re: Accountants

No I work for a local firm, and I am very glad I chose this path. Every single person I know who works/has worked for a B4 (even in the relatively small southeastern La market) is/was absolutely miserable. I feel like a get a much wider industry exposure here, and that is my primary career goal while I am doing public accounting. We hired a guy that came from private and had not worked in public, and he didn't make it more than like 8 months, but he was way older (late 30s/early 40s). If you're relatively young and not too tied down, its probably not a big deal, as long as you know what you're getting into.