Accountant to Finance

Consider that an accountant in a boutique tax practice can clear a sizeable annual comp, forever (conditional on staying, tortoise, not the hare)

  • American 
  • Skipped Recruiting, barely attended classes, skated by
  • Passed the CPA exam
  • Tax exp for HNWIs

Summary :

If I just stay put and do nothing, I'm set for a nice life.

Feel as if it's too easy, like I'm in the wilderness of vapid Los Angeles wealth, a knight sheathed in armor, buried in a mine, with gold accumulating, and just, no pulse.

Should I escape, reset with the MBA, and attempt to join forces with like-minded Finance heads that genuinely enjoy the scholarly endeavors of Investing (the hare, not the tortoise) ? 

Or, point blank, there's no shot in Hell, just smoke the cigars I have, and accept it is fate.


Insight genuinely requested, thanks for your magnanimity ahead of time.

 

You are definitely a candidate for an MBA. Absolutely consider that path.

And don’t assume that you’re going to be clearing a million in total comp until you actually do. Not everyone will end up as a partner. Also, as someone who worked in tax for the most part I always found HNW tax and tax in general to not be intellectually stimulating enough but for some it is so just depends on you.

 

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