Trading profit-and-loss statements for pumping septic tanks may sound like an odd bit of career calculus. But nearly three years after making the abrupt U-turn from accounting to the septic service industry, Mathew Deines says that, on balance, things couldn’t have ended up much better for him and his wife, Nicki.
“My father-in-law said, ‘You can’t do that — you’re an accountant,” Deines says, recalling the day in 2018 when he decided to switch professions and establish All-American Septic Pumping & Services in Valley Center, about 40 miles north of downtown San Diego. “But I did it anyway.
“My goal
