Quote: (08-29-2018 08:24 PM)Dr Mantis Toboggan Wrote:
Quote: (08-29-2018 03:48 PM)Diop Wrote:
Quote: (08-29-2018 03:05 PM)Adonis Wrote:
The best thing will be to go into business for yourself. Even if you sign on with a construction company or business in another male dominated field, support roles like accounting or finance will always have significant numbers of women.
I second this. As a CPA who worked in corporate jobs for the first part of my career, I suggest you start taking steps to escape into starting your own practice immediately.
The problem with accounting is that the women can be decent at their jobs as long as they are in lower or entry level positions, but once they advance into (middle) management roles they are an absolute nightmare to work both with and for. They can't handle the stress of the job so they resort to either blaming their subordinates for their managerial shortcomings or flat out bullying to cover up for their own incompetence.
Take what you can from your corporate experience and get that CPA completed ASAP, then start your own business. You don't have to switch to programming to escape the female-dominated corporate hell.
Have you ever thought about remote freelancing and would you say this is feasible with a CPA?
I specialize in tax and I can do a lot of remote work with many of my clients. There are some whom I've never even met before, and I've been doing their taxes for several years now. Face time is still important for a good chunk of my client base though, particularly those who have businesses and corporations. The good news is that for many of them, you only have to meet in person once or twice per year so it does allow me to be location-independent throughout certain times of the year.
That's tax work though. I do know some bookkeepers who only work remotely, but none of them are CPA's and I don't think they charge a high hourly fee. Being a CPA certainly does offer remote freelancing opportunities though, you just have to find them. If I had time to do more freelancing I bet I'd be able to find some of those gigs.