Do most people see Accountants as boring, serious, intimidating?

[SabinaV]

[sage2021]

I worked in a CPA firm for a couple of years and it was very stressful working with them and mostly their staff. Both the accounts and administrative staff.

It was not a fun place to work, that's for sure.

These people wouldn't answer their phones and talk to their clients which made the clients mad.

There was jealousy and rivriary between the Principal's which made one of them quit working there after 15 years of her working her butt off.

For some reason almost all of the employees (about 30) were mean people!!

[NathanDavis]

my best friend... he's technically, an accountant, lmao

but he's far from boring, he can be serious yes... but most of the time he isn't, just like yours truly

intimidating? only if you provoke with wrong reasons, otherwise... he's just a great great guy

[MrChinaski]

If you are good, it is still a path into senior management, business consulting and finance, often with an accompanying MBA.

If not, most of the work has gone digital or to India. So it's just a generic degree that mainly shows you have the sustained determination to finish a degree.

[Calyptomaniac]

The job itself seems boring and serious. I don't know that I'd find someone crunching numbers intimidating, at least not because of their job... maybe if they were intimidating otherwise, but they don't tend to be...

[exitseven]

I have a degree in accounting and I definitely did not want to sit for the CPA exam and become and accountant. It looked pretty boring to me.

[Phoenix98]

I'm not really a math guy so it doesn't really appeal to me personally I find math in general to be fairly boring.

Obviously it's an important job though.

[Tamera952]

All of the above, but mainly as boring. Because numbers, figures, math, etc. is a big snooze. Nothing says nap time like an excel spreadsheet.

[AngryCarl3]

They're boring and the job requires them to be serious. I don't find them intimidating but then both of my brothers were accountants at one time or another.

[Anonymous]

Yes! And it’s not true. Doctors and lawyers and hedge fund managers are seen as more fun but accountants can be fun too.

[AviatorTom]

Not at all. I once dated an accountant. She was hot 😉

[Anonymous]

What is intimidating about an accountant? Their job is to literally balance accounts.

[canamlusciouslad73]

THE FIRST TWO, AND THE THIRD IN TERMS OF BRAINS.

[Sunday2001]

Neither it important one wrong mistake and you could be going away for tax evasion.

[robocop666]

they have a boring job and talk other people to death for it

[Nikki1989]

Boring, maybe.

[browsingthroughthe]

Uptight some of them 🤓 😡

[Anonymous]

Probably boring.