Not sure about this one

Working 50-60 hours a week and trying to study for the CPA exam on top of it isn't too crazy, right? I'm two weeks into pulling a full-time 40+ hour schedule at the accounting firm while still picking up some nights at the pharmacy. I'm determined to stick with it for now, but damn I'm exhausted. At least I'll be able to afford a new computer in the near future. Off to bed...where I will have about five to maybe six hours of sleep before I get to rise and shine for another day at the office.

Finally, Some Real Job Experience

In an effort to make my life even busier I've taken a full-time position with a local CPA firm at least through tax season. I already know that this won't be a permanent position so I'm still looking for something in Chicago, New York, or some other large city (hopefully where it's warm all year). What this new job will really do is give me some real world work experience that I had been lacking for my field when I was doing interviews for jobs late last year. Time and again they would start to ask about relevant work experience and all I really had was a few semesters of volunteer tax work while I was still going to school. I was, unfortunately, shut out of most internship programs because all the big public accounting firms in the region contract with our masters program to get candidates. Thus leaving only a handful of industry opportunities for those of us not taking the program because we'll have all the credits we could possibly need for the CPA exam.

I also opened a rather large box from amazon.com today which included all my study materials for the CPA exam. I'll be applying for my notice to schedule sometime this week and I'll hopefully have my exams taken care of by the time my lease is up at the end of the summer. Doing well on these and the GMAT, which I plan to take sometime this summer as well, will probably be deciding factors in my plans for at least the next few years.