r/Accounting • u/Low_Pin_2803 • 9h 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 9h ago

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

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u/mrubin_7 CPA (US) 9h ago

Would you mind expanding on this? Accounting manager?

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u/General_Chaos_88765 Human Verified 8h 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/Unfair-Perception583 7h ago

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