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Congrats ccap41, always great to get your education. I always have told my relatives that a college education is not just getting a degree in a specific field, but it shows you can start and finish a project which is very important to companies, and one does not have to stay in the field they got their degree in. I am a perfect example of this as I have my education in the medical field and in international sales and marketing and I am a computer engineer by choice. Yes, my niece has already started to study for her CPA as the company she works for is going to pay for all the testing here in Washington. The company that won her was Tax Services | Deloitte US For 21 years old, she is a tax specialist consultant and started at $80,000 a year. Not too bad for a 21 year old. Yes this Uncle is very proud of her hard work and accomplishments. My gut tells me based on her comments, she will get her CPA, get the experience of a large tax company and then strike out on her own. Again, congratulations on getting your Bachelors, always a major awesome accomplishment and goes a long way in achieving a better quality of life.

@ccap41 Congrats on your soon to be completed degree. That landscape used to be very different. You would just get a BSBA, BBA, or BS Acc. with an accounting concentration (120 cr. hours), go to work for a firm where you got the right experience, and then take the CPA exam. Different states then started phasing in the 150 cr. hour requirement (semesters, not quarters) and it was sort of muddy. In some places, I believe, you got the regular undergrad. in accounting but they weren't very specific about what the next 30 cr. hours should contain and in some places it had to be in business and/or accounting. I wondered if it was to thin the ranks. The reality is that, for those extra 30 cr. hours, you could get a M.Acc., which might be more practical and aligned with what you studied before. I have a cousin who went to UF who did BS + M.Acc. in succession, so he had 5 years of accounting education. Either way, they are now wanting 150 cr. hours to sit for the CPA exam, with a stipulated number of cr. hours in specific accounting subjects. Sure, for some jobs you need a CPA or it helps, but It can also go to waste in jobs like auditing and accounting policy inside a corporation when you were attracted to it because you like to do exacting work - like working with numbers and data. For people who graduated a while back, just the BS with a CPA followed by a law degree usually leads to a lot more money, if that's how you run the show and that's what you value, than BS Accounting with an MBA (other than accounting) and a CPA. These people often ended up in the exact same jobs that BS + CPA got. In big cities, a lot of people would add the MBA later, since great schools were offering them at night, weekend, hybrid, etc. What few classes I had in Business Law were like pulling teeth. My attention span can get short when I see no numbers, graphs, formulae, tables, and information I can easily retain. Even though I can retain quirky information fairly very well, too.

Words of wisdom I have always lived by as both my grandfather's taught me. They were both Drill Sergeants in the Marines at Pendelton. Spent plenty of summers there causing chaos with the new recruits, but my grandfather's always told me to pay yourself first to save so retirement is comfortable, second save for buying quality products that last as you will spend less out of pocket than instant gratification of buying stuff all the time, third, whenever you do a project and need a tool, buy the tool and take care of it as you will always have the tool to do future projects and the final nugget of wisdom, never stop learning, nor listening to others point of view as while you can always agree to disagree, you just might find a pebble of knowledge worth saving that can benefit your future life. Wishing you all the best as you grow your career and move around, never be afraid of change as that is one constant, we can all count on. Change is inevitable. Just see the revolution in the auto industry and supply chain to know the truth.

I've always told people what you said plus that you know how to learn things. Even if you don't end up in your field of study, it shows that you know how to learn things and you have the ability to learn whatever new career path you'd like, like exactly what you did. My sister has her bachelors in Biochemistry and she used it for a few years and now she works for Pella Window and is in marketing.. drastic change! Speaking of Deloitte, there's a Deloitte downtown here in STL as well and I was told by a friend's sibling that once I have my CPA they could help me get a job with them. Thank you! It's been a loooong road...but I've finally done it! I've only taken two semesters off since high school (graduated in 2007) so I don't really know what it's like to not be taking classes. I was full-time for the first 5-ish years but once I started at my current employer I was only taking one or two classes a semester and trying to take something every summer, if it was available. Back in March I landed an actual accounting position within my company as I was only 1 summer class from graduating and a bachelors was required. That was a decent raise but with current inflation, the raise wasn't felt as much as it would have been a few years ago. I have a ways to go before I'm making what I would really like to make.

From one of my business etiquette classes, they highly suggested sending thank you letters and/or emails immediately. They all said, at the very least, if the decision is a tie and one wrote a letter and one didn't, you have a leg up. It will never hurt your odds, only increase them. Congrats to her! I just too my final final exam for my bachelors in accountancy. I'll FINALLY be a graduate. Funny enough, my last class was "advanced taxation". I'm not a fan of taxes so I don't plan to use my degree for a tax job. If she got her masters, does she also plan on getting her CPA? Everything I've heard/read is that a CPA will get you way further than a masters, when it comes to accounting. I assume she has the credit hours, if she got her masters. I'll be graduating with 152 credit hours after changing majors and schools a couple times when I was younger and a CPA requires 150 credit hours so that's next on my plans.

Interesting observation, up till 2019 Dell Technologies in Seattle would hire 100 interns working on their bachelors and usually 95 to 97 would accept a job from us before they graduated college. Once graduated, they would come to work for us. In 2019 we had 50 Bachelor and 50 masters' interns In 2020, 2021 and now 2022, we are only hiring masters' students for Interns and still have the same very high rate of hiring. My Niece graduated this year at age 21 with her master's in accounting, specializing in Taxation. The two places she did interns at, one working on her bachelors and one on her masters both offered her jobs before she graduated. When she graduated, she took 4 weeks off and then went to work at the company she chose before she graduated. If the people have the right skill set, they get hired before they even graduate college with a guaranteed job. For those that did not do internship while in college, I can see you have to network for job interviews and I do believe a thank you note is important, but not a letter in the mail as it was in the 70's to 90's. Now getting their cell phone number or email address and sending a message within an hour of leaving from the interview is very important I have come to notice as it can be the difference between you or another getting a call back that day with an offer. Interesting how head hunting also plays a roll in jobs today. One needs to stay on top of the trends and work areas that pay.

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Yet again, you clearly have not paid attention to the fact that Tesla Platinum S has more than proven itself at Nurburgring. Watch The Tesla Model S Plaid Set A New EV Nurburgring Lap Record (forbes.com) A Tesla Model S Plaid has set a new lap record for electric production cars at the Nurburgring, with an official lap time of 7min 35.579secs. Not the Taycan! For Racing again, NOT BMW nor Mercedes, but VW for EV record in racing at the same track. Volkswagen ID.R is “Electric Racing Car of the Year” | Volkswagen Newsroom (volkswagen-newsroom.com) Volkswagen ID.R Breaks Nurburgring EV Lap Record With a 6:05.336 (roadandtrack.com) If you have looked at any of the latest Hummer by GMC videos as I stated, they do handle for how heavy they are and EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES. Every leader has their day and then someone else comes along and beats them. GM had their day; Mercedes came along in the 80's to 90's and replaced them. Now it looks like Hyundai is doing it and Cadillac is starting to rebuild to get back to the Standard of the world. The next 8 years are going to really show the changes that will happen in the auto industry and YES, I expect Hyundai to deliver the next Pony EV car for people who want driving dynamics with Performance in the $30 - $40 K range.

Model 3 Performance is 4000-4100lbs and put down 0.95g laterally. No Lotus, but that's no joke. That's legitimate performance. https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-model-3-vs-jaguar-i-pace-vs-alfa-romeo-giulia/

The N Vision 74 is COOL AS HAIL!

The N Vision 74 is really cool, although they'd have to make it an EV, a fuel cell isn't going to sell since there is no hydrogen network. Hopefully they build both of those. Performance cars aren't dead, but all these EV performance cars are just 500-100 hp and fly in a straight line but weigh 5,000+ lbs so it isn't like they are going to handle like a Lotus in the corners.

I LOVE that N Vision 74!! That's a potential Electric Camaro/Mustang killer!

Well the Taycan had the record. The AMG GT63S is 7:23 though, beats the Plaid by 12 seconds. The Black Series is 6:43, over 52 seconds a lap faster. The Hummer might handle well for a 9,000 lb vehicle, but that's because it weighs double of a normal size SUV, so what do you compare it too. I am saying where is the EV that can handle with a Miata, BRZ, Corvette, Boxster/Cayman, etc. Car and Driver compared the AMG EQS to the Model S Plaid, stated the AMG is better but it isn't enough AMG. These EV's can blitz a quarter mile, but it is one trick pony performance, so I'd like to see the handling, breaking, weight cutting come into play, which over time with battery tech will eventually happen. I hope Hyundai makes the 74, but it's a $75k car or more if they put 577 hp in it, the Ioniq 6 N is probably a $75k car, that's getting to low end Corvette money. That's too much money for those. Right now $40k is the base Ioniq 5 with 168 hp that weighs 4,000 lbs, not exactly a Golf GTI or Civic Type R competitor for fun factor.