What a stupid comment. Where I come from, accounting is a fairly semi-successful occupation. Lots of people I know in my community are accountants, who love it, and are leading really happy lives. Just because there are people who don't aspire to be independent, let's run the show, I am my own boss, entrepreneurs, and would opt out for something a bit safer and more stable, doesn't mean they're accepting a prison-like lifestyle. Your childish, baseless, and condescending comment is actually quite offensive.

You'd think someone as old as yourself would know that there's more to life than a job.

And you'd think these types of garbage comments wouldn't get upvoted. To be honest, it's not even that witty.

My brother really loved accounting as a subject in college. He found something else he likes more now, but if he had become an accountant, I don't think he would have felt his job was like prison.

Just because something might feel like prison to you, does not mean it feels the same way to everyone.