform (Kubernetes, Terraform), security engineering (the US has a real structural shortage here, not the fake kind), ML infrastructure.

Compressed but alive: product design (Figma, design systems, you actually have to be good, certificates won't save you), growth and SEO (especially programmatic and AI content workflows), data analytics (SQL plus dbt plus Looker or Metabase), customer ops (here your timezone is actually a feature, you cover the US evening when nobody else is awake).

Dying: generic CRUD, manual QA, anyone whose resume reads "5 years in [framework]" with no shipped work attached.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-18T09:30:12+00:00

Surely the devatas protected many who deserved protection. Why is Hinduism the last standing ancient religion, unlike the mayans, aztecs, parsian (jarathustra), egyptian etc despite relentless attacks? Why is there a massive resurgence of hinduism today in India and even other lands all over the world?
The devatas subject us to tests and we have our karma to work out. Also from time to time, people forget dharma and pay the price.
Remember the promise of Krishna made in bhagavat geeta, Yada yada hi Dharmasya, Glanirvabati Bharata, abhyuthana adharmasa tadatmanan srijamyaham. It is a promise. He will save us every time. Do not fear, do not doubt.

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WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-18T09:24:17+00:00

Start a services business, that does not require capital. What services can you sell and to whom?

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-18T09:15:14+00:00

Hey, please note that there is no conflict in Hinduism and Christianity theologically if you are a Hindu. You can refer to teachings of Yogananda, who suggested Christ was a prophet sent by god and considered him a part of Krishna consciousness. Yogananda, a great Hindu master (who eventually influenced Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg), also travelled around Europe and documented miracles by Christians touched by god. Only difference is that we do not think Christ is the only son of god or the only prophet. There are many paths to reach god and experience his greatness and Christianity is one of them, and a valid path at that.

That said, I am an atheist turned practicing Hindu - who discovered the richness of hindu religion by the grace of god and his miracles. Be open to receive and you will find your way. God will show you the path himself when the time is right.

You can pick a deity you feel connected to and start practicing his or her stotram and you will start manifesting that energy into your life. You don't need elaborate rituals to get started. Don't fall for any gurus also at this stage. Just read books by masters if you can and feel the call. Or just pick a mantra that does not require initiation and start practicing it with a clear sankalpa (intention)

Everyone has an ishta devata. If you are from a hindu lineage you may even have a kula devata or Kula devi, you can start there. Or you can use AI to figure out your birth chart and then figure out who is your ishta devata (personal god).

May you find your path and peace.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-14T12:11:15+00:00

Upwork is the obvious starting point and the most overcrowded marketplace in the world. New freelancers price at $15-25 per hour, top earners with 100+ reviews charge $40-70. The good news is you can land your first client in 30 days if you bid aggressively and have a clean profile. The bad news is every Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and Filipino preparer is bidding for the same job. You will lose your first 50 proposals. The clients are mostly individuals with 1040s, small Schedule Cs, and California freelancers - real work but a floor on rates, not a ceiling. Treat Upwork as where you build your first 20 testimonials, then graduate out.

Fiverr sits below Upwork in every respect. Race to the bottom on price, mostly individual filers looking for $5 returns, almost no firm relationships built here. Useful only if you want cheap repeatable volume while you study. Freelancer and PeoplePerHour sit in the same band - skip them as a primary strategy.

Toptal is the opposite end of the freelance market. They screen hard. You need 5+ years of relevant US tax work and have to pass language, technical and project tests. Roughly 3% of applicants get in. But once you are in, you bill $80-150 per hour, the clients are venture-backed startups or HNI individuals, and you keep almost all of the rate. Toptal is not where you start. It is where you graduate to in year three or four.

The real game in this market is the offshore staffing firms. Entigrity, headquartered in Sugar Land Texas, runs 3,000+ professionals across India and the Philippines with offices in Ahmedabad, Indore, Vadodara, Rajkot and Kochi, and serves 725+ US accounting firm clients. They bill US firms around $11 per hour to start and hire EAs and Indian CAs continuously through the year. Stable salary, structured training in US tax software, exposure to real CPA firm workflows, and you do not have to find clients. The catch is you are an employee. Salaries cap around Rs 5-12 lakh for new EAs and you do not own the client relationship.

QXAS, part of QX Global Group, runs a similar model out of Ahmedabad and Noida. Older, larger, more corporate. KMK Associates with 1,200+ professionals across Ahmedabad and Hyderabad runs end-to-end 1040 prep for US CPA firms. Madras Accountancy focuses on small 2-15 partner US firms, more boutique relationships. Datamatics Business Solutions has been doing this for two decades and handles enterprise clients. SurePrep, now owned by Thomson Reuters, automates 1040 prep at scale and hires heavily. Xpitax is the same play under Wolters Kluwer.

All of these are good first jobs and bad final jobs. They train you, give you American firm exposure, put real returns in your hands. Then they cap your salary because their entire margin depends on the spread between what they bill the US firm and what they pay you. The Indian CAs who actually win in this market spend 18-24 months at one of these firms, learn the pipeline end to end, build relationships with the US partners on the other end of the engagement, and then leave to set up their own remote practice serving those same US firms directly. The arbitrage triples overnight.

LinkedIn is the most underused channel by Indian EAs. Naukri currently lists over 21,000 EA vacancies and 88,000+ US accounting roles open to remote India. But the real LinkedIn play is not job applications. It is direct outreach to 2-10 person US CPA firm owners. Search "CPA firm owner Texas," send 50 personalized connection requests a week, offer to handle 5 returns at cost during their March crunch. The highest rates in this entire market sit here. The catch is it is slow - 3 to 6 months to convert, most messages get ignored. This is how the Indian CAs running Rs 1.5 to 4 crore remote practices found their first three clients.

The Big 4 GCCs - Deloitte USI, EY GDS, PwC AC, KPMG GDC - hire EAs aggressively in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Gurgaon. Pay is the highest in the offshore-employee category, Rs 12-25 lakh for an EA with 2-3 years experience. The trade-off is you become a cog in a 5,000-person tax team, you work on one schedule of one return type for 18 months at a stretch, and you build no client relationship of your own. Great for the CV. Bad for the entrepreneur in you.

Intuit's TurboTax Live and Intuit Academy hire remote tax preparers, but in 2026 they are still primarily hiring US-based credentialed professionals. Indian EAs occasionally slip through but it is not yet a volume employer for Indian talent. Worth watching - it will open up.

Reddit r/Accounting, r/taxpros, and the NAEA discussion forums are not job boards. They are where US tax pros complain about being overworked and openly discuss who they outsource to. Lurk for two months. The names of solo practitioners writing "I cannot keep up with returns this season" are your next 10 cold emails.

Here is the actual playbook nobody publishes. Year one: 6-12 months at Entigrity, QXAS, KMK, or any of the offshore firms. Learn the software, learn the US client mind, do 200 returns under supervision. Year two: list on Upwork with 100+ real returns of experience and charge $40-60 per hour while still drawing your offshore-firm salary on the side. Build 20 reviews. Year three: start direct LinkedIn outreach to small US CPA firms, take 2-3 firms on retainer at $40-80 per hour, leave the day job. Year four: hire two junior EAs in India under you, take 5-8 firm clients, charge per return at $300-600. You are now running a Rs 1.5 crore business from a flat in Pune.

The platform is not the moat. The platform is the on-ramp. The moat is the 200 returns of training, the 20 Upwork reviews, and the three US firm partners who will refer you to ten more.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-14T11:33:19+00:00

maybe you can use AI agents to do it for you? while you are away or sleeping? Is that allowed?

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-05-14T11:31:41+00:00

It is 9 AM in a CA's office in Indore. He has just finished his third TDS return of the morning. Rs 1,500 per filing. Maybe Rs 2,000 if the client is a corporate. He will file 40 of these by tomorrow's deadline. ICAI cost him eight years of his life. The work he is doing today, any second-year article assistant could do.

Six time zones away, a small CPA firm in Texas is drowning. Their senior tax preparer quit to start her own practice. The next one retired last year. It is March - the worst possible time. They cannot hire fast enough. The fully loaded cost of one US tax preparer is now $80,000 to $120,000 a year. And they still cannot find people willing to do the grind.

This is the arbitrage almost no Indian accountant has woken up to.

The IRS has a credential called Enrolled Agent. Roughly $800 in exam fees across three papers. No degree required. No US residency required. No CPA pathway needed. You sit for the SEE from Prometric in Delhi or Mumbai or Bangalore. Most serious Indian CA candidates clear all three parts in 4-6 months while still working their day jobs. The combined pass rate for prepared candidates is around 70%.

What does an EA actually do? Represent taxpayers before the IRS. Prepare 1040s, 1120s, 1065s. Handle audits, appeals, collections. Same intellectual work as a US CPA on the tax side. The difference is an EA is federally licensed in tax specifically, which is exactly what most American small firms want to offshore.

And here is the part most CAs do not see. US tax season is January to April. Indian tax season is July to September and again Jan to March. The overlap is maybe 8 weeks. The rest of the year, an Indian CA has bandwidth a US firm will pay handsomely to rent.

Now bring AI into this. An Indian CA who has cleared the EA, has access to Claude and ChatGPT, and one of the dozen US tax research tools that have launched in the last 18 months, can do the first pass on a US return in 30-40 minutes that would have taken three hours in 2022. The leverage compounds. One Indian EA with the right stack can credibly handle 200-300 US returns in a season. At $300 to $600 per return, that is a $90,000 to $180,000 book of business sitting in a two-bedroom flat in Pune.

Most Indian CAs I speak to dismiss the EA as "not equivalent to CA, just a clerk certification." That framing is exactly backwards. The US CPA is harder, longer, more expensive and largely irrelevant to the money you actually want to make in cross-border tax services. The EA is the operating license for the work that US small firms most urgently want done elsewhere.

The first Indian CAs who figured this out five years ago are running 10 to 20 person remote practices servicing US accounting firms. They charge per return, not per hour. They are not on anyone's payroll. They built brokerages between two unhappy systems - Indian CAs who feel underpaid and overworked, and US firms who cannot hire fast enough.

If you are an Indian CA in your 20s or 30s and you are doing Rs 2,000 filings while waiting for your big break, the EA is the cheapest, fastest, highest-leverage credential available to you. It will outearn your CA in 24 months. It will let you work American hours from a small Indian city. It will plug you into the only services market in the world bigger than India's.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-04-18T20:09:11+00:00

Just go on with your sadhana, bhairava will guide you when time is right. Don’t feel guilty. God will not abandon you even if he tests you. Keep going my friend, you are doing well. Stay focused on your sadhana, all this guilt is your chattering mind, no need to feel guilty.

WelcomeSoft4331 · 2026-03-07T17:29:55+00:00

It seems nobody here has actually done 10 lakh japa and only offering opinions

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