re: Which direction should I go in if I want to get out of public accounting?

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You can go be a controller at one of a million plants and refineries around the world.

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He’s basically ahead of my controller when she got the job. She was in her final year of mba. There are plenty of small businesses that don’t know what they are doing accounting wise that start to grow and need a controller or just internal accounting.

Even if you are outsourcing your accounting, some of those people working on your account can be green and never have worked in your industry. They frick things up and you might need to be the one to tell them to reclassify this or that you dumbasses have to accrue the property taxes, you can’t just throw them all into 13th period.