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My parents, grandparents, and girlfriend are outside on the patio at my parents' house to celebrate my 24th birthday. This was the first socially acceptable birthday I was able to celebrate since COVID had locked the world down the year prior. It’s 10:50 p.m., and I’m upstairs in my room racing against the clock to hand in my Core 2 module assignment before 11:59 p.m. MT. For the past two hours I had balanced being downstairs for my own birthday and being in my room trying to finish my weekly CPA assignment before the deadline. I’m frustrated, angry at myself, and guilty that I’m absent from my own party. I frantically wrap up a submission to the best of my abilities to obtain an effortful completion mark at best. I go to submit my assignment and hit a save error with OneDrive. My face is red-hot, I’m sweating like I’m watching cops, and I’m directing every profanity in my vocabulary toward my laptop. I fix the issue and hand in my assignment. I look at the clock, and it’s 11:02 p.m. I had traded time with my family to celebrate my birthday for three hours of turmoil and a blank submission. This standalone event is not my reason for leaving public accounting, but I share this to empathize with the extreme pressure junior level staff are under in the financial services sector. In the CPA pathway specifically, you’re taught a lot about accounting standards, audit principles, tax sections, and ethical issues, but you’re never taught how to manage yourself. One year into my accounting career, I started to explore how this would be possible. I practiced mindfulness meditation, I journalled, I utilized counselling, and I started to listen to my values. By the time I had made my decision to leave and help others in the world of the mind, I had already developed a way of being that allowed me to excel in my current accounting career. This allowed me to stick it out through one last busy season and this time, without wanting to set my hair on fire every time I got home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a36b7599f1af12bf270544/10359ace-80b9-4f71-8307-523b32ac4e9b/unsplash-image-irqy6S6IFak.jpg Articles - High performance doesn’t have to feel this hard. - The financial services industry and it’s norms are unlikely to change in the future. The high paying high progression incentives will always draw in competition, and that inevitably leads to long hours being worked to stay competitive and stand out. It would take a change in our economic system or some other radical event to change the norms. For this reason, I take the stance that we can’t change the hours and pressures that these professions demand; however, we can change how we interact and react to them. 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