We hear and see it every year. Tax pros and accountants alike going through this annual waterboarding of sorts called “busy season,” swearing each year this will be the last one like this. So, when will it be?
No one wants burnout, or worse. And, I will profess, the business world needs accountants; it’s better with them in it. You all know this, but also know there are fewer of you in it to “do the work.” So, you stay with the same processes and clients, putting up with it at nearly all hours: the calls, the questions, the emails, hours on hold with the IRS, and a myriad of things in between the life you are also trying to live.
So I ask again, why do you do it? When exactly will enough BE enough? I’m not saying leave and go do something else, but how you do what you do may need your foot to finally come down. And if I’m being honest, in my three decades of overseeing this profession, for those of you still doing little about it, I’m not certain what it’s going to take, and it makes me a bit worried.