[Twenty-three]/[nine] down, one to go
Nov. 5th, 2020 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellwayMy grade in the managerial-accounting course has been officially finalised: A+. (97.5% on the exam!! \o/) Today the registration went through for my new course, on commercial law. The official start date is December 1st, but there's nothing stopping me from getting a head start on reading the textbook. I'm thinking November 19th: first schoolday after my birthday.
Commercial law is the last course I need for my certificate of accounting. Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be graduating sometime around March or April.
Entry-level accounting jobs aren't *as* plentiful as they were in 2019, and taking public transit is a somewhat more daunting proposition than it was. But there *is* still a pretty steady trickle on Indeed (mostly in-person: I suspect people are clinging harder to remote jobs), and I already placed a fair bit of weight on minimising the amount of time and transfers in my bus commute. And of course if the field is *really* barren, there's always the option of selecting a course off the associate's-degree (well, "advanced certificate") list, continuing my current lifestyle, and trying again next semester.
Speaking of which, yeah, it does kind of sting to know that at this rate I could've *already* had an advanced certificate if I'd gone straight for it. Seven of those uncounted-towards-the-certificate courses can be put towards an accounting bachelor's if I ever go that far, one wouldn't have counted towards a CS bachelor's either (I took remedial English to gain more confidence with essay-writing), but the other six are lost.
But there are a lot of positives here. I *did* figure out my calling, at the still fairly young age of ~24 (depending on where you draw the "figured out" line). It's a relatively rare career to be called to, which puts me at an advantage. I'm set to graduate with zero (0) dollars of student loans: I can skip over that *entire* bullshit and head straight to the accumulating-capital stage of my career.
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(Tangentially, I'm...a little concerned by how hard the university employees are working. My exam was graded one real-time day and *zero* business days after I took it: graded, in fact, on the night of *Halloween*. When I emailed the finance department asking for clarification on payment methods when paying partly with bursary funds, the autoresponse said it would take 3 - 5 business days for a response and a couple *hours* later they *called* me. Yesterday what looked to be a manually-written response told me my registration request (which needs to be processed manually because it involves a bursary) would be processed in 7 - 10 business days, and today I received the standard automated "welcome to your new course" email and the new course shows up in my list of active/recent/upcoming courses.)
Commercial law is the last course I need for my certificate of accounting. Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'll be graduating sometime around March or April.
Entry-level accounting jobs aren't *as* plentiful as they were in 2019, and taking public transit is a somewhat more daunting proposition than it was. But there *is* still a pretty steady trickle on Indeed (mostly in-person: I suspect people are clinging harder to remote jobs), and I already placed a fair bit of weight on minimising the amount of time and transfers in my bus commute. And of course if the field is *really* barren, there's always the option of selecting a course off the associate's-degree (well, "advanced certificate") list, continuing my current lifestyle, and trying again next semester.
Speaking of which, yeah, it does kind of sting to know that at this rate I could've *already* had an advanced certificate if I'd gone straight for it. Seven of those uncounted-towards-the-certificate courses can be put towards an accounting bachelor's if I ever go that far, one wouldn't have counted towards a CS bachelor's either (I took remedial English to gain more confidence with essay-writing), but the other six are lost.
But there are a lot of positives here. I *did* figure out my calling, at the still fairly young age of ~24 (depending on where you draw the "figured out" line). It's a relatively rare career to be called to, which puts me at an advantage. I'm set to graduate with zero (0) dollars of student loans: I can skip over that *entire* bullshit and head straight to the accumulating-capital stage of my career.
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(Tangentially, I'm...a little concerned by how hard the university employees are working. My exam was graded one real-time day and *zero* business days after I took it: graded, in fact, on the night of *Halloween*. When I emailed the finance department asking for clarification on payment methods when paying partly with bursary funds, the autoresponse said it would take 3 - 5 business days for a response and a couple *hours* later they *called* me. Yesterday what looked to be a manually-written response told me my registration request (which needs to be processed manually because it involves a bursary) would be processed in 7 - 10 business days, and today I received the standard automated "welcome to your new course" email and the new course shows up in my list of active/recent/upcoming courses.)
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Date: 2020-11-05 11:57 pm (UTC)(Also, Congratulations! both on excellent progress for an excellent career and on studying with people who care and respond to your emails. Oh how I wish I had these things.)
(Actually I remember seeing memes about grad students forgetting Halloween was a thing because they had grading to do, now that I think of it)