In recent years, I’ve branched out from simply regular GL Accounting that I’ve focused on for most of my career.
Those other activities include working for a season at H&R Block assisting individual (relatively simple) clients with their tax returns, and also spending 6 months in a FinTech Boot Camp. The two activities kind of merged in a particular site I wanted to mention, that some of you may not be aware of but might be interested in: Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow has a variety of Communities on a range of topics – mainly centered on technology or technology-adjacent topics. But some other ones include a set of communities on English Usage, Writing, Latex usage, other languages (including Ukraine), Travel, Environment, Cooking, Games, etc… And then there are also some Finance-focused topics including some with an interest in tax topics. Like many online communities it has a lot of US content but it’s not exclusive to the US including regarding tax topics.
The content of each community’s activity is around questions and answers, and there is a lot of specificity around how each should be constructed. Opinions are not welcome (which is part of why I’m here again – all my opinions!), only facts, solutions that work, information based on references, etc.. Each community has a behavior standard, there are relatively similar, around common elements like ‘Be Civil’, ‘Assume Good Faith’, ‘Be Nice to Newcomers’, and so on. Asking good questions is rewarded. Providing good answers is very rewarded. Someday when I’m better at that maybe I’ll share my Stacks Overflow profile here, not yet though.
So just in case you’re interested in a wider arena for some research you’re doing, or you want to provide information that fits in one of the communities, wanted to mention that. And if you’re seeing this from Stack Overflow and have any feedback/comments, please share!
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