I mean it’s a funny meme but nobody on this sub is stuck working in the single factory in their crappy small town with 0 other options. CPAs acting like they’re “stuck” at a job they hate is silly.
If I don’t like my job I can quit and go get a new one literally anywhere in the country I want to go with a comp/wlb split basically of my choosing, if my great grandfather didn’t like his job he could quit and then his whole family would starve to death because there was literally one employer in town.
lol, John Galt here explaining why it's okay for firms to treat workers like shit.
I haven't burst into laughter that violently in a while.
'if you don't like you're job you can get a new one'
'theres a labour shortage cause people are lazy!'
Actually I think these threads come up frequently. Everyone in accounting had the same general business classes that espouse Austrian school economics at every turn.
Accountants are legit dumb af sometimes because they think they do important work. They fail to realize that they’re just compliance and they work for shareholders in corporate and incestuous public accounting firms who are supposed to safeguard the stock market.
Source: am accountant
Not all accountants are even PMC. The career of tallying up receipts and running some Excel macros has been under the pressure of proletarianization since the invention of the calculator. It is about as managerial of a profession as being a retail assistant manager.
I have a family member who's been doing it for about a decade now.
God I hope they’re not the actual licensed CPA
Naa lmao. They started in customer service and just stuck around long enough until there was no one else around who could make the numbers add up.
Legit,
I remember back in uni getting to know people one of the first things you'd ask was about their majors and then when they told me I'd go "wow that's so cool what made you want to study [your major]" and almost everyone would say something about how much they fucking loved painting or plants or history or how cool coding was and how it was going to change the world or how exciting actually understanding how physics/pumps/chemical reactions was or how the skills they were learning would be able to help people and change the world. Even the business school people would at the very least talk self importantly or with shining eyes about how what they were learning would enable them to help people or have an awesome career.
The accounting students were literally the only exception. I remember throwing that question at three or four of them and I never once got an "accounting's so cool/I love numbers/tax law is so interesting/I can't wait to help fight/commit tax fraud". Two answers I did get, which stuck with me, maybe because they were so similar to each other and different from all the other people I'd asked were [smiling] "It's fucking boring aye" "oh, then why're you doing it?" "I want to buy a jetski" and [deadpan] "Ï want to buy a boat".
the worst part about it is that at the entry and mid levels, most accounting jobs pay like shit for the hours that you are expected to work.
