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Assurance Associate (Audit - Public Accounting)

UCLA Major Econ, Minor Accounting Graduated March 2004

Worked for Hedge fund May - September 2004

Got Audit job September 2004 - present

$40-48K + bonus + expenses first year
$55-58K + " " second year
$65-70K + " " third year
$70-80K + " " fourth year
$85-100K + " " fifth year
Then you taper off.
If you become Audit manager and quit and do consulting on your own, probably charge $250-450/hour D.O.E.
After 10 years become a Controller $150-$275K
20 years become CFO (if you make it) $175-$???
CEO?
 
Originally posted by: jjones
I have my own online business, with some web work on the side, which nets me about 75k/year and allows me to live in Cancun and hang out on the beach whenever I want to. I got here by driving my convertible RX-7 from Los Angeles. I have an education but these days I feel pretty stupid; most likely that's from all the tequila I've been drinking for the past 25 years, along with a healthy dose of preferring to be blissfully ignorant. I managed to get into my current business by complete accident when a friend thought I might be interested in writing web pages. I wasn't doing anything at the time so I thought, why not, and then borrowed his book on html.
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Of course starting your own business would be the most ideal situation.

^^^======== admire this guy and follow his footsteps.
 
I am a Snr. Associate with a Big 4 CPA firm, on the cusp of making manager. Been at it almost 5yrs.

What I do: Audit SEC registered companies and help them prepare their Form 10K which is filed with the SEC. I'm a auditor, I don't do taxes! Pay is good, hours are horrible, great vacation policy, and I learn an incredible amount on my job as the SEC is continually changing rules. Starting pay for a kid out of college in Silicon valley is approximately $54K.

How I get here:

US Army @ 17 for 3yrs. I enlisted and was a Combat Engineer

Community College for 18-months. I was focused on a business degree from a 4yr U.

Pac-10 U - BS Accounting (I was good at Accounting clasess, most people struggle)I wanted to be an engineer but Calculus disagrees with my Medulla Oblongata.

Interned my Sophomore Summer
Interned my Junior Summer
Worked part time as a Supervisor for an Event Services company doing Security throughout my college career.

Good grades are important! Internships are importnat! Having a nice suit to interview in is important!

generally the top 5-10% of students in my school work for one of the Big 4 CPA firms. I distinuguished myself by having good grades and a long resume of prior work experience. Being 3yrs older than all my peers worked in my favor as well.





 
Went to York U. in Toronto (North York) in 1994 for a year, majoring in English. Partied extremely hard, didn't do too well and moved back home and worked in a factory for 16 months (Worthington Cylinders - very glamourous work). 16 months of steady midnights, six days a week.

Went back to school at the University of Windsor in 1996 and graduated with my B.A. majoring in Communication Studies in 1999. Started factory work again at Meritor Automotive but on a tip applied for a job at what was then known as the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation. Got hired basically because I had a great interview even though I knew next to nothing about property assessment.

I'm now a "Property Inspector" with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation - it will be 6 years in July. I love my job and am eager to move up through the ranks - it's one of those professions with a real balance of field / office time that I've come to appreciate.
 
Store mnanager for a McDonalds

- Worked at a McDonalds when I was 16
- Got to know the owner's son
- We were friend while I was going to college(graduated with an ACC. degree)
- Was a server all this time even after finishing college..
- When 9/11 hit, money wasn't there anymore
- My buddy got me to take manager position at a McDonalds.
- Became Store manager after 7 months.
- Make around $44K as store manager.
- At a crossroad. Don't want to work at McDonalds for the rest of my life.
- Looking to start an Accounting job for the government.
 
Ahh, the typical teenage "peer acceptance" post. Need to make sure you fit in with the crowd.

Since you asked, I'm a server engineer/systems engineer/whatever they're calling me today engineer/tech/nerd/geek at IBM. I maintain a large datacenter for one of IBM's clients. I build, install, and maintain the servers.
 
I do customer support for the multimedia department on campus at Washington State University, also known as Instructional Support Services. My friend quit working here and I was looking for a job so he brought me in to do an interview and they pretty much hired me on the spot.
 
Grad from HS and went straight to college
Worked part time as help desksupport at Microage and then moved on to a big corp while in school (2 years)
Grad in 01 with CIS degree (5 years)
worked at a small IT consulting company but went out of business (1 year)
started my own IT consulting business (2 years)
big corp that I worked for hired me as IT analyst (1.5, currently)
Making approx. $65K+
I am 26 saving to buy a house.

 
Currently a full time bum. Have two college classes (one online), this is my last semester. Entering the Navy in the fall.
 
Mechanical Engineer - I conduct analysis and simulation of control systems for gas turbine engines
$60k/yr (hopefully $65k+ by end of next week, supervisors put me in for a promotion 🙂)

MS in Mech. Eng. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS in Mathematics from state university with a minor in Physics
4 years between high school graduation and undergrad spent working in a warehouse for a now defunct retailer.

 
I am a research analyst. I went to undergrad for psychology and grad school for industrial psychology. I needed a job when I graduated. There was an ad in the paper for data entry, so I interviewed. Within a few months, I began to do statistics, taught myself GIS, and started writing reports. The salary increases came with the increased duties/skills/responsibilities.
 
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