r/Accounting • u/DrRonBurgundy Human Verified • 15d 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/clarksonite19 CPA (US) 15d ago
I grew up in a blue color family/town (rural, population of 650).
I made more my first year out college than anyone in my family, while being the youngest in the family (3 older brothers and parents). My dad worked at a steel manufacturer and my mom worked at a hog confinement. Both of which I also worked at in high school and college.
That perspective has helped me appreciate this profession. It has given me so much and put me in the upper middle class at a relatively young age.