Tax Accounting

Well the idea is to keep options open for the time being. Auditing strikes me as really boring so I'm not interested in that, especially since I don't have the bubbling personality they seem to want for that. I could go after some valuation type jobs but I'm not sure how transferable those are. Also more difficult to get and lots more hours.

Hi Diogenes,

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your awesome GMAT score.

I'm currently a Tax accountant at a Big 4, and while I have not enrolled in an MBA program/began a post/MBA career, I thought I might share some of my experiences about my industry and why an MBA.

From my observation, most people who start off in my company usually end up leaving, with maybe half doing something completely non-tax related. Some people leave for a JD or MBA, others do something else professional-services related, while the rest settle down into a tax accounting career in industry. I think that while the technical knowledge you'll learn from your job won't transfer too greatly to other career paths, the work experience itself of learning and growing in a profession, working with people (hopefully in a leadership capacity), and performing well relative to your peers are all pretty neat things to gain from this career path, or any career path, really. What I am trying to say is, since you are pretty young, if tax intially interests you, why not? Plenty of people leave tax to do something else, and in the first few years of your career, it's more about you learning to become the best professional/workplace leader/employee that you can be, not necessarily acquiring all the technical knowledge applicable to your field.

It seems that you have a few options; I say just go for the job, kick major butt, and then after 2-3 years, you'll probably have a better sense of what you'd like to do - I don't believe that you will feel "stuck". Using me as an example, I have been employed for a little over 2 years, (with Masters in Tax and CPA), yet I feel no regrets in pursuing a completely new and unrelated career path post-MBA (non-profit) - I am glad to have had the experience I've enjoyed, and feel like I've grown and learned much about myself as a person and as a professional in the past few years.

I hope this helped, and I wish you the best of luck in whichever path you decide to take in the future!

Okay that was what I'm looking for. I'm not that young(late 20's) so I need to get rolling. I'm a vet so I have that going for me in terms of grad school.