Ever feel like unemployment almost sounds better when your job pays barely more than the benefits, except with 10x the stress? Makes you wonder what the easiest way to get fired would be. Burn through PTO? Stop caring?

Big 4 salaries come with big burnout risks. I'm currently at Deloitte, and I'm running on fumes. However, I'm too afraid to take a step back or take time off because I never know when layoffs will hit and I don't want to be seen as weak. So I keep pushing myself. How do you guys work yourself to the point of exhaustion and yet avoid burnout?

Did you learn anything in college that actually helps you in your career? I've been thinking about it, and I'm not sure what information I've taken with me from school into my career. Makes me wonder, what's the point of college?

Have a question on AI. If AI is so good at what it does… what would be the point of a Big 4? Can’t any small firm take this AI and be just as specialized efficient as a Big 4? Couldn’t it create an explosion of entrepreneurship? More competition ?

Hearing rumors that the EY Honolulu office may be shutting down. Does anyone have insight into what that could mean for employees based there? Curious whether relocation would be required/covered, if people would move to remote alignment, or if layoffs are typically involved in situations like this.