This is not a “woe as me” type of post. I am a 27M (not married, no kids) and don’t have debt outside of my mortgage and have decent savings for someone my age. However my career or lack thereof, is a cluster fuck lol.
Live in the Southeast US, graduated from a small private university with bachelor’s in accounting and supply chain. My internship got canceled because of covid so when I graduated in 2021, I took a job as essentially a bookeeper that helped with month endfor an event/wedding industry company. Owner would fly off the handle so I got a year of experience and dipped as I was only making $1200/ month.
Went to industry and “worked” as a staff accountant. This was a strange job because right before I came on the company had been bought out and the controller would often leave during the middle of the day to tend to her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and essentially said because she had to learn what the new corporate office expected of our department, she would pass tasks down as she got comfortable. However, she never passed anything down so I essentially only helped the purchasing department and worked on inventory reports. My manager was a sweet lady but she had never been anything but a senior accountant so I just think she struggled to delegate, handle the role and tend to her mother. I suppose I should’ve been looking for a new job but I was young and dumb and just excited to make above $50k. After seven months, I got laid off in a cost cutting measure by corporate.
Took me six months to find a new role as an investor accounting analyst at a mortgage company. I handled bank recs and amortization schedules for Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae loans. I struggled in the role because I knew literally nothing about the mortgage industry but I eventually found my footing. Although after nine months, my job moved to a different state after the mortgage company was bought out and I was laid off again. This happened May of 2024.
I think the short stints scare white collar folks off but I really would like to know if I could get back in to the accounting world or should I just quit? Since being laid off in 24, I’ve worked a customer service job for $20/hr at a company that helps corporations monitor their utility expenditures and worked on flipping a house. As I’ve said, I don’t have any debt other than a mortgage and have five figures worth of savings but I know in my current role I have extremely limited earning potential. I don’t really love accounting and seems like the industry folks don’t want to hire someone with a fucked resume.
Give it to me straight, should I leave this profession?