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Building things or doing mathy stuff.... I even flirted with the thought of doing accounting briefly
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Just chiming in to say that accounting isn’t really about math at all, nor is it about building stuff. Rather, it’s about understanding arcane rules promulgated by a self-appointed regulatory body and using those rules to describe what someone else built, using numbers. If you’re miserable now, I couldn’t see it getting any better in accounting.

Source: myself, an accounting industry vet for 20+ years working in Big 4 accounting firms and F500 accounting departments. :beer
Many thanks. Do you enjoy what you do in accounting as a personal individual?
I mostly do now, but am at a much higher level of course compared to where I started. A lot of what I deal with now is in support of M&A activities and analyzing complex transactions from an accounting standpoint. So who knows - I know very little about a cybersecurity career pathway, but I’d imagine that your chosen expertise will provide you with future opportunities that you may not even be aware of yet (and that will likely look quite different compared to what you’re doing today).

Good luck! :sharebeer
Thank you for the moral support. I appreciate it. Never thought being an adult was this.... unscripted and challenging. Lol, the things one learns in life :sharebeer

Statistics: Posted by mtwistercapitalist — Wed Jun 12, 2024 9:44 pm — Replies 37 — Views 2585



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