Here's an article that expands on the security of accounting jobs in wall street As bad as the accountant tag is, and as bad as the auditor tag is, one beautiful thing about our experience is that it is arguably the most technical of the lot in the financial services field. And with businesses getting more and more complex, the accounting gets more complex, and thus barely any accountants are getting laid off. Job security is a beautiful thing.
Blogged about my life in the Big 4 and now about life in Private Accounting