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PSA: shadowing for two days beat my three semesters of career research
I spent about a year and a half reading job boards and salary sites before I made any move, and I still got it wrong. Then in March I asked a guy named Darryl at a small accounting firm in Dayton if I could just sit and watch for two days. Watching him do the actual work answered more questions in 14 hours than all those articles did. The job board stuff made the field look like a math test, but the real work was mostly talking to clients and untangling their messy paperwork. He told me straight up that the first year is boring and the pay is low, which nobody in a comment section ever admits. Now I tell everyone to shadow before they commit. How did you all figure out whether a field was actually a fit for you?
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averymitchell11d ago
I mean shadowing shows you the day to day, but it doesn't tell you if you'll like it after year three.
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