Thanks everybody for your help.  Thanks TTESSTT for your wonderful reply.  I think I can use your words for my next interview.  Your words explained what had happened to me without badmouthing anybody.  I do not want to work for any public accounting firm any more because of my bad experience in my firm.  I had happy industry experience so I would stay with it.  Thanks everybody for your support.

Dahlia,

Just some questions? You accepted 2 offers?  Are they both from a CPA firm?  How will you say to the  offers that you accepted that you decided to pursue the other offers?

Dahlia1 wrote: cpakop, I feel your pain. When I have read your post, I felt like I was living through that. I learned about eating the hours because I was fired one month after I got a job with a small CPA firm. None of my coworkers told me about it. I guess they just did not like me so they let me sink. I was working 10 hours a day and was documenting these hours which I should not have done. During my "exit interview" the owner asked me why it took me 2 hours to enter a couple of W-2s. Well, may be because I have never worked with this software before. I was hired as an entry level, so I did not lie about my skills. I was asking my coworkers a lot of questions and they probably did not want to be distracted. So, I got axed. Now, since I was smart to accept 2 offers, I started my fall job and I am applying all the lessons learned at the previous place. I work 10 hours a day and record only 8 hours but I am still behind the budget. I was given C-corp return with 13 hours budget and I spent 20 hours and not even half way done. So, I might get fired from this firm too. I am very scared. I have never done C-corp return so I learn as I go and of course it takes me longer than normally since it is my first return but I have a feeling that the expectation of the owners that I finish it on budget. So, my question is "Where do you learn if no one will give you a break?". I do not think of myself as a stupid person and I love, LOVE taxation.

Hi DahLia1,

Thank you for sharing your story with us.  I think as long as we love taxation, we can become an expert in this field eventually no matter where we work.  It is good to work for public accounting firms as we can learn so many things in a short period of time.  It is good to work in industry as well because you get more time to figure things out by yourself and do not need to worry about the timesheet. 

I think people in this forum are very smart, passionate about what they are doing.  I am not successful in accounting firms so I really cannot give you a good idea what talents they are looking for.  Previously I thought I could do any accounting job after I passed my CPA exams but apparently I am still not good enough.