Quit a job to pursue another career

[Deleted]

As an accountant I spend most of my time working from home (getting through my steam backlog) and wanking off to midget granny porn. Auditing is awesome!

[vep]

I'll tell you one thing: All the worst decisions I've ever made were a product of over thinking the situation or what not. The best decisions I ever made were made impulsively. Like Nike says "just do it".
Take from that what you want. But keep in mind you won't die if going back to school doesn't work out for you.

[Boricha]

I'd definitely say do it. I can't work a job that I hate. I've tried and it didn't work out at all.

[alexkeren]

The hardest part is how to tell my bosses that I would like to pursue another career without burning the bridges (as Captain N said) in case it doesn't work out. Any tips?

Just simply tell them you want to go back to school.

They don't need to know the why, but if you're on good terms with them now then explain, but don't offer it up first.

[Deleted]

What do you think of your current boss's job, and of their boss?

[NoRest4Wicked]

Hello fellow MMO champions,

I seek your advice. I am 24 and I currently work as an accountant ($60k salary). Here is the problem, I hate my job. Every time I wake up in the morning, I hate myself for going to work. I am very unhappy with my current situation and I am looking to go back to school to study medicine (grades are not an issue nor is money). What do you guys think? Would you give up a good job to go back to school if you were unhappy?

Looking forward to your answers.

I thought you were 19 living at home with you parents saying you didn't need a job because your daddy is rich? I guess your life much be pretty lame if you have to keep making all these threads about how good you life is(n't).

I'm sure it was just in June, saying you had just graduated high school, not working and your parents were going to kick you out. Now you're 24? You age fast mang.

Ah, here we go - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...me-to-move-out
Also, seeing as you're 24, sex with a 14 year old is pretty messed up - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...th-14-year-old
Not to mention, having a 50k a year job while still in High School is pretty damn impressive - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...year-in-Canada

[Joi]

I think it would depend on which aspects of your current job you hate. If it's being in an office all day, all the paperwork, the regular schedule, you know the "office work" of it all, then medicine would be no improvement. If you end up in family medicine you'd have different tasks and more interaction with people, but otherwise a lot of similar headaches.
Specialty depending, you would be seeing people in 10-15 minute increments all day, have a lot of long days, a ton of paperwork, and you wouldn't be making as much as you think you would (depending on specialty and country) since a lot of a doctor's income goes to office space, receptionist/staff pay, and insurance.

If you don't mind daily office work, you just want something more fulfilling, then sure, go for it. My sister says it's not as fulfilling as she thought it was going to be (she's about to finish residency), but overall she's happy with her work as a doctor.

50K probably won't see you through the number of years you'll be a student. You should factor in that you'll possibly have to catch up on science classes to get into med school, the years in med school, then further years of residency and specialization study. You eventually start making some money while in residency, but the pay is low.
In addition to school fees you'll be paying a lot for for the major tests (like the boards, which here are 8K), out of town travel for special programs, internships, and events, and a small fortune on printer paper and ink (get a laser printer).
However, banks (here at least) have good loan programs for med students, so if your dad can't help you out you can probably get a great line of credit that they won't expect you to start paying back until you are in residency. I think my sister's was about 150k.

If you do go for it, get the Anki flashcard program and import this deck into the program: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalscho...d_pt_3/cpd0y09
It may be a little out o date now, not sure if ti's still being kept up. It's current to 2014/early 2015 last I checked.

good luck!

[Twix]

I thought you were 19 living at home with you parents saying you didn't need a job because your daddy is rich? I guess your life much be pretty lame if you have to keep making all these threads about how good you life is(n't).

I'm sure it was just in June, saying you had just graduated high school, not working and your parents were going to kick you out. Now you're 24? You age fast mang.

Ah, here we go - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...me-to-move-out
Also, seeing as you're 24, sex with a 14 year old is pretty messed up - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...th-14-year-old
Not to mention, having a 50k a year job while still in High School is pretty damn impressive - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...year-in-Canada

sometimes when you're bored you make troll threads.. this one is for real

[Mummbles]

60K is pretty damn good for a 24 year old. But never quit your job until you have something waiting for you IMMEDIATELY afterward because life has a way of throwing giant FUCK YOUs when you're vulnerable. If I could I would set a 100k savings as the bare minimum (in case the worst happened and I needed a lawyer) before out right quitting a job.

[Rasulis]

Like I said, money is not an issue. My dad is willing to pay my tuition if I get accepted into medical school.

You have a wonderful father. My hat's off to him.

[ravenmoon]

I thought you were 19 living at home with you parents saying you didn't need a job because your daddy is rich? I guess your life much be pretty lame if you have to keep making all these threads about how good you life is(n't).

I'm sure it was just in June, saying you had just graduated high school, not working and your parents were going to kick you out. Now you're 24? You age fast mang.

Ah, here we go - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...me-to-move-out
Also, seeing as you're 24, sex with a 14 year old is pretty messed up - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...th-14-year-old
Not to mention, having a 50k a year job while still in High School is pretty damn impressive - http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...year-in-Canada

sometimes when you're bored you make troll threads.. this one is for real

wow.. for real?

Twix.. try being honest about yourself first. No one likes being lied too.

If you don't like your life as it is... DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.. do something honourable so you'd have something to be proud about and truthfully share with others.

This topic should be closed for trolling.

[Zarc]

Or you could just be a fucking accountant, and your body isn't stiff and hurting bc you were an accountant, and you're chilling on some beach in Mexico on vacation 3 months out the year because you decide to stick it thru with accounting and do something in accounting that you love like traveling overseas auditing, managing budgets at hospitals, or being a senior analyst ANYWHERE, etc.

I'm currently a financial analyst, looking at spreadsheets all day. Except I look at spreadsheets from Different Drugs, Pharmacies, Medical Equipment, Hospitals, Service Visits, and other shit.

Last week, we ran a series of reports that led to the better management of our inventory, and helps us get one more person cured of Hep C within the costs. I did that as someone in Finance. It's not accounting that's the problem. It's your job.

OP, try not to find happiness in medicine. You won't find it.

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Word, with Accounting, you can do ANY analyst role, I don't understand how such a versatile degree doesn't get you something you like. In this world, you can literally do anything with accounting lol.

Not sure what your point is here. Why would your body not be stiff and hurting because you were an accountant? Because it's not physical labor? Well I'm a web developer and I love it. It's not physical either. I work from home in my underwear 40% of the time. There are lots of jobs that isn't physical labor that would give you just the same chances of not getting a stiff and hurting body earlier than you otherwise would as being an accountant would. So that's not a reason to be an accountant.

Secondly, in my previous post I made the exact same point you made; that the OP should find a new employer and give it some time before making up his mind, and that any knowledge-oriented job gets more fun once you get the experience that makes you an expert in your field, where things become second nature to you and you get a respected and advisory role in your professional life.

So, as a response to my post, your post seems kind of hollow..