Being Able to Be Yourself—Nicholas Ferron of UVM Health Network

What do you love most about your job?

Being a tax professional is like being the person who gets called in to clean up a crime scene: Nobody knows what you’re doing, nobody wants to know what you’re doing, and if nobody ever hears about what you’re doing, then it means that you’ve done it right.

The market for tax work is one that everyone else will pretty much let you corner, and once you’ve managed to do that, the job affords a great deal of autonomy and the freedom to be your authentic self. You can be young, you can be eccentric, and you can be nerdy. You don’t need to spend a lot of effort hiding your quirkiness or eccentricities because your clients and colleagues already think you’re weird for liking tax.

But you know what? They still appreciate you and work that you do, because they sure as hell don’t want do it themselves.

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Author Information

Nicholas Ferron, J.D., MBA, is network director of tax, compliance and strategy at the University of Vermont Health Network, a group of nonprofit hospitals in Vermont and upstate New York.