You and opebo have good points here. I even have co-workers who have previously worked in CPA firms agree with most of what I've said. I even had one woman tell me the big CPA firms are "sweatshops" that rope in young, naive college kids to work all kinds of hours with meager bonuses for working 60+ hours per week during tax season. Few of us are lucky enough to be dazzleman in that category so I stuck with the government. Add the student loan debt that I and Scoonie have it makes matters even worse. I know dazzleman is wise in many respects, but I hate to say he is a bit naive to what people in their 20s recently out of college have to go through.
Do you think I haven't gone through the same thing? Not only that, I hire and manage people in their 20s right out of college. Believe me, I know exactly what people in their 20s recently out of college have to go through. I just have a longer term perspective on where it leads than you do, and what path will lead to more lucrative results.
I can assure you of one thing Flyers -- your quasi-union, working class mentality will lead you to a dead end in the corporate world. In 10 years, you'll realize that I was right, and you'll be sorry you didn't listen to me.
