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.
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