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    This quote comes to mind:

    My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what?
    My dad didn't know, so he said get a job.
    When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married.
    I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.
    My entire life has had school to structure it and now... nothing... kind of an odd feeling.



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    oh jesus.

    Millions of people in Africa are starving to death and you're having a midlife crisis at 22

    Drama queen

    j/k lol roflcoppter disclaimer

    Get drunk and wake up in some birds bed, you'll feel better
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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    Congratulations, Ice!

    Obviously you need to get a job, unless you're independently wealthy, but may I suggest spending some of your new found free time volunteering for a charity that is particularly close to your heart or needy. It's a great way to fill that after-school void and give your life a certain meaning and purpose that the corporate grind just can't, while meeting and helping some good people in the process.

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    Congratulations Ice!
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    Congrats Ice! Now that you've got your degree in accounting(right?) You can go out and do something that has absolutely nothing to do with accounting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Samurai Waki View Post
    Congrats Ice! Now that you've got your degree in accounting(right?) You can go out and do something that has absolutely nothing to do with accounting.
    degreeS :P



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
    degreeS :P
    Lol, Congrats! Look at this way at least you majored in something which you may actually get a job pertaining to.

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    Did you go for a Masters or do you have two separate degrees? You could go the traditional route, get a career, do all that crap... which is what I did, but mostly because I have a family to support. On the other hand, (now that you have TWO Degrees) the probability in finding jobs that offer a bit of exploration and getting out to see the rest of the world are substantially better, then when/if you get sick of that you can return home, or wherever and be an accountant with a little more eclectic resume.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Samurai Waki View Post
    Did you go for a Masters or do you have two separate degrees? You could go the traditional route, get a career, do all that crap... which is what I did, but mostly because I have a family to support. On the other hand, (now that you have TWO Degrees) the probability in finding jobs that offer a bit of exploration and getting out to see the rest of the world are substantially better, then when/if you get sick of that you can return home, or wherever and be an accountant with a little more eclectic resume.
    Yes, I have both my masters and bachelors. The combination typically prepares one to prepare/take the CPA exam and become licensed in almost any state. Unfortunately, I've been having trouble finding work in public accounting so my future is a murky right now. I think I'll land something eventually, but even if I do, do I really want to be an accountant for the next 50 years of my life? I've just never really hand to consider these things too heavily before, but after 23 years it's time.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
    Yes, I have both my masters and bachelors. The combination typically prepares one to prepare/take the CPA exam and become licensed in almost any state. Unfortunately, I've been having trouble finding work in public accounting so my future is a murky right now. I think I'll land something eventually, but even if I do, do I really want to be an accountant for the next 50 years of my life? I've just never really hand to consider these things too heavily before, but after 23 years it's time.
    You can probably quite easily work for a private corporation (more money) or the government (less money more promotion opportunities and job security) both could lead into a different career that simply begins in accounting especially something corporate.

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    Congratulations!

    23 is too young to work seriously. Get a job, then backpack Europe for three months. See South America too. And go herd sheep in Australia. Meet some girls, fall in love, way overspend your visa in some foreign European capital and end up living there, doing something completely unrelated to your field of study.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Congratulations!

    23 is too young to work seriously. Get a job, then backpack Europe for three months. See South America too. And go herd sheep in Australia. Meet some girls, fall in love, way overspend your visa in some foreign European capital and end up living there, doing something completely unrelated to your field of study.
    And then realize it is no longer pre WW1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    Congratulations!

    23 is too young to work seriously. Get a job, then backpack Europe for three months. See South America too. And go herd sheep in Australia. Meet some girls, fall in love, way overspend your visa in some foreign European capital and end up living there, doing something completely unrelated to your field of study.
    I bet you write some stirring poetry

    I wish I could follow the path Hemmingway, drunkenly wander into Paris, fight the evils , put all of it a novel or two, and then end it proper when the world has retreated into its suburbian ranch house complete with 2.5 kids and a station wagon.

    Part of me still has hope
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Come to Australia, we have a shortage of accountants.
    #Hillary4prism

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    Drunks, do you have a shortage of drunks?
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Congratulations!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    Drunks, do you have a shortage of drunks?
    That is one of the few things we have a surplus of.
    #Hillary4prism

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    Congrats Ice
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    there Ice!

    I'm graduating as well, although not till next month for me, but I've finished the course etc.

    However, I don't have the same sense of losing my structure you do. tbh I never felt like a student because I was rarely at the Uni itself, my live will continue to revolve around handing out fried chicken.

    Oddly enough, I have thought for a while, as Strike jokingly said, I am having a "mid-life crisis". But there was an article a while back somewhere that talked about how there is a new "quarter-life crisis", with students graduating and then not knowing what to do with their lives.

    I had a thread in the Frontroom not long ago where I was talking about the thing with whether or not to dive straight into a career. If you don't feel like you want to go into 50 years of accounting yet, then don't do it. You went straight through school then Uni, so just do what you feel like for a while.
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    Get a job, rent an apartment and fill it with furniture. I hear Ikea has some nice stuff.

    Congrats, Ice!
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    Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
    Get a job, rent an apartment and fill it with furniture. I hear Ikea has some nice stuff.

    Congrats, Ice!
    , thanks, Drone & everyone else!



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    Congratulations!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
    Yes, I have both my masters and bachelors. The combination typically prepares one to prepare/take the CPA exam and become licensed in almost any state. Unfortunately, I've been having trouble finding work in public accounting so my future is a murky right now. I think I'll land something eventually, but even if I do, do I really want to be an accountant for the next 50 years of my life? I've just never really hand to consider these things too heavily before, but after 23 years it's time.
    The job you are doing next year is not likely to be the same job you are doing 50 years from now. Like it or not, you've locked yourself into a career path for the immediate future due to your choices in college. Use the degrees you've obtained to get yourself a job and become financially stable. Once that is accomplished, you can start branching out in employment and look at other areas of work that interest you more. It is common for people to change career paths multiple times during their life. Your job is your real education, school is just what gets your the first job.

    As for your first post, it's a great movie but it's not deep philosophy. The point of all of this is to be happy; if you are not, everything else is pointless. Your job is to first figure out what makes you happy, then determine how you are going to achieve that happiness. You will find the answers to both of those things in time. One thing to remember though is that maximizing happiness over the course of your life sometimes means doing things you do not enjoy in the short term.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
    My entire life has had school to structure it and now... nothing... kind of an odd feeling.
    felt the exact same way when I graduated......it goes away.

    congrats.
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    Congratulations, Ice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TinCow View Post
    The job you are doing next year is not likely to be the same job you are doing 50 years from now. Like it or not, you've locked yourself into a career path for the immediate future due to your choices in college. Use the degrees you've obtained to get yourself a job and become financially stable. Once that is accomplished, you can start branching out in employment and look at other areas of work that interest you more. It is common for people to change career paths multiple times during their life. Your job is your real education, school is just what gets your the first job.

    As for your first post, it's a great movie but it's not deep philosophy. The point of all of this is to be happy; if you are not, everything else is pointless. Your job is to first figure out what makes you happy, then determine how you are going to achieve that happiness. You will find the answers to both of those things in time. One thing to remember though is that maximizing happiness over the course of your life sometimes means doing things you do not enjoy in the short term.
    Well said. And at least he's an accountant and not a lawyer.

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    Congrats!

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    Nice man. 5 years for a masters is very good. Still a long way to go here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reenk Roink View Post
    Nice man. 5 years for a masters is very good. Still a long way to go here.
    Still at Michigan? What are you studying?



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    Congrats Ice.

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