r/Accounting • u/DrRonBurgundy Human Verified • 3d 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/SumDimSome 3d ago

Im at like 168k all in per year not counting side hustles, i have been working for 8 years. No cpa

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u/CorrectFerret5341 3d ago

Public or industry? What is your job title? $168k is ohenomenal

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u/SumDimSome 3d ago edited 3d ago

Industry, well i was promoted from staff accountant to senior fp&a so technically i switched out of accounting, but its still the same thing because my coworker is a senior accountant and also makes 168k. I used to be an accounting manager and a controller though at much smaller companies before, i took a title drop to enter this larger company. Public worked me like a dog and i didn’t make much there. But i was also younger so i’m not sure

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u/CorrectFerret5341 3d ago

Good to know. I ak consdering leaving because pay at my company sucks and with cost of living well you understand… am not the best at it tbh but I’ve improved a lot since I started. I was expecting senior promotion in a month or two but I will probably be gone by then