Usually 5-7 years.

Same with big4+ in accounting.

I always wonder why Misc gets such boners over engineering. Great field, need to be smart, with good stability and you usually start off at like 70 right out of college at 22/23 which is very solid... but it's tough to climb the ladder and make real money.

Worked for a major billion dollar engineering company for a few years. You'd have 500 engineers all making 80-120 for most of their life because anytime a position opened up for a manager or director or vp level where solid money was you'd have 100+ candidates internally wanting it.

Patents are where the money is in engineering. Or a cush job in a construction or consulting company.

Bruh, where are these hoes at in PDX? All I see are blue-haired baristas or liberal arts majors (srs)

Yeah, accounting is an underrated degree on the Misc. Outside of a relatively small group of software engineers, engineering doesn't pay that well. You make great money initially, but you cap out really quickly unless you're the smartest guy in the room (i.e. principal engineer) or are able to make it to manager, which is tough since you don't really learn business sense as an engineer. I once asked an engineer what his net worth would be 10 years from now if he has $50K liquid and we assume a return of 7% per annum. He couldn't figure that out even though it's literally simple multiplication/a geometric series. This is a dude who crushed advanced calculus at UT-Austin too, so definitely not a dumbass. Accounting pays like **** initially and has horrible hours. If you stick it out for 5-7 years, however, you can exit to Manager and make >$120K all-in by 30-31 for a normal work week. Then, as long as you don't **** up, do your time, and get your CPA, you'll make VP and be earning at least $200K in most markets by late-30s or 40. It's also considered a second-tier career, so you're not competing with the smartest, hardest working, most type-A people in the world like you are in IB/Software/Medicine/Law.

Do you happen to know any decent recruiters/recruiting firms for corp finance in Chicago? I'm going to relocate there in January, assuming my Company lets me, and want to bounce to industry because consulting has been horrible in a non-travel environment. I am Big 4 + CPA, so I'd like to think I'm pretty qualified lol.