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On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you hate your job?

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How much do you hate your job

  • 1. I love it. Want to stay here forever and ever.

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  • 10. Kill it with fire

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Svnla said:
I spoke with a few auditors in person and they started out with KPMG and none of them, zero, lasted more than 5 years. Are they (big 4 - KPMG, DnT, EnY, PnC) that bad?
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I'm about to start busy season #9 in January. During this time I've been at 2 Big 4 firms and one small firm. both have their different problems.

Big 4 is essentially a meat grinder. Fresh bodies are brought in from different Universities with promises of decent pay, lots of challenging experiences, and something great on a resume. Surprisingly, it is all somewhat true, except for the pay. Pay is halfway decent until you start looking at what your salary/hour is. I've only calculated that once and I'll never do it again as it is just heartbreaking when you are working 80 hours in a week. You get tons of experience because everything is leveraged to the lowest level possible. It is all interesting work but sometimes it can be overwhelming and you feel like you don't have any direction. Most are out within 5 years, usually it is 2-3.

The smaller firm that I was at had other problems. small firm, with small clients, with small problems. it got boring after coming from a Big 4 firm. advancement is stymied due to decreased turnover. all work was completed by the end of busy season and no work was extended. it had some compression but not as much as a Big 4.
 
3

Not the most challenging work I've had, but great coworkers, nice setting, and we're about to move into some really nice office space as soon as the remodel is complete. I'd give it a 2 or a 1 if it weren't for the public sector salary.
 
Full time student: 10.


Would MUCH rather be working. School is not for me. The children are irritating. The professors are all assclowns. The tuition is ridiculous, and the books arent much better.
 
I'm surprised by the number of people on the boards that treat life in the Army or whatever as being the best job in history or something. Back when I graduated from High School I went straight to college when some of my classmates enlisted in the Army. Long story short... One of them ended up dying from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head, ironically after his service ended and he was back home for keeps. 🙁

The other, thankfully is still with us. But he's in therapy every week and whenever I try talking to him these days it's like he's on a completely different wavelength, or world. He can't ever relax, complains he can't ever get a full rested nights sleep, can't keep a steady girlfriend because of all his issues and his life seems to generally be hell. Yet people on the boards have nothing but good things to say about the service. I guess some jobs are just better than others?
 
Voted 2. I love my job but I definitely have more aspirations and plans. The job is challenging, rewarding and I get a lot of room to work. It demanding and can have its moments but I love the people I work with and generally look forward to work each morning.
 
I am very happy with my job. Pay is low but it's only first out of college. 24 days of PTO, yes plz.
 
Probably a 9. If I didn't stop giving a shit a while back, I'd think that there have been a few incidents where fu*kers have set me up to fail (e.g. telling me to present something I'm only moderately familiar with to a room of 20 people 5 minutes before the presentation) and tried to make things worse for me.

Commute is now 3-4 hours a day (minimum 1.5 each way), pay is mediocre, I get all the shit jobs.
 
Quintox said:
I am very happy with my job. Pay is low but it's only first out of college. 24 days of PTO, yes plz.
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I get 20 days of PTO, 5 sick days, and 11 holidays. Sadly, the joke is that you have to working during that time to make your billable hours.
 
Yeah I get 20 PTO days but they also count as sick days if I need them. I can purchase more and they will be refunded too. Recently my manager complained to me that I have so many pto days before year end. Had too many elevations these past few weeks no point taking them if you are on call. He wants me to take a few in the upcoming weeks so he doesn't get in trouble for making it look like he makes me work too much.
 
shortylickens said:
Full time student: 10.


Would MUCH rather be working. School is not for me. The children are irritating. The professors are all assclowns. The tuition is ridiculous, and the books arent much better.
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I hated school too, well liked the social aspect but the work aspect sucked. Felt like all the work I was doing was pointless, and in a way it was, it was all pretend stuff. Could not wait to go in the real world where my work is actually serving a purpose.

Now that I'm there though, I'm happy. The work is easier, serves a purpose, and I get paid for it. 😛
 
I voted 5. I work at an agency and deal with many high profile clients. Some clients are great and easy to work with. Some clients are hell and unreasonable. I've been yelled by a VP of another company in their own marketing meeting for no legit reason. I later found out that she was in deep trouble within her own company so she took it out on me, the agency.

Some days, I'll have to do 3 or 4 different interviews with different clients. We have a team in India that I have to work with which means I'll stay up late at night just to communicate with them. The stress of handling 5 or 6 clients at the same time is unbelievable.

No wonder people start out at agencies/consulting firms and then leave after 1-2 years to go work for less demanding companies. My boss is great though - he's the only reason I stayed here for almost a year.

I'm passively looking for a new job.
 
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shortylickens said:
Full time student: 10.


Would MUCH rather be working. School is not for me. The children are irritating. The professors are all assclowns. The tuition is ridiculous, and the books arent much better.
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If I didn't have to worry about money, I'd stay in school forever.
 
senttoschool said:
If I didn't have to worry about money, I'd stay in school forever.
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Yeah nothing like how I do miss going to class and comutting like 10 min to campus, plus not doing crap in class , and having two days off because of the schedule. Work is nicer but just boring and mundane especially at some big companies. It's the smaller ones where they don't mind you doing things how you want that are more fun sometimes.
 
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