r/nashville • u/nashvillethot east side • May 06 '24

Bro Our Job Market Is SO Bad Discussion

3+ rounds of interviews that stretch on for months.

< 60k pay for MANAGEMENT POSITIONS.

Endless scam listings.

Being ghosted by recruiters and hiring managers after multiple interview rounds.

I am tired. Send help. I hate it here.

Edit: I am not un-employed. Thank you to those reaching out with job postings, I do really appreciate it.

I currently work as a mid-senior manager in the supply chain/ecomm space.

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u/Tad0422 May 07 '24

Ai is a bottom-up tool. I don't care if it eats TurboTax and h&r block. My focus has always been in boutique industries and I do just as much work on the front end of tax strategies to help my client reduce there tax burden.

Unless there's a massive rewrite of the entire tax code, my job is pretty secure for a while.

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u/KsubiSam May 07 '24 edited May 07 '24

inserts joke how the 50th-to-the-last Dodo didn’t realize he was in trouble either.

In all seriousness, I wish you nothing but job security. But to say that an industry predicated on accurate calculations based in a code to calculate them won’t have its metaphorical lunch eaten by AI is naïveté at best.

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u/superhandsomeguy1994 May 07 '24

So what happens when the IRS summons a client to tax court to defend a questionable position but their tax preparer lives in a server warehouse?

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u/Tad0422 May 07 '24

100%. At the end of the day, someone has to take account for what is being filed. AI may be a tool of the future but it isn't going to replace accountants at a high level anytime soon.

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u/Tad0422 May 07 '24

See that isn't what we do. We already have tax software to handle the complex calculations. We are much more high level than that. From planning and consulting to preparing massive returns with 30+ states. At the end of the day, someone (a person) has to sign off and take accountability for the return being filed.

This part of the thread is literally talking about how there isn't enough of us to go around and we can pretty much take any job we want. I am very much into technology (I have been a discounts version of a CTO at several companies) and AI isn't eating anyone's lunch yet. Accounting and tax as so much context to it that I do see how the current LMLs will change the landscape.

AI will more or less be a co-pilot over the next 20 years in our profession. Helping younger accountants learn and older ones with data and stay on top of new changes.