u/Bardimir

Well, here comes the anxiety again.

My dad finished his treatments for Stage 3 throat cancer in 2021 after immunotherapy (had radiotherapy + chemo beforehand in 2020). Since then he has had routine check ups all positive.

Today he didn’t have such good news. The doctors saw something weird on the side of his throat he had cancer on and have scheduled him a CT scan to the neck to see what’s going on.

He hasn’t spoken about feeling any symptoms and his last check up 6 months ago was completely fine.

The quick pace that it went from fine to suspicious and in need of a CT scan in just 6 months worries me that it might be super aggressive recurrence of his cancer.

Anyone has any stories to share? Could this just be a false alarm? Could it be a recurrence 5 years later?

Hey everyone, just looking for some opinions or to see if anyone's been through this and if there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

For context, i'm in France and i joined one of the BIG4. When i joined in, a month ago, i spoke to the partners and they told me that i was originally going to be doing the tax & accounting compliance for multiple projects, however, another project suddenly started having problems due to its sheer size, so i was pulled into that project instead, and exclusively.

I've been in the project for about 1 month now and it's insanely tedious and nothing that i was promised i would be doing. I'm a certified accountant in France, i have 4 years of experience in massive F500 companies as an accountant (and then senior accountant), i know how to use many ERP systems and i've dealt with tax & accounting compliance for these entire 4 years.

What tasks am i doing exactly, you may ask? Well, i'm just correcting mistakes the bot implementation is doing. Basically a simple game of matching lines for the bot to learn. And no, it's not even journal entries, literally just fixing PO lines that didn't match.

Is this the future that awaits me as a BIG4 consultant? Just playing a matching game? I left my previous company as i wasn't learning anything any more. I had insanely good work/life balance and pay, i lost those two, thinking i would be getting a lot more experience, but instead got basic data-entry tasks that even a monkey can do?

Is this the norm for new joinees in BIG4?