I am a little bit. I see so some many other careers that are more stable and have virtual guarantee that you will make a decent living. Could have been an electrician, teacher, nurse etc. Not only do they decent pay once you have some years of experience, but they have a great retirement as well. People always undervalue a good retirement plan, cant look at just the yearly salary.

To make good money in accounting you most likely have to have a very stressful job.

I just want a stable job with a good retirement plan. I would kill for $70,000 a year(of course I would like it to be inflation adjusted as well :) ) , work 8-5 and with a pension that is around 10% of my salary.  This is of course in Minnesota, I would want more or less depending on where I lived. (I feel like the IT guy from Office Space!)

Hopefully things will start to turn around for our profession. We really need less people to enter it for that to happen though.Even when the economy improves, we still have too many people in the field.