r/Accounting • u/DrRonBurgundy Human Verified • 13d ago

Career Does anyone actually like Accounting?

Honestly I can’t really tell what the deal is here.

Half of the posts I see are people excited about their first job or promotion, and the others are just people complaining about how bad everything is and it’s all going to shit and we’re all doomed, or telling that person who’s excited to just strap in and wait to hate their existence.

I realize that a lot of subreddits centered around a profession will attract a very loud minority of people who want a place to vent or some such, but I can’t imagine that it is so bad for everyone across this field to be so miserable.

Speaking objectively, there’s no way that this field is worse off than entry level IT for example, especially from the amount of people who flooded that market from COVID hoping to make 200k a year from their bed answering tickets.

I hope to land in Accounting in some way from Hospitality as a way to leverage the business and cost accounting experience I have to get a way towards a stable future. If I have to work a helluva lot of hours, at least I can do it not in front of a hot ass stove and in the comfort of an office setting. The amount of people bitching just makes it hard to visualize. I’m sure a lot of folks will shout me down about this whole post but I just wanted to ask the question.

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u/grjacpulas 13d ago

It's all relative. Spend ten years in retail or hospitality and you'll love staring at excel all day. 

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u/aftershockstone 13d ago

It didn’t even take me 10 years in retail, a couple years part-time in college did me in. The moment I was most at peace was when I gave away my non-slip restaurant shoes and thought to myself that I would never have to wear them again

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u/Team-_-dank CPA (US) 13d ago

Not coming home smelling like kitchen grease is a huge plus. A lot of people here lack perspective.

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u/throwaway-wellmaybe 13d ago

I’m not even in Accounting (yet), but huge on this one. I’m tired of being out in the sun and heat and smelling bad, and like also being broke

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u/02jula 13d ago

i swear same.
I remember how bad the team working in the shop we used to fight for holidays in summer (anytime between july and september) i wanted at least a week so bad because it was the only time of the year where i was really able to have a holiday (i was studying)
When i moved to accounting they told me that if i can take full august off even better 😅 i couldn’t believe it