I have a few thoughts, and I'll try to keep these roughly in logical order, but no promises cause I'm writing quick before getting ready for work. 🙂
1. People are stupid. All of 'em, every day. Some people's stupidities are more specifically annoying to each of us than other people's stupidities, and some are smarter than others, but all people are pretty stupid. If you work a job around people (which is pretty much all jobs..), you're going to have to deal with stupidity. That's the bad side of things. That's also why my boyfriend, who has Aspergers (high intelligence, lower tolerance for social BS), has decided to work from home, in roles with minimal contact with normal people. If dealing with stupid people is specifically hampering your career, this might be an option to consider. I hope to work from home someday for a plethora of reasons, but getting to choose my amount of interaction with the general stupid populace is definitely on the list.
2. I don't think accounting has a specifically higher ratio of stupid people. So, I don't think changing careers would be specifically likely to help anything. I work currently at a college campus, so I interact with professors from various fields, admissions (aka sales 😛 ) staff, tech staff, strategists, etc. etc. – all the roles that it takes to run a business, basically. There's a fair amount of stupidity throughout all of them; the accounting department isn't less-stupid than the others, or more-stupid than the others, but the stupidities are ones that I can handle being around better (for the most part). Given that accounting is a professional field, I would think the average IQ is slightly higher than some other fields, so a career change isn't likely to help a lot.
3. I think each person has stupidities that particularly annoy them; avoiding conversations on those tends to help. One of my recent coworkers has terrible personal financial management (this was within the accounting department). That's a topic that bugs me when someone is just simply stupid about it; I learned that, with her, I should avoid conversations about personal finances if at all possible, so that I didn't say something I shouldn't. This might seem like “duh” point, but it's a big way I avoid problems, so I'm sharing it anyway.
4. Best way to avoid problems: learn ways to say/express what you really think without others really knowing what you're saying. Knowing a few good cuss words in a foreign, little-known language can be good for this; if you mutter them under your breath, and someone hears, they still don't know. (I use these mostly when I'm reading an email that's crazy and I can't keep it in – if someone walking by hears me, they won't know what I'm saying, and it keeps me from sending a stupid email back…but, not useful in conversation. haha.) Having a desk that allows you to flip someone off under the desk without them seeing over the desk can be helpful. Etc. This has to be used carefully, so that it doesn't make the problem worse (if you get yourself riled up), but can help to release some steam before dealing with whatever caused the issue.
5. Similar note: having a safe venting person/place is important, too. Some venting can be done with a coworker, but mostly this needs to be something outside of work: someone in your personal life, yelling at the steering wheel, whatever it takes.
6. I think the higher an individual's intelligence (at least in the subject matter being discussed), the harder it is for them to handle stupidity around them. So, you might be more intelligent than average in your office/town/etc.; that means there's more things that will seem absurdly stupid, and more things likely to set you off. Try to realize this is a good thing (the higher intelligence), and realize that it's something they don't have the benefit of having, and allow that to modify your response slightly.
Overall…yes, I've dealt with it seeming like the people around me are complete idiots at times. If people are willing to learn, I can curb this by helping them see how to do it better next time etc., but when they're obstinate and stupid, I sometimes have to just walk away from the situation till I can handle it. Trying to minimize contact with stupid people on their stupid topics can help, but only to an extent. And…I've had a bit of the “you're too blunt”, but since I'm from the North and I now live in a small Southern town, it's considered a cultural thing, and I guess people give me a bit more grace on it for that reason.
Also, having an Aspie boyfriend who naturally has these issues 10-fold (higher intelligence so everyone around is pretty stupid by comparison; likelihood to say exactly what needs to be said instead of sugar-coating it; etc.), and learning how he's modified his behaviors to be able to work in the general work-world (before he switched to work-from-home), has helped me to understand how to manage my own similar issues.
P. S. If this is an extreme issue, it might be worth looking up Asperger's Syndrome (though it's now officially an Autism Spectrum Disorder, but it's been known as Asperger's for many years and still good resources under that name), and see if it might be the root of your struggles. These struggles exist for people (like me) that aren't Aspie, but can be particularly profound for Aspies, So…if you've never looked it up, might be worth a review and see if it describes you. If so, it doesn't change what you can or can't do (you can be an Aspie accountant), but it might help you understand what's going on better and how to move forward. Understanding that my boyfriend was Aspie and it was the source of some of his struggles helped him and I both to approach them better and get better results, and understand how he can use his strengths most effectively. At first it's a little scary, like “Hey, yesterday, I was a fully functioning adult; today I found out I'm autistic; what now?”, but when you realize nothing's changed and you've just got more information to accurately assess yourself vs. others, it can help a LOT.
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