This may end up being more of a rant than an actual question, so I apologize. I'm 4 years into my career and I've spent all of those in public as an auditor. I've been with 2 different firms now and I feel like I'm still not getting better at doing my job. I feel like I'm constantly just repeating the prior years work but then if there's any variation from the prior year, I really struggle. And every time I've tried to go to training or CPE, I feel like I understand it, but then can't apply it to my work. Combine that with the fact that I keep struggling to stay under the budgets I'm given, so I end up panicking and eating hours to look like I'm not as bad. It ends up leaving me stressed out because I go to enter my time and worrying about how it's going to look. I guess the big thing for me is I don't feel like I'm improving. Like at my previous firm I got past over by several people less experienced than me, and I still feel like I'm struggling with things I shouldn't be. Which is made even worse by the fact that I have my CPA. So this leads to my current situation. I have zero confidence in my abilities as an accountant, and I was looking at moving to industry. My hope is that I can get with one company and just get really good at that industry, instead of having to juggle a bunch of different ones and clients. But all I've gotten as far as an offer is for a NFP. At first I thought it was an easy decision since one of my main complaints is I don't feel like audit is just busy work that doesn't build to anything, but now I keep reading about how once you go into NFP it's basically impossible to go back into other industries. So I may come across something down the road I really want to try with better pay and be shit out of luck. And I worry that I may be passing up on a much better opportunity down the road, but bird in the hand, ya know. Pay is only about $5,000 more than what I have now, if that helps. Am I making a mistake? It feels like I'm just leaping at the first way out of public that I see, and that I'm just going to have the same problems but without an easier exit.