re: Any of you married men with families ever quit your job without having another lined up?

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This is so important for the new guys to understand. In the beginning, I think a lot of us feel that we aren't long for the profession. It's normal. You have to take your lumps, stay positive, and put in the work to get better. Training only does so much. You can sit through a week of slide decks covering various tax topics but that shite ain't going to stick without repetition and self-study.

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it really is. So many kids show up and have never "failed" at anything before... or not even fail... just not super excelled.

It's hard. I've had a LOT of 1st / 2nd years crying in my office over the years. They are so used to just instantly picking everything up without a lot of effort.

I tell them... look... in school... they give you everything in a nice package, and you just need to build it. In the real world, you get half the stuff you need, you don't know what you are missing, and a bunch of extra parts that aren't needed. It's hard when you don't even know what you need.

Just need to keep at it and you WILL learn, you will make a mistake 3, 4, 5 times, but then you figure it out.

Completelu normal... but a new concept if you never dealt with that before.