You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough to Make Accounting Sound Cool

Posted on by Adrienne Gonzalez
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As seen on Australian Financial Review, a university is handing out a total of $10,000 ($6,659 in freedom bucks) in prize money to any students who can make a compelling case for accounting as a career in a TikTok or Instagram Reel.

The pitch:

The contest is open only to UNSW students over the age of 18 who reside in Australia so no one in our audience get any bright ideas. Don’t think that’ll be a problem anyway.

The winner will receive $5,000 ($3,331 USD); runner up gets $3k and third place $2k.

Accounting in 60 Seconds – Student competition [UNSW]

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Unless you work in a soul-sucking environment with a bunch of glory hogging superiors who are constantly kicking you down, you will get several opportunities to showcase your intelligence during your careers. 

 
Sometimes these opportunities arise at logical places and times like a client meeting or maybe during a training session. It's also possible for these opportunities to arise at unexpected times like at a team lunch when you have broccoli stuck in your teeth or when you are forced pull an LBJ on a colleague because, well, these things happen.

10 thoughts on “You Couldn’t Pay Me Enough to Make Accounting Sound Cool”

  1. Can a few Enron-sized failures happen already? I can’t be the only one thinking this is the most likely candidate to make change in this bottom-of-the-barrel industry.

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  2. Accounting doesn’t need to be cool. It needs to be lucrative. People like money. Money is cool. Money lets you buy cool stuff and do cool things.

    This ain’t rocket science.

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    1. The only issue is that it is in Big4 Partners’ best interest that salaries stay low.

      So until that changes It’s hard to convince the next generation to take a raw deal when they have a choice in the matter.

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      1. At large law firms, it is in the partners’ best interest that salaries stay low. And yet their staff make a lot more money than staff at large accounting firms…

    2. I disagree. Firms offer 5, 10 even 15k referral bonuses and people don’t act on it. They offer 10 or 20k more to stay vs. go – and people still leave. They offer the opportunity to make partner and make hundreds of thousands a year – younger people don’t care.

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  3. Perhaps, the key point should not be about how exciting accounting could be. There are a plethora of professional fields out there that I could not imagine being “exciting.” Take proctology or podiatry for instance. Yet, we never hear about a shortage of them. There are other factors that make the field worth looking at as a possible vocation.

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    1. Granted I only spent 30 seconds Googling this but…

      “An entry-level Urologist with under 1 year experience makes about $403,681. With less than 2 years of experience, a mid-level Urologist makes around $407,560.” 😲

      1. Yeah, but you have to get up close and personal with dudes’ dicks all day. As an accountant, we still deal with dicks all day, but at least they are fully dressed.

      2. Aren’t 1st year urologists like 34 years old? Plus they have 8 years of student loans. That a lot of $$, but . . .

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