This ‘boring’ job that millennials and boomers abandoned is the hottest seasonal job on the market—and it’s Gen Z’s path to a six-figure career

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As millions of unemployed Gen Zers use the holiday period to hunt for jobs, there’s one role shining brighter than Rudolph’s nose: accounting. 

The only catch? It’s lamented as one of America’s most boring jobs, and because of AI it may be heading down a path to extinction. Some 340,000 accountants have already left their calculators behind and quit in the past five years, and some estimates suggest that 75% of those remaining are expected to exit in the next decade. Between boomers leaving and millennials rejecting the field as dull, the industry is facing a talent shortage crisis.