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Hello all,
I am 26M in automotive industry as an Industrial Engineer making about $85,000 USD per year before taxes. I am happy with my current role but I do not see any potential for growth or potential to start earning six figures. If I get promoted, I would be earning 7-10k more than my current salary which is not too much considering the state where I live and the cost of living. I was always interested in IT but made a bad decision to not choose it during my bachelors. I have a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering and have over two years of experience.
I am seeking suggestions on how to switch careers and achieve that dream salary or learn about your experiences if you made a switch in careers. I am still very interested in IT but cannot leave my current job since I am the only person earning in my family. Any bootcamps/certifications that would help me kickstart my career in IT/Computer Engineering?
Thank you for your time.

UGHH I swear i can’t take it sometimes. he dodges any type of accountability as if he were a ninja. like literally we can be so close to actually connecting and validation and he drives the fucking car off a cliff. the conversation being the car.
does anyone else’s husband do this? like i have something bothering me and i bring it up and he deflects it with something i’ve done to hurt him. he hijacks the conversation and i’m left being the one to soothe and validate. apologize. it’s insane. i’m starting to think he does not have the ability to be accountable or validate. at least he doesn’t have the care to want to learn these skills.

At the end of June, my bread-and-butter client will not be renewing my retainer agreement. They are 80% of my business.
Cons 1. They were bought out by an international marketing agency at the end of 2023, right as we were renegotiating a contract renewal. Vibe changed significantly. 2. I was on their company email & timesheet & had to track all of my hours, even though I was on retainer. Got emails & assignments several times a week. 3. The grind of completing 2-3 long-form, research-based pieces weekly made me feel like I was on a treadmill. 4. It took longer and longer to get paid.
Pros 1. I got a steady, monthly salary I could predict. 2. I was writing in my niche. 3. I wrote for a variety of thought leaders & products. 4. The people I worked for were great editors, kind, and professional.
I do have savings & a spouse who works FT. We aren’t in danger of losing a house if I miss a paycheck. That said, we live in a medium/ high cost of living area & have a school-aged child.
The economy being what it is—what would you suggest?

1. Take the time to prospect for new clients, solidify relationship with current clients, enjoy summer, etc.
   
2. Start applying to FT copywriting jobs or contract jobs to ensure a more predictable income.
   

Thank you.

I am hoping someone can help me out with this. It seems like it should be a super easy thing to do, but I can't seem to figure it out. I am starting to think that I don't fully understand how the investment funds in my 401K work. I had assumed they were basically ETFs, and that if I googled the name of the fund I would be able to figure out what the stock ticker is for it. But every time I try to do it for any of the funds I have access to, the share price is different than what Voya says it should be. So that makes me think I am not looking at the right thing. One thing I did notice is that Voya refers to it as price per unit, not share. So maybe there is a conversion in there I am unaware of? Here is the break down, there are 4 funds I am currently investing in. All of them have a unit price listed as of 5/20/24. I will list them below. If anyone has any idea what the ticker is for any of these, or another easy way I can monitor them I would really appreciate it. I am trying to avoid using the Voya app unless I need to make changes because the thing is a hot mess.

• State Street S&P 500® Index Non-Lending Series Fund Class A - 479.786060
• Jennison Large Cap Growth Equity - 63.232800
• BlackRock Emerging Markets Index Fund F - 12.048214
• State Street Global All Cap Equity Ex-U.S. Index Non-Lending Series Fund Class A - 22.048515

Ideally, I would like to be able to just add the tickers for the above (if they exist) to a watchlist on my TOS account so I can just see how things are going at a glance. Any help or other suggestions would be appreciated.

Hiya, I need help mathing the exp boosts I have specifically the overlapping of Heat of Battle and Squadron Battle Manual. I want to start off by explaining what EXP boosts I have in the beginning and then the EXP boosts I get when I apply these two items.
Okay lets play this out. I login and get prepared and think about the other EXP boosts that I have:

• I have Armoury Bonus which gives +100% exp when defeating enemies. This is automatically applied to jobs that are 10 levels lower than your highest job you have in your account. Note that once you hit level 80, and you have another job level 90, your armoury bonus on the other jobs gets reduced to half bonus.
  
  • I have access to Mentor exp bonus which gives me +___?% more exp in dungeons. You have to be in the novice network AND you have to party up with a Mentor when going to a dungeon. Note it only works up to level 80. The wiki doesn't tell me exactly how much exp you get... but i'm just going to calculate it at the very end
  • I have Rested EXP that gives +50% extra exp. You slowly gain rested exp the longer you're logged out from a sanctuary city. When you log back in, you can see your exp bar has a extra overlapping line to it.
  • I have my Azeyma's Earrings it gives +30% exp when my current job is level 90 and below
  • I eat my my meals which gives +3% exp 30 minutes duration. You can eat 2 at a time so that u only have to worry about that every hour.
  • This is Heat of Battle. Its a Free Company action that gives extra exp in dungeons after you defeat a mini-boss or boss. Theres 3 of them: version 1, 2, or 3. They give either +5%, +10% or +15% extra exp in that order. The link i provided is the version II (10%). I double check this and consistently my Free Company runs this everyday but sometimes they do version 3.

This is Squadron Battle Manual. An item you consume that gives you +15% extra exp in dungeons after you defeat mini-boss or boss. This also has a description of , "Overwrites company actions with similar effects." Note that I will initially have this off. I will use this when im going to kill a 2nd boss to compare.
I ran msq roulette with a mentor and killing the 1st boss gave me +313% Right before the 2nd boss, I used the Sqaudron Battle Manual, killing 2nd boss gave me +328% Does that mean Mentor EXP bonus gives me 130% EXP?
Heres the weird part:
My Free Company SOMETIMES run Heat of Battle version 3 which gives +15% instead of the usual +10%. When this happens:
I would run roulette with a mentor and killing the 1st boss gave me +328% already Right before the 2nd boss, I used the Squadron Battle Manual, killing 2nd boss still gave me +328%
Help me make this make sense thank you.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2151860005?t=0h25m13s
I don't have a video clip of running roulette when my free company does Heat of Battle 3, let me know if you want me to make one.

Hello. First of all, I want to give some context to myself, as I just created this account for this very post:
I am a 23 year old swiss guy. I am NOT diagnosed, I have never gone to therapy or any of the like (my dad has a rather "conservative" view on mental health), and I don't even know if I have depression. In my mind I always thought that my "suffering" wasn't bad enough or that my life was too good to call myself depressed, especially when I compare myself to my own view of a depressed person.
That said, for the longest time now I have noticed that I enjoy things less and less. It started in a simple way, where I just wouldn't really feel like doing something and instead just stayed at home, kind of just rotting away while listening to music and trying to come up with something that I wanted to do.
I even took a break off work (I have been working since 15), since I thought I might just be burned out or something, but that didn't help. It felt like it just made it even worse - with so much free time, it became even more obvious that there was quite literally nothing I really wanted to do. Don't get me wrong, there are still things I enjoy - like photography and nature - but these feel like fleeting happy moments. The moment I get home and don't know what to do, I not only feel empty again, but I spiral down into negativity and start to question if I even had fun in the first place. Hobbies that excited me don't interest anymore, it feels like a chore to talk to friends that I once wanted to spend as much time with as possible, and my self worth has plummeted all the way to the bottom. I even act self destructive sometimes; pushing friends away or purposefully punishing myself for no reason.
I'm afraid of how people perceive me and try my best to act happy, especially in front of my family, but it's just such a drag. When I think back, I genuinely don't know when this started. Me being genuinely excited and happy feels like an eternity away (while I was going through puberty my family kind of split up as my sister had an eating disorder, and I feel like it all started there?)
Anyway, I'm just genuinely confused and unsure what to do. Is feeling this way normal? Is it just a phase? I know that my life is objectively pretty decent, compared to how bad others have it, so I feel like shit for not enjoying it. I've tried finding things that I like, but it just feels impossible, especially because going out of my comfort zone is so scary and I keep coming up with excuses to just stay at home doing absolutely nothing.
Sorry for the long rant, does anyone feel a similar way?

Let me start off saying that I love the science and I love working with children but these companies are absolutely unhinged and awful. Of course, not all, but the fact is, finding a good ABA clinic is rare. I don't expect perfection and I understand the business aspect of needing money to keep a business going but I am so tired of working for these billing mills. So many unethical practices just all over the place. Techs not being trained properly, clients being neglected, billing always being a constant topic shoved down my throat...it's never-ending. I'm only a BCaBA and I have my own caseload of 12 clients. I barely have time to focus on my class work because my BCBAs are pushing everything on me and constantly pushing for more billing. Pressuring parents to increase their child's hours when they're already struggling to make their current appointments due to other things in their daily schedules. The technicians I come across are so poorly trained they can't even pair with a client properly. When I offer to train, the company tells me they won't pay the techs for it. This is the third company in a year where I am resigning because the conditions are absolute garbage. These are the companies that people think of when they think negatively of ABA and I'm so tired of being a part of it. The supervision I get is trash too, I don't feel like I'm learning half of what I should be. And any time I go to the BACB, they brush things off with saying either lack of evidence or that I'm filing in retaliation. This was after a BCBA put her hands over a child's mouth (on camera and deleted the footage) and restrained them which was highly unnecessary. I've been in this field for 10 years and I don't know if I'll make it another. I want to be a BCBA but getting my hours is impossible working under these conditions and I don't want to be part of a field that does not hold the wrongdoers accountable.

Throwaway account and I've never posted on this sub before so forgive me for any format issues. I'll be adding small details as well because I'm not sure if it's needed info or not.
So my mother (36f), her boyfriend (35m) and I (16f) were sitting together huddled as a group in our kitchen quite late at night. Important to note that they were drinking like any other night. We were just talking about how our day went when a conversation started about my uncle (mom's older brother) who my mother is NC with, the bf asked me if I still see him as my uncle after things went down between my mother and my uncle, I replied with "he might not be her brother anymore but he's still my uncle." He's the only father figure I've known all my life and we're still in contact something which both of them are already aware of. Out of seemingly nowhere the bf asked "why is your dad not your dad even though he was once your mother's husband?" To my understanding, he said this because my mum isn't in contact with either of them whereas I still consider my uncle as family and my dad is just a place holder. It broke my heart. I quickly turned away from the table we were sitting at to feed the cat with tears falling down my face at this point. He followed it up with "I mean by the logic you're using..." to which my mom quickly said "Can we not talk about this?" To which he replied "okay, I didn't say anything wrong anyways." I left the room shortly after without saying anything to them. While I was making my way to my room he called after me to come back and I simply said I would come back after a while as I had a project to complete to which he said "I don't need you later on." I ignored it and locked myself in my room and sobbed for a little while because it cut deep, my dad has always been a very sensitive subject and he knows it. I have never spoken about my dad to him or even my mother just because it always hurts to bring up and I'm not comfortable talking about him. Emphasis on I have never spoken about my dad to the bf in the two years I've known him/ lived with him for. When I finally did leave my room I heard them arguing, my mother was yelling about how bringing up my dad while we spoke about my uncle is irrational and not the same thing. They fought till 6 in the morning which included breaking stuff in their room. At some point during the fight he came to me and told me to get her to sleep in her room because she wasn't listening to him. And that's all, no apology no nothing. While I am upset I can't help feeling like maybe I shouldn't have left the room or cried in the kitchen? My mother hasn't said anything to me either and I feel guilty for causing a rift between them when everything was going great. So reddit, AITA?

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Time to whine, sorry in advance.
Is anyone else starting to feel like there is not much point anymore? It feels like even though I'm pushing and advancing the goal posts just get moved to an entirely different field... And then they change the sport.
What's the point anymore? Oh, you're making more than your parents? What's the problem then? Well, I didn't get to buy a home 30 years ago when I could make minimal money and keep my mortgage payments. Oh yea and it takes both of us to work to make that happen. No one is home watching the kids, spending the day tidying up or home making ... We're at work and then come home and try to be better parents than ours were.
What's the point? Hard work has zero routes guaranteed success. I can bust my ass all day long but if there's no room to advance or no budget to get a raise I get nothing. I wonder why there's no room or budget? Could it be the upper end of management is past typical retirement age with all time high salaries accruing more and more wealth?
What's the point? The American dream is anyone can make a life for themselves, an equal opportunity to succeed. Is that really true? I come up with a great idea, I put all my capital into it and I venture out into the entrepreneur world only to get my idea stolen by Amazon and quickly put out of business. I get one shot at this. That's not equal at all, as I get one dart throw and wealthy can just throw unlimited dart throws until one hits a bullseye and then they can write some bullshit article about persistence and hard work.
What's the point? Go to college, that's how you make money. Education is so important... Take on these loans it won't matter. Also, we now don't like that woke ideology and we're literally banning books like some fucking post apocalypse the giver bullshit, suggesting women cannot decide what to do with their bodies, and have not argued about politics for what the ideals are in a decade... Not that it matters since there are so few people in our government that can understand what today is really like... Or not click phishing emails for that matter.
What's the point? I watch my youngest child grow up and spend most of my time away from her, catching up on chores and errands, and stressing than I do quality time with her. The taxes I pay get cut for her education or to tax breaks for companies.
I'm struggling to see the point. This is not like an I'm giving up and checking out thing at all. I've been fortunate enough to have access to therapy (wtf why is it so expensive). This is more of a general apathy and I can't really care about most shit anymore thing.
Thanks for letting me rant.

I feel so blessed pero very conflicted ngayon. Currently working for a BPO for a US client. Very supporting si client, super chill work, parang tropa na kami as we banter and mostly 2 hrs at max ang trabaho kahit na office based. No time trackers, no KPIs relatively good pay, sakto lang na nakakapag splurge. May nag offer sa akin sa linkedin na company that offers direct clients. Karamihan ng batchmates ko nandun and offers x3 salary (base pay palang), wfh pero night shift. Accounting niche, anyone who has faced a similar situation or any opinions please. Feel ko din kasi nagiging dull na skills ko since wala ginagawa daily halos kaso i am afraid to fail if I move. Also in law school kaya idk talaga haha. Thanks!

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Hey everyone (sorry for the essay in advance),
Not sure who will be able to help me out here but wanted to ask for some advice from this group specifically.
I am currently sitting for my CPA exams having passed two and waiting for the two others to get released coming soon (fingers crossed felt good on them).
I have been working at a local tax firm family operated within the state. I have 2 years of tax experience in total. Starting at this current job close to 1 year ago. But a total of 3 busy seasons in tax.
Just some needed background on what I want to ask.
I am in a predicament with my pay being relatively low. Yes I have bounced around from 3 other accounting jobs but I’ve finally got my shit together and am almost a CPA.
I currently am making $50k, a rate I was happy with when being put on as I was not getting entertained by much accounting jobs at the time of hire.
Since then we have recently hired a relatively new hire who I have become friends with the past 3 months. He finally spilled the beans on how much he was making with similar experience but located at a different office located roughly 2 hours away in somewhat of a larger city. He is making $57k having not passed any exams yet but we are the same age. He possibly might be the same level as me if not a little higher or lower.
My question is do I approach my boss on this and ask him what’s up here potentially throwing my buddy under the bus for talking about salary or do I just push through these last few exams and wait for my pay raise to come then?
Family dynamics are big at this job and it’s kind of annoying but I have learned to live with it. I guess I plan on going big 4 until I’m senior for potentially two years once I’m licensed but wanted to entertain some reddit thoughts on what I should do. Thanks!!

Hello,
The reason I’m posting this is really for one reason; to clear up any sort of misinformation and misunderstandings of what the DSVA experience was like, but also to speak on other NATSAP program experiences since so many people here believe that these programs are nothing more than “labor camps” and “punishments for youth”.
Allow me to clear the air a little.
Now, I’m not here to discredit anyone’s negative experience or to say your experience wasn’t traumatic in any way. I’m not here to tell you that you can’t feel the way you feel about these places. My condolences go to the family’s or friends that have lost a loved one because of these programs. May they rest in peace.
I’m here to shed some light on this topic in a perspective, from someone that lived it, that maybe you haven’t considered yet.
Let me start by sharing a lil info about me. My name is Ian. I am 23 years old. Born and raised in Wisconsin later moved to North Carolina where I live today. My life hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows. If I were to go into full detail of all the major life events that led me to who I am today, it would probably take me a whole day to share completely the full “trauma” of my “troubled youth”. Nobody likes that guy anyway, so I’ll spare you the bullshit.
Here’s some credibility to the naysayer’s, who I’m sure are gonna ride me up and down for this post.
Lacrosse juvenile detention center (WI): 14-15 years old In and out for weeks-months
New vision wilderness program (WI): 15 years old 3 months
Winnebago mental health institute (WI): 15 years old 1 month
New vision wilderness program (WI): (Yes I went a second time) 15 years old 2 months
Montford Hall residential substance abuse treatment center and therapeutic boarding school for boys (NC): 15-16 years old 6 months (Court ordered for a year, kicked out for being unmanageable)
Second nature/blue ridge wilderness program (GA): 16 years old 1 month
Mission hospital Copestone (NC): 16 years old 2 weeks
Discovery School of Virginia for boys (VA): 16-17 years old 1 year
In total:
1 - juvenile detention center 2 - psych wards 3 - wilderness programs 2 - boarding schools
I wasn’t at home from the age of 15-17 years old. All my birthdays and holidays were spent in some jail cell, institution, or some program somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Calling ourselves survivors is absurd. There was never any real danger to your life, you and I both know that. (Again, this is directed more towards the people that have either attended some of the same programs/treatments or have attended a place very similar to it.) Especially at DSVA or any wilderness program.
We were fed three times a day with edible food, full portions, even including snacks now and then. We were given clean drinking water. We were able to practice good hygiene, like brushing your teeth twice a day, taking warm showers, given clean towels and clothes that bested the outdoors, even toilet paper to wipe your own ass. Our sleep schedule was better than that of what we have today, at least 8 hours of sleep. I remember having about 10 hours of sleep every single night. And no matter where we laid our head at night, we always had something over us to protect us from the elements. Whether it was a tarp, a tent, or for the lucky ones, a literal roof.
Everything that I have just listed above is every humans basic needs for survival. Something the programs I attended always made sure we had. To call ourselves survivors means we were battling death in order to live. When was there ever a situation at these programs where you were in a life or death scenario? Coming from someone that has hiked in -20 degree blizzards of northern wisconsin and worked in 90 degree humidity in the clay of Virginia, sounds pretty over dramatic buddy.
When I first heard of people calling themselves “survivors” that went to similar programs as me, I had to laugh. It’s such a ridiculous thing to say and I always get second hand embarrassment. I have never once in my life considered myself a “survivor” of these programs because if it wasn’t for ME and MY ACTIONS, I wouldn’t be there in the first place.
The only logical explanation I would accept for anyone here wallowing in their own self-pity is that you didn’t actually work the program. What I mean by that is that you “faked it till you made it” and you put on this smile pretending everything was all good in your world so that nobody called on you when it came time to work on yourself.
To tell you the truth, we used to pick on kids like that in my group. You were perceived as weak by your group mates if you couldn’t talk about the things that hurt you, especially with a bunch of guys that your forced to live with everyday. If you didn’t want to fess up to your issues, we made sure to call a group meeting so you could get that off your chest. Why? Because it’s not about you. It’s about the group, and if one man has a bad day, then the whole group has a bad day. We’re not saying you can’t have a bad day, but we’re not gonna let you slow down the group because of it.
That was group Dakota DSVA 2016-17 right there baby. We were always on top, always eating in the lodge, never had some kid ruining our fun because we didn’t rock with that selfish crap. You want to cry about having to dig out a tree stump with Mr. Outland all day or push wheelbarrows all day? Tough luck kid, we all had to do it at one point or another. Grow a pair and keep your head up.
Most of the kids that complained about everything were the rich kids with daddy’s money who never spent a night outside their bougie gated community. LOL. You know who you are. All mad because their parents wouldn’t let their spoiled kid buy drugs with their money anymore. Sorry you got “gooned” buddy. Each time I showed up to a program I was in shackles and chains, cry harder.
Some people here will probably think what I’ve said so far is insensitive, maybe even harsh, but I ask you, what good does it do you to complain constantly about what happened to you in the past? Have you benefited from whining about what happened to you at these places?
I used to think and react the same way you people did not too long ago. I used to have that victim mentality. I’d walked around crying “woe is me”, but nothing changed. The world kept spinning and I felt like I was left behind in a world that could never understand the mental anguish I received from these “horrible” places.
Turns out I was right, they could never understand. Why? Because they never experienced it, but we did. That makes us stronger in so many ways. I used to feel sad that I never took a cute girl to prom, only to realize that while people were finishing up high school in some boring class, I was going from state to state backpacking and hiking for miles. Living outside for months on end, battling the elements, making amazing friends, reaching new destinations and seeing amazing views. I was doing things that my peers today will probably never get to experience in their lifetime. It gave me a feeling of pride that I still cherish to this day. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
It hurt not being home. I hated my parents for allowing the courts to keep sending me to these places. I refused to write them, but I knew it wasn’t their fault. It was me who put myself in those programs, not the court, not my family, I alone made my life that way, because of my actions. Not being able to be at home with my sister, who grew up without her older brother for 3 years, that broke my heart. When my parents were allowed to visit me it was a special occasion full of celebration, especially when I got to see my little sister again. All my hard work to see my family each time made me feel not just accomplished, but a happiness that I rarely feel today. It reminds me of how grateful I am for my family, and forgiving me for the hell that I put them through in my former years.
I used to think I deserved an apology for what I went through. I’ve taken my accountability, where’s the sympathy for me? I blamed everyone else for what happened to me, and maybe there’s some truth in that, but when I considered how I got to these programs it made me realize how wrong I was. I used to think the reason I was in those programs was because my parents didn’t want to parent me, or that the court system failed me.
Nah, it’s because I was a troubled kid. With a lot of anger and a lot of pain that no ordinary therapist could even begin to scratch the surface of. I needed that tough love that I never got, and if it wasn’t for these programs, I wouldn’t be who I am today. Someone who is happy with what they’ve got.
Anyways, take what you will from all of this. I just wanted to put this out there for the world to see in case somebody sees it and realizes they relate to it. Our past doesn’t have to define us, and it can make us warriors instead of victims. Nobody’s gonna make that decision for you. It’s up to you to create a brighter future.

A little backstory my best friend died two weeks ago. It’s been really hard for me
Recently, we got our yearbooks and I was so happy because I knew my best friend would be in there. I remember we did a photo together and was hoping it would be put in the yearbook and it was
Friends with my best friend followed me on TikTok now. I am not friends with this girl and I don’t really like her as drama tends to follow her everywhere. She goes but no bad blood between us. We just don’t talk
I noticed she followed me on TikTok and I checked her profile, realized she was using the photo of me and my Bestie from the yearbook as her profile picture and it makes me a bit uncomfortable all the photos you could’ve used my Bestie you picked the one with me and her kind of weird
In her TikTok post, she’s made some for my Bestie I saw that there’s a photo of her and my bestie that she could’ve used for the profile picture for her account
I feel kind of uncomfortable on why she would be using a photo of me and my best friend as her profile picture it’s uncomfortable. Why not use a different one why with me and her? It’s just something I don’t understand.
I asked my boyfriend if I was overthinking, but he said it does seem weird, especially if she has a photo with my best friend
I don’t know if I should reach out to her or not because I don’t want drama or trouble to start as it follows her everywhere she goes so what should I do? What are your thoughts?
I wish she would’ve came and talked to me about using it as a profile picture especially since I’m in it and we’re not even friends

Hi, I am a recent grad with a govt job, so I qualify for PSLF, SAVE plan.
I was wondering different people approach decisions to stay/leave public interest (i.e. keep or lose the PSLF). Pros/cons, how do you calculate salary, payments, etc.
Additional information: I have about 250k in loans, paying in full without PSLF would be about $3k/month for 10 years. I just started working/paying off loans. Currently GS 11-8.
Thanks in advance!

What exactly needs to happen to win this bet? Does the batter need to swing 3 times and miss in order to win bet? Or does the pitcher just need for him to strikeout to win the bet?

I am 22 years old and I aspire to become an accountant. I'm soon starting school again to pursue the degree, and I think what caught my attention most was the fact that accounting provides a lot of branches and opportunities one can get into(Also the pizza parties are to die for according to you guys haha jk). Apart from being financially literate which is also a pro, but in my ignorance I wish to one day open up my own firm. Why do many accountants avoid this path? I understand being an entrepreneur isn't for everyone but for example you've been in the industry for 20+ years what is stopping many from becoming independent?! I come from a line of entrepreneurs in my family and it's always been an inspiring dream of mine to have my own business someday. I like accounting and it's what I have in mind. Now again is it worth starting a business in this industry? I really like bookkeeping but I keep hearing AI will replace it or has, should I be concerned? What are things that make it very complicated for accountants to open up their own firms or even in general getting side work aside from your day to day job. Please be nice, I'm just looking for some solid advice and trying to grasp peoples perspective on becoming an entrepreneur in this industry. Thank youuu :))

Should I runaway
I'm 15 and I want to run away. I just moved away from my dad he was abusive and now I live with my auntie and grandma because my mom is in jail. My mom isn't abusive and my auntie and grandma aren't but my auntie is kicking me out because I didn't clean my grandmas room even though I'm not the only that be in there and she's mad about the kitchen being dirty she gets mad cause she doesn't want to clean up after everyone but she expects me to do it. I feel like I get treated different and they always talk bad about my mom. So she's kicking me out. My mom don't have a house she lives with her cousin. I don't want to be there. It's not really bad but I just dont want to be there. Nothing is stable. I move around a lot. I don't know anyone I have no friends or money. I hate sharing a small room with two others. If I leave my mom won't have to worry about me anymore she can focuse on stuff. I'm sure my family doesn't like me anyway. I don't like them either. I don't like my dad's family or my mom's. Everyone is just fake and weird. There are so many rapist and pedos in my family and no one acknowledged it. My cousins and uncle are weird. Everyone is weird. It's a small town I live in so a lot of people are somehow related. I just want to leave this dumb place. I want to go to California. Or new York. I hate this place I hate Atlanta I hate Georgia I hate where I live. I want to leave my family. I want to leave Georgia. I could sell my video game and other stuff but I doubt that's going to help me get far. I will sell my ps4 and save up to buy a phone so I can still call my mom make sure she's fine. I would ask my sister to come but I don't know yet. I don't think she likes this place either. But I'm sure she wants to stay with my brother. But I'm just tired of having to always do stuff for other people and when I stand up for myself it's talking back or whatever. All the bad stuff my sister did and I get kicked out for talking back or not cleaning. I really do feel like they treat me different. Both families do. There not my family anymore. My mom sister and brothers are the only people I love. And my cat. I'm taking my cat with me. But I should wait until 16. I want to goto college and air force and I need school but it's going to be hard to go to school if I run away. I don't know. I just can't stand being around these people anymore. They are all weird. I can't stand them. I feel like I'm the only one aware of this crap. Others are aware they just don't care. I'm the only one who cares. I don't want kids here. I dont want family here. I want to leave. I need to save up a lot of money and leave. But I can't. I don't have money or a job. But Im going to run away I think and I'll ask my sister to come with me. All I need d a bank account and a job. I could go to be York everything is walking distance so I dont need a car. But I need to get to new York. But I really want to go to California for the beach. Florida is an option also. But California and new York is to far. I might have a better chance in Florida. But I haven't really planed anything. But I'm going to start tonight. After everything is planned I'll talk to my sister.