Accountants gtfih

[EinMassengrab.]

I took an occupation aptitude test, and it said i should be an accountant. I know it's lame basing your life on a test, but it's actually something i've been looking for. I want a desk job, to make it easier for my powerlifting goals to be met (lots of rest/inactiveness/flexibility to eat every 2 hours during work).

so tell me. What do you think of your job?

edit: how long did you have to go to college?

[P4yn3]

I'd ask all my accountant friends but they're too busy hanging from a ceiling.

[xholla9x]

I'm taking the CPA next summer so can't comment right now, but heard mixed reviews.

BTW, especially in public accounting, busy season is not flexible. You could work 12 hours days for weeks but summers and the rest of the year are supposly alot easier

[cannibal.horse]

Have a lot of friends doing/in accounting. If you're looking top tier (where the money is) the hours are **** long (12 hour days) and they can count the amount of times they found the work engaging on their hands.

They're in demand and are always needed though, so there is a lot of job security.

[EinMassengrab.]

Originally Posted by xholla9x

I'm taking the CPA next summer so can't comment right now, but heard mixed reviews.

BTW, especially in public accounting, busy season is not flexible. You could work 12 hours days for weeks but summers and the rest of the year are supposly alot easier

that's fine, i'd just have to wake up earlier to lift before i head to work. my main worry in the occupation i choose is flexibility WHILE working in the office, how often i'd get a chance to stuff my face

[xholla9x]

Originally Posted by EinMassengrab.

that's fine, i'd just have to wake up earlier to lift before i head to work. my main worry in the occupation i choose is flexibility WHILE working in the office, how often i'd get a chance to stuff my face

again its different between public accounting and private but in public accounting, most of the time you will be traveling to your clients locations. It could near or hundreds of miles away. Basically what I am trying to say is that if you like a schedule and routine, accounting may not be for you.

[SomekindofSatan]

Originally Posted by cannibal.horse

Have a lot of friends doing/in accounting. If you're looking top tier (where the money is) the hours are **** long (12 hour days) and they can count the amount of times they found the work engaging on their hands.

They're in demand and are always needed though, so there is a lot of job security.

LMAO, this. I know a few accountants and very few of them have that much favourable things to say about it. But as you said, they're always in demand, not to mention you look at most of the coporate big wigs out there and pretty much all of them have accounting backgrounds.

[EinMassengrab.]

Originally Posted by xholla9x

again its different between public accounting and private but in public accounting, most of the time you will be traveling to your clients locations. It could near or hundreds of miles away. Basically what I am trying to say is that if you like a schedule and routine, accounting may not be for you.

is there a type of accounting in which i'd work at one location all the time? private i assume?

[Zackla]

Some of my best friends are accountants.

Lots of golf.
Lots of cigars.

They all have so much down time I don't get it. I text them at 2 PM on a Monday and they're for some reason getting beer and chicken wings instead of working. Two of them both work for a private firm, and a couple others work independently. The firm workers are making as much as I am in salary (around 70k+bonuses) and they have less school.

[robogain]

link me to the career test that you took op


i have took many and all of them told me i should go in to accounting or management

[EinMassengrab.]

Originally Posted by robogain

link me to the career test that you took op


i have took many and all of them told me i should go in to accounting or management

it's just one of the first options after googling


http://similarminds.com/career.html

[Jr_Sanchez]

Im an accounting student, ill be graduating next year. to be an accountant all you need is your bachelors in accounting. you can either do private or public accounting once you start to work. if you do public there are two areas you could do which are audit or tax. in audit you travel a lot more and are out of the office most the time. if you do tax you will be in the office most the time. both have their own busy seasons were you will have to out in anywhere around 12hrs a day as said above. you will probably want to get your CPA which to get you need to take a test which i hear is pretty intense.

[EinMassengrab.]

Originally Posted by Jr_Sanchez

Im an accounting student, ill be graduating next year. to be an accountant all you need is your bachelors in accounting. you can either do private or public accounting once you start to work. if you do public there are two areas you could do which are audit or tax. in audit you travel a lot more and are out of the office most the time. if you do tax you will be in the office most the time. both have their own busy seasons were you will have to out in anywhere around 12hrs a day as said above. you will probably want to get your CPA which to get you need to take a test which i hear is pretty intense.

so basically i want to be a public tax accountant


thanks, answered all my questions. repped

[keels141]

I'm about 6 months away from graduating from an accounting degree, I don't find it boring. It's not really exciting but the job security and money will be good. Haven't worked full-time in a firm so I don't really know what the actual work is like, but once you're qualified as a CPA you can make $70k (Australian $s) a year pretty easy (about $2.50 US)

[robogain]

Originally Posted by EinMassengrab.

it's just one of the first options after googling


http://similarminds.com/career.html

yes took it again and got same thing

i am a Trustee....

[wallace g]

Originally Posted by EinMassengrab.

it's just one of the first options after googling


http://similarminds.com/career.html

i'm in my last yr of a major in Accounting and I just took that test....

it says i should be a Technician (no accountant listed in there)

[FLAY]

It seems like everyday their are several threads about accounting. Should we create an official accounting thread?