Work/life balance is hard to find. Accounting used to be thought of us a job with certain busy times of the year, generally in the spring and again in the fall. These days it seems that it is always busy and there is never a break. Working 80 hours a week over and over again with pay that while seems great at the beginning, diminishes significantly with every additional hour worked. One of the other big issues is that there is so much administrative work, its hard to find the time to do any real work. We are so bogged down with risk management issues, checklists, time reporting, scheduling, etc that real work comes later and pushes the hour threshold yet again.