After seven tax seasons of hard work and cursing the IRS and some of these clients also, I've finally decided enough is enough.  I'll still be doing accounting for my CPA friends, but no more tax returns. 

Here's what I'll be missing:

10 weeks, 20 hours a week over 4 days a week.
No co-workers.
Boss is easy to get along with.
Boss works at home, I work in his office.  So, no boss, really.
Clients drop their stuff off, so no clients breathing down my neck.

Sounds good, huh?  Well, here also what I'll be missing:

Phone calls from clients, several an hour.
Opening clients' tax documents.  Most clients don't have the decency to open their own mail.
Unstapling clients' tax docs for clients that actually do open their mail.  Some clients are just staple happy, they think that stapling everything together organizes things.
Dealing with "Why was I charged more this year?", or "Why aren't I getting a bigger refund."
How the heck do I know, I just do the no brainer stuff here.
Adding up medical receipts, or worse, summarizing brokerage transactions.  Pages of brokerage transactions can really do a number on ya.
Scanning all tax docs.  That's why 'no staples' is good.
Always saying to myself, "Why does the IRS gotta do this"?
Seeing stuff about the IRS tax code you really don't wanna see.

Oh yeah, and somewhere in there I get to actually enter the tax info into the computer. 

I not gonna miss it.  "It's dull, dull, dull. I'd rather be a lion tamer", to paraphrase a Monty Python skit.

Thanks, I was feeling OK, very much OK after I told the Boss there I was out of tax seasons.  He's one of the CPA's I'm still doing accounting for.  In between listening to Black Sabbath tunes and playing Bach on keyboards. 

Hmm, come to think of it, all that's more stressful than doing tax stuff.