Serious Does anyone have knowledge about accounting/an opinion/experience in a similar field

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

I want to get into accounting and make some actual money

the general job seems like a good fit for me, assume I'm 115iq

the plan is get an AAT qualification which costs 700 to enroll in, 3hrs of work a day for 2-3 months, then i become a payroll assistant / accounting assistant, then after 1-2 years become a real accountant, then after a couple more years switch to freelance where I basically have around 10 clients that I'm doing work for and I'd be earning ~50k a year and working only around 4hrs a day

Thoughts?

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

should i ask reddit too jfl

I never used reddit before but I've spoken to chatgpt about it for ages and i do need some humans

 

[WastedPotential]

I have accounting as a subject this semester. I'm studying economics though, not specialized in accounting. But perhaps I can answer some basic questions for you

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

I have accounting as a subject this semester. I'm studying economics though, not specialized in accounting. But perhaps I can answer some basic questions for you

gowan then lad

Thank you

 

[WastedPotential]

gowan then lad

Thank you

I'll be honest with you. I never heard of AAT, Only CPA (and RA in my country).

But I think it's not a bad job per se, however i'm uncertain about the job security in the future.Accounting is one of the type of jobs that can be easily automated by AI. Though it's very much possible the law will stil require learned individuals to check the books in the end. Still I think it's inevitable that some jobs in the accounting job market will be cut.

 

[RandomGuy]

Thoughts?

I'll be honest with you. I never heard of AAT, Only CPA (and RA in my country).

But I think it's not a bad job per se, however i'm uncertain about the job security in the future.Accounting is one of the type of jobs that can be easily automated by AI. Though it's very much possible the law will stil require learned individuals to check the books in the end. Still I think it's inevitable that some jobs in the accounting job market will be cut.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/O0QjuZ9v2J0?si=3Nu-q7mb1U2b6wHD

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

I'll be honest with you. I never heard of AAT, Only CPA (and RA in my country).

But I think it's not a bad job per se, however i'm uncertain about the job security in the future.Accounting is one of the type of jobs that can be easily automated by AI. Though it's very much possible the law will stil require learned individuals to check the books in the end. Still I think it's inevitable that some jobs in the accounting job market will be cut.

what about the jump from accounting to freelance

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/O0QjuZ9v2J0?si=3Nu-q7mb1U2b6wHD

Thank you

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

@Rasama
similar experiences except mine def way worse

 

[WastedPotential]

what about the jump from accounting to freelance

probably pretty difficult, you have to build a reputation, market yourself. be consistent with customers. it's going to be a b2b business.

I would recommend first working for a bigger firm initially

 

[The Death Devil]

I want to get into accounting and make some actual money

My, what a coincidence. I was literally JUST looking at this yesterday.

A lot of people say that accounting is one of the best majors that someone can take, and it's what some people in the past have taken in order to pay off their student loans ASAP. Almost every business that's even moderately sizeable needs accountants in some form, so it historically been in demand for a long time and was really easy to get a job in.

One was curious, though, and I searched up if accounting would be affected by AI or not—logically, it seems like it would. If anything, it seems like one of the first few jobs that would get almost entirely outsourced to AI considering that it's just equations. Even though LLMs are (usually) horrible at dealing with math, it's not difficult to set up some kind of system where the LLM merely figures out what needs to be solved and plug that into an advanced calculator desu.

When I searched it up, however, there were swaths of people swearing up and down that AI wasn't going to affect accounting in the slightest. Regardless, I'm unconvinced—I'm 95% sure that these people are just coping and being hopelessly optimistic. I couldn't find a single actual argument as to why AI wasn't going to absolutely BTFO the job market in the next decade, so I still stand by my theory.

In the end, I'm too low-IQ for this kind of stuff, anyway—but it was something interesting to dwell on desu.

 

[The Death Devil]

should i ask reddit too jfl

NO.

I HATE Reddit. I'm confident that every single person that uses that site regularly is an absolute retard and nothing they say should be taken seriously.

 

[Lilwonkycliffy53]

My, what a coincidence. I was literally JUST looking at this yesterday.

A lot of people say that accounting is one of the best majors that someone can take, and it's what some people in the past have taken in order to pay off their student loans ASAP. Almost every business that's even moderately sizeable needs accountants in some form, so it historically been in demand for a long time and was really easy to get a job in.

One was curious, though, and I searched up if accounting would be affected by AI or not—logically, it seems like it would. If anything, it seems like one of the first few jobs that would get almost entirely outsourced to AI considering that it's just equations. Even though LLMs are (usually) horrible at dealing with math, it's not difficult to set up some kind of system where the LLM merely figures out what needs to be solved and plug that into an advanced calculator desu.

When I searched it up, however, there were swaths of people swearing up and down that AI wasn't going to affect accounting in the slightest. Regardless, I'm unconvinced—I'm 95% sure that these people are just coping and being hopelessly optimistic. I couldn't find a single actual argument as to why AI wasn't going to absolutely BTFO the job market in the next decade, so I still stand by my theory.

In the end, I'm too low-IQ for this kind of stuff, anyway—but it was something interesting to dwell on desu.

Thank you