This is not my professional website and this is definitely not a website I use for my practice. My practice has a very professional and diplomatic website, boring and uptight just like the website of any Big 4 firms. May be I have to always be so diplomatic and likable in my nice suits that I feel suffocated and I need a place to rant before I snap at work, in front of my clients and my colleagues.
I started this blog back in the fall of 2013 when I felt totally dissatisfied with my "job" in public accounting. I love accounting with a passion and I love my profession very very much, so much that I found myself unable to work as the typical "yes man" auditor in the big firms or the "do it all" CPA in the small firms. For a while, I felt disenfranchised. It could be due to the excessive long hours burnt-out or the lack of fulfillment from working for those who only wanted to please the clients, or my burnt-out could be due to the unnecessary unpaid overtime working with those incompetent yet arrogant auditors who put their clients' "file date" and the "conformity" to the firm's rotten culture a priority above the quality and effectiveness of the audits. So I quit and I spent a few months mopping at home, contemplating my next career move. But my passion for accounting wouldn't let me check out of my beloved profession completely. After watching old TV shows and eating ice-cream for a few months, I started my own practice, but this time I am to help the public find justice and to hold incompetent CPA firms accountable. My line of work since then has been focusing on litigation support only. This is because I am good at finding material misstatements in any financial statements, and I know where to find audit deficiencies and therefore the right piece of workpaper to subpoena, thanks to my years of experience working with the incompetent auditors and accountants that firms (both big and small) hire and keep hiring. But I will never forget the way I felt when I first started this blog:
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I'm a CPA, CFE & CGMA. I had been working in public accounting for over 13 years. I haven' t taken a vacation since 2009. I had been underpaid and had been making less money than a book-keeper, a hair dresser, a waitress, a secretary with no computer skills and no degree, an executive director of one of my clients, who makes over $100K a year and who doesn't have to do anything. One Saturday being alone at 5pm in my office, it suddenly daunted on me that about 80% of all my clients' employees and several of the non-professional staff at my firm had a bigger paycheck than me, and yet they never had to sacrifice their weekends as frequently as I did.
It was then that I realized I was wasting my life and I began looking for another job. After a few months looking and wasting time with headhunters and got no real interview other than the visits at recruitment firms like Robert Half, I decided that I didn't give a damn anymore and I just resigned.
Now here I am, for the first time since I graduated college, I don't have to wake up and go to a job. I've been jobless since 10/16/2013. Since then I have turned off my phone and turn off my email account. I just have been watching TV, sleeping a lot and contemplating about my life and wondering what I should do for my future. A few days after moping around my home, I had also acquired enough programming knowledge to design this website. Now I wonder if I should just become a webmaster, or a professional housekeeper instead.
Anyway, thanks for dropping by, please feel free to leave comments here to let me know that I am not suffering from post traumatic stress disorder from all these years of public accounting.
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