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Topic Name: Questions about collecting unemployment
Message Name: Thanks apolinaras and de profundis
Date Posted: 09/17/2004
Message: I appreciate your insights. And if it sounded like I made light of the experience of unemployment, I apologize. I don't like auditing and I don't care to learn any more of it. I'm comfortable working here for the moment, because my responsibilities are the same as last year, and I don't have to learn much new accounting crap. But I'm definitely not sticking around to become a Senior Auditor. So I've got all of this year to save money and hopefully figure out what field to move on to, or if I still don't figure it out I'll take another accounting/finance job to stay afloat while I keep searching for the right career (or maybe I'll like that enough to stay). Perhaps I'm being naive, but I don't think getting some sort of decent-paying fulltime work will be too much of a problem when I leave at the end of the year. Everyone I know of who left Big 4 public accounting after 2 or more years has done well in quickly getting another accounting or finance job, usually something more lucrative and less work. Job availability was precisely why I majored in accounting and even got a master's degree in it. Perhaps it was a mistake since I currently feel like I hate it, but I can still benefit from the job security while I both build up a nest egg and try to figure out what new career to go into.

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