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Greg Gentry

Senior Tax Manager
Automatic Data Processing
Buford, GA

 

When Greg Gentry mapped out his career path, he made sure to include a few interesting detours along the way. “Clients and friends are a little surprised when they find out I’m a CPA,” he says. For starters, he’s a CPA by day, working with Fortune 100 companies all over the world. By night he’s a guitarist and singer in a band, Nillah. Their music has been featured on MTV. “My wife and I even run a recording studio in the basement of our house,” he says. He’s also an avid scuba diver and restores vintage cars in his spare time.

The flexibility that comes with being a CPA is one of the reasons Greg loves being a CPA. As a CPA, Greg says “you’ll have more work than you can handle. With that comes choices about how you lay out your career path.” And the choices can lead you all over the world – if you want. “Want to live in Europe or Australia for a while?” Greg asks. “No problem.”

Greg should know. As a senior tax manager for Automatic Data Processing, he deals with high-level executives at Fortune 100 companies, requiring him to travel to corporate headquarters in exciting cities all over the place. In fact, he spends about 20 percent of his time traveling.

But of all his pursuits, Greg says becoming a CPA was one of the hardest – and also the most rewarding. When asked if he’d do it all over again, he’s got a one-word answer: “Absolutely.”

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