40 hours a week

[yoga-like_abana]

Why 40 hours? What if you're not self employed and can get crap done before that time.. What's the point in making people stay


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[pissclams]

good companies/bosses don't make you stay.  sorry for your lot in life, downgrade.

[CNS]

My experience is that if you get more than 40yrs worth of stuff done in a week, you get given more than 40hrs worth of work.  If you get that done in a week, you get promoted.  Rinse/Repeat.

[yoga-like_abana]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

[kslim]

I have gotten to the point where i just say eff it when im done and head home

quotas met nobody cares anymore

[kim carnes]

So she just sits there and does nothing?

[steve dave]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

Should go it alone. Great oppys on the field.

[CNS]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

She should start her own biz, still work like mad Jan-Apr, then work 4 days/wk the rest of the year or pick up enough accts to fill out the week on her own.

Profit.

Acctg for Small Biz customers is a good example of low overhead biz that should be reasonable enough to start up.  Especially after doing it a few yrs for another firm if that firm lets her deal with the same customers for weekly/monthly payroll. 

[TheHamburglar]

Sounds like a great oppo for some gE's to invest in y-l_a's gf to help her start her own biz.

[Emo EMAW]

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

[steve dave]

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

[TheCatFanSpeaks]

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

All my friends are CPAs, and I even have trouble telling them apart sometimes.

[Emo EMAW]

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

Well ya that's a big qualifier there.

[pissclams]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

an accountant (her boss) being anal.  how weird. 

[TownieCat]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

I travel a lot for work about 12 weeks of the year, and typically put in ~60 hours per week when I do. The rest of the year I am still expected to work 8-5. It is what it is.

If y-l_agf doesn't like it she should either open her own firm or pick a new profession. I bet that those other 8 months of the year are pretty stress-free.

[OK_Cat]

if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

She should post here regularly May-Dec

[Emo EMAW]

If she's hot she should get a job for that GPC lawyer guy. 

[michigancat]

She should spend some time BBs'in

[XocolateThundarr]

if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip

[puniraptor]

if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip

i call this personal development

[lopakman]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

That's stupid so it's a good thing I'm here to tell her what to do.  Tell her to get her CPA if she has not already done so and then put in at least 3-5 years in public accounting.  My wife did seven years at Grant Thornton....yes it was like a prison sentence, sometimes 90 hours a week.  She made it to Senior Tax Manager before she gave up the partner track and quit to actually have time with her family. 

Next go get a job for a private company as some sort of in house management accountant, make $100,000+ a year and work 35 hours a week with no busy season.  Then use that money to buy a crap load of tanktops.  Problem solved

[The Big Train]

So can you just skip point B(years being a workaholic) and just go from A-C? Seems easier

[Benja]

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

All my friends are CPAs, and I even have trouble telling them apart sometimes.

Every single one of your friends is an accountant?

[Pete]

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

That's stupid so it's a good thing I'm here to tell her what to do.  Tell her to get her CPA if she has not already done so and then put in at least 3-5 years in public accounting.  My wife did seven years at Grant Thornton....yes it was like a prison sentence, sometimes 90 hours a week.  She made it to Senior Tax Manager before she gave up the partner track and quit to actually have time with her family. 

Next go get a job for a private company as some sort of in house management accountant, make $100,000+ a year and work 35 hours a week with no busy season.  Then use that money to buy a crap load of tanktops.  Problem solved

7 years at Grant Thornton probably feels like a lifetime.