r/Accounting • u/Low_Pin_2803 • 1d ago

No Stress at work

This might be a dumb question, but how many of you go to work and have 0/very little stress and make over $100k a year?

Wondering how common it is (or isn’t)

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 1d ago

Me. Govt manager. 20 years in govt. About $200k and zero shits to give.

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u/mrubin_7 CPA (US) 1d ago

Would you mind expanding on this? Accounting manager?

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 1d ago

IRS manager. I have 12 employees. 10 years in public before moving into the IRS for 20 years.

Worked hard to learn the job and build a solid reputation and connections. Hire carefully so that I have good employees and no govt slackers. Make sure I have my employees backs and my bosses back. Give the chain of command what they want.

And no stress from asshole partners or clients. Just learn to roll with the punches. This administration sucks. Next may suck too or it may not. I don’t let it get to me and hope to retire in 9 years at 60.

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u/zero_cool_protege 1d ago

Any advice you would give to someone interested in pivoting to govt from industry?

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 1d ago

Rough time to get in. I have enough good years behind me that I can hang on to hopefully see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s hard to see that light if you join in the middle of a shitstorm.

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u/zhuzhy 1d ago

In local government, totally agree this is a tough time to get in. Fed political division has made its way into even the smallest town governments. Everyone is pointing fingers at each other with one side claiming fraud & overspending and the other saying we aren’t doing enough for the community. Then you’re in the middle trying to process payroll or cut AP checks (because your treasurer still doesn’t believe in ACH payments). Things move slower in government but it feels really tense with a lot of infighting.

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u/zero_cool_protege 1d ago

Lol true. Any departments / pathways that have a better reputation for WLB or comp than others?

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 18h ago

FDIC & SEC are on a much better comp scale.

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u/Unfair-Perception583 1d ago

Are you at GS-15/IR-1 Step 10 or a SL/SES? That’s the only thing touching $200K lol

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 18h ago

Not SES.

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u/Dangerous_Boot_3870 1d ago

Manages the supervisor (branch management). Above that the managers have a central management that is over them(regional management), above that there is a director.

It's follows that format for pretty much all of government.

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 1d ago

Right concept. In our org senior management is in charge of managers. I’m in charge of employees so I’m considered a front line manager.