Part Time Jobs to Build Rapport in Accounting

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    cpawannabe91
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    Alright guys.

    Here the deal. I have been working at a government agency for 2.5 years. I LOVE the purpose my role is supposed to have but the culture is maddening. So inefficient and archaic and resistant to change. I’ve been on a constant roller coaster of thinking I can change things and that my management supports this, to realizing that no one wants to “rock the boat,” and over again. My supervisor has been dangling promotion over my head for 8 months, leading me to believe it’s never going to happen. I had legitimate harassment concerns regarding a superior and have received no sympathy. In fact, the plan is for me to be sitting directly next to that person in the new cubicle arrangement. I’ve realized I have got to get out.

    I heard some great advice during university that you ought to leave a place before you hate it, and I’m embarrassed to say that I have reached that point regardless.

    I’ve been interviewing (when I even get to that point) but no one wants to hire me, or at least not at a level of compensatiom that would make sense. My experience is so specialized in regulatory accounting that no matter how I try to rephrase my resume, it is a definite road block. I just interviewed at a company and it went really well. It was between me and the successful candidate (according to my contact there) but ultimately they went forward with the other candidate.

    I’ve sent out dozens of applications and no response. I’ve worked with staffing agencies who have reviewed my resume and I really think it’s that no one wants to take a chance on me. I am wary of taking a more “entry level” position because my current job pays pretty well, and I don’t want to build a reputation for taking pay cuts. I know I have to basically rebuild my career but I have to do so carefully.

    So: option two. Keep my current job in the interim and pick up part time work that will give me marketable skills. Right now I’m doing tax prep to supplement my full time job. It’s for individual tax but I feel like at least it’s something.

    Anyone else have other suggestions? Also I realize this post probably sounds super whiny but I am trying to be proactive and fix the problem.

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    Missy
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    You have to understand how hiring works, yes you may pick up some marketable skills in a part time job (although the jobs the employ marketable skills are highly unlikely to be found as a part time side gig I'm sorry to say) but if your competition for a position has been working full time doing those same tasks the hiring manager will lean towards them.

    Keep at it, dozens of resumes out is nothing. It often takes hundreds and a extended period of time to find something. The right job for you is out there but maybe not this week or this month.

    Old timer,  A71'er since 2010.

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    Licensed Massachusetts Non Reporting CPA since 2012
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