Location: UK I'm stuck at a bit of a crossroads in my career, and I don't know what to do next. I'm 3 years post-qual ACCA working in compliance and occasional advisory in an independent practice. Things have been going quite well until recently, when the firm starting investing in offshoring. We've had 6 remote workers from Asia recruited, and it's been a complete shambles. Two of the hires didn't even start, two have been sacked for lying on their timesheets, one has been moved to admin duties (and as I understand it on the verge of being sacked) and the last one is with me. She's also making up her timesheet, working hours outside her contract, not working at all some days she's claimed to be online, and making spurious claims about the competence of our staff when she doesn't understand accounting basics. At this point it looks like the partners are embarrassed to admit it's been a failure so they've doubled down on the last one and assumed we are the problem. I'm at my wits end with it. Jobs I could complete in 7 hours are taking 4 hours to properly review and then another hour or more to debrief the remote worker on the issues with the draft. These same jobs are taking them over a week to put together so time and budgets are absolutely wrecked. We're also being heavily scrutinised on our working papers, with reprimands over the daftest things (missing prep dates, "poor" formatting etc). It's starting to feel very claustrophobic and I'm beginning to hate what I do. I'm fairly well compensated for my level and experience, but I am worried the ceiling in this kind of firm is likely to be lower than an industry job (with more stress; I was industry for a few years before entering practice and only really worked one week a month). I think I'm fed up with corporate accounting, the extra work and faff just doesn't feel worth it. I do, though, like completing self assessments. By contrast they tend to be much easier, much less regulation, and automation/well built spreadsheets make completing them a breeze. My firm don't want to get involved in the self assessment market too heavily as they feel it's too low margin. Personally I can knock out 5-6 a day without breaking sweat at £250 a time so to me it seems very profitable. If I could get into personal compliance in a remote position that paid well enough I would take it in a heartbeat. But I don't know if such a thing would even exist (I have looked at Tax Scouts, but feel their business model is exploitative and the pay is terrible compared to what I could get even advertising locally). I'm also considering going back into industry, but I know from last time I switched to practice it was really hard to get in as practice accountants tend to look down on those in industry. Or I could go out on my own - I would need to get a practicing certificate for that though and I can't see my firm helping me get one! If anyone has been in a similar position and has any tips I'd be very grateful.