It's over!!

Wheeeeeeeeee!!!! Tax season is over, baby! No more saturdays! No more staying late! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

I'm a little hyper today simply cuz I know I can start going home at 5pm on the dot again. How nice! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! Okay, I'll stop.

Honestly though, I'm just so grateful. For everything. For my job, for the non-strenuous tax season. I mean, the latest I stayed at work was 10:15 and that was once. Plus the fact that I took two days off since I was sick last week, it was hardly any overtime at all. I'm so glad I have such a great employer. While the pay will never be as good as a big 4 firm's pay, the stress level will never be as high as a big firm either.

So then the question is, what does one prefer?

Pros of small firm: Close knit working "family". Way less stress and overtime.
Cons of small firm: Less pay. Can't really advance. (Could potentially buy out owner though)

Pros of big firm: Higher pay. Multi-tiered, so lots of room for advancement if you are willing to put in the work.
Cons of big frim: Immpersonal. Lots more stress and overtime.

Hmm.. I'm still not sure where I would want to be in 5 years. Part of me thinks, "well, this small firm stuff isn't so bad. Nice and easy. Probably decent pay once I get my license anyway, so why bother with the unecessary stress?"

Then part of thinks, "well, I can't just stay at one place forever, even though it's comfortable and good enough. Shouldn't I try to strive for something potentially better?"

Decisions, decisions. Oh well, I'll think about it some more next year.

And speaking of grateful. Pretty grateful for the following too:
- increasingly more supportive family
- best hunny bunny I could ever ask for
- a drawerful of kickass friends :D I don't know why you are all in my drawer, but you just are.

time for: shutting up before I really get TOO happy about life as it is now.