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> bookkeepers are "white collar" but do little problem-solving, etc.

If you think that then I’d wager you’d never had to digitise any form of economic based system. I need an accountant to even begin to tell me how to do their weird nonsensical math, because it’s not actually math but law. Law which is open to interpretation. Law which still has to be boiled down to financial calculations and budget planning.

In Germany you get a green tariff when you produce solar energy. You do this in most of Europe, but in Germany the tariff goes away if you exceed a certain amount of energy production, as in, you’re either paid X or you’re paid 0.




Please see my sibling reply - I don't think it, bookkeepers do (according to TFA's dataset).


I’m not English but is bookkeeper not another word for accountant?


Basically, yes - it's a loose term for those kinds of roles. The specific field in TSA's data is labeled "Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks".




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