Speculation and whataboutism to deflect from Pedonald’s mind-blowing corruption. Where are the sources and proof? Yawn.
Here’s some whataboutism for you: You now, Baron Trump is a genius! He timed his billion $$ crypto gains exceptionally well, 30 minutes before his dad announced the new 100% tariffs in China. A true visionary, like his daddy.
ICE. I’m not going to even get there. Just read this every tme you want to defend them:
Again, sources? When was it? What does it have to do with what is happening now?
I lived in Chicago for 5 years. My wife is from Chicago. I have many friends and extended family from Chicago who have lived there with their families for generations. You know how many didn’t die of gang violence and “Chiraq”? All of them.
But yeah, Portland is a war zone, L.A. was devastated by antifa riots, and 7 million of protesters yesterday left the country in ruins after violently attacking the poor peaceful MAGAs
So Dear Leader posts a terrible AI video appearing as a king who shits on Americans. And this is OK??? In what universe does the so-called leader of the free world openly shit on the people he was elected to serve, whether he liked it or not??? His title is President of the USA, not President of the bootlickers, rich profiteers and unfathomable morons who swallow the never-ending stream of lies I spit.
Just want to vent that I’ve been studying for my CPA for over a month now, and I still fucking hate it with a passion. Like, I gave myself sunday off for the first time in a month yesterday. That was the first day I didn’t do some form of accounting for any time in over a month, and it felt AMAZING. I was hoping that would reinvigorate me so that I could come at my CPA study excited and fresh.
So, I sat down to do my time tonight, and I at least wasn’t dreading it like I usually do. BUT, I scored 60% and gave up 2/3 of the way through tonight’s practice test. It feels like every time I understand one thing, I forget something else. And I’m not a dumbass, I have a master’s with honors in accounting, I do ALL the accounting at a company doing $60 million a year in sales. But this test is designed to take a competent accountant and BREAK THEM. And I’m losing the fight and I fucking hate it.
And this might not be so bad if it wasn’t sucking up ALL my free time. And I mean ALL my free time. Lunch break at work? CPA Study time. Time after dinner/chores to decompress? That’s CPA Study time. Woke up in a cold sweat 2 hours early and I can’t go back to sleep? May as well try to get some of that CPA Study time ™ in.
I’m supposed to be doing 3-4 hours of this a day, and I can barely bring myself to do half that, and it shows. I want to quit so much and just be a regular ass accountant, but I feel like I’d be letting the people in my life down if I gave up this soon.
BUT HERE”S THE KICKER - THIS IS TEST 1 OF 4!!!
If, by some miracle, I pass this portion - I have 3 more helpings of this to look forward to. It feels undoable. I know it’s not, I know several people who’ve done it. I know if I just buckle down and do the work I can pass this thing. But I have a job that takes up most of my time, and just finished a masters, and my brain just feels like a bruised pile of mush at the end of a day. I cannot make it do this, and I feel like I’m just miserable trying. So instead of taking a break or doing some work, I cuss at my computer, beat my desk, scream til’ I’m hoarse, and then fall into bed exhausted and do it all again.
jeez, you guys, it’s like you are INSIDE MY HEAD, sort of. i guess. it’s pretty moist in there. anyway. there’s no fucking TIME. for anything. the process of living day by day in my shoes is just this laborious and repetitive cycle of failing upward. a lot of times i forget to just live in this place called “The Now” everyone keeps talking about. “be present wayne you’ll feel better.”
i have no patience. i need to meditate again. daily. there’s lots of things – i need to do lots of things. i’m overwhelmed, sure by all those things but also because it feels meaningless, and i’m overwhelmed by my inconspicuous nothingness of a life sometimes. infinitesimal.
the flow without the ebb, is not possible. i know this. so why am i so fucking discouraged all the time? is it because I just feel like there’s no goddamned time? i did so many things today. on paper, it was a successful grown-up day for me. stop complaining wayne. MAN UP. live in the moment, they say. well i say, “mo’ moments mo’ problems.” adulting sucks.
The CPA Exam is a 16-hour assessment divided into four sections: three mandatory core sections and one discipline section chosen by the candidate. The core sections are Auditing and Attestation (AUD), Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR), and Taxation and Regulation (REG). The discipline sections available are Business Analysis and Reporting (BAR), Information Systems and Controls (ISC), and Tax Compliance and Planning (TCP). Candidates have the flexibility to take the sections in any order they choose, with up to two sections possible per day or each section on separate days. Each section lasts four hours.
It reminds me of the many project managers that have years of experience and struggle to pass the PMP certification. I considered it for a minute, because I did PM’ing for years, but after what I read, I went “nope”. This may be the same issue with your CPA. The exam is all over the place, a typical case of “bite more than you can chew”, which is confusing and seemed designed to make people fail more than to make them succeed.
Well, good luck. This must be a brutal endeavor, especially when working full time.
When you get poor sleep on a regular basis and have a lot of things constantly on your mind (work is certainly a big offender in fucking up your resting times), the building stress will make you feel overwhelmed, sad and/or angry. Your brain then becomes hyper-active, which fucks up your sleep even more, and the spiral grows/gets worse. Any little thing can irritate you and make you lose your shit. Ask me how I know.
All in all, breathing is still the best (short-term) way to calm down. Long breaths, focusing on them and going back to breathing when any unwanted thought pops up.
Also, maybe write down all the stuff you think you absolutely have to do (from the tiniest tasks to the massive ones), and address the bullet points in an order that works for you. Then cross whatever task has been done. This seems like nothing, but it is oddly satisfying for the brain when one looks at crossed things off the list. Maybe because it is tangible proof that you are achieving more than you think you are.
Yeah, part of it is definitely unfair and unrealistic expectations. BUT, people who get this thing press fast forward on their careers by 5-10 years. There is no CPA who is unemployed by force, they always have work anywhere they want to go. So the career flexibility and stability this would bring would be AMAZING… if I can survive getting it.
I didn’t know you were allowed to take two sections at once, but that’s insane. They recommend 130-150 hours of study per section. You study/take one section at a time, ideally 2-3 months per part. I’m doing FAR right now, which is considered the most difficult part by most people (though there is no easy part). FAR is probably the most math-heavy, so you really have to know all the formulas inside out and backwards. Imagine a test of all trick word problems. Like, they are trying to trick you into solving the wrong thing 95% of the time. It is complete BS, but again, that advancement/stability for getting this thing is very real.
Oh also, once you pass one part a clock starts ticking and you have a limited time to pass the rest. It’s 2.5 years now because no one could pass it in the 18 months they used to give.
That’s the thing I don’t get. How does it matter to know formulas by heart in 2025? There’s this thing called the internet where I’m sure you can find those in about 5 seconds when you need a reminder.
On one hand, I and every practicing CPA I’ve talked to agree with you.
OTOH, knowing these things inside out legitimately has helped me be faster and catch issues sooner at my day job. Like yes, I would get to the same place eventually, but my studying has gotten me there faster with less pain. So as much as I hate to admit it, there is something to this.
I feel this right now too. As someone else mentioned a to-do list helps. I make one for myself every day while I’m at work as I think of things I need to do after work.
I limit myself to the front of a single post-it note. Sometimes, when I need to go easy on myself, I even put basic stuff on there like “make dinner”. If I cross everything off my to-do list, then I feel good about my day.
Conversely, if you put something on your to-do list every day for 3-4 days and you don’t get to it, you can probably let that thing go and life will go on.
Eventually, my to-do lists have gotten pretty manageable. I mean, they’re kinda tough right now because every night has “study” on there, which is a small thing on the list that takes up a lot of my time. But, I’m realistic about what else I can include on the list (dinner, shower, dishes, walk). I wish music were on there every day right now, but I’m lucky if it makes the list once a week. I wish videogames were on there every day, but I get them on Sunday and that’s it. But I’ve been through times like this before and I know it will end.
Hell, put meditation on the to-do list and I’m pretty sure you’d unlock nirvana. You get the calm of the meditation with the dopamine hit of crossing it off your to-do list afterwards.
I do, but not that much really. less than a couple hits a day. mostly when I am done with the day. this is actually good advice though. too much cannabis is no bueno. i don’t think i’ll ever completely quit though, it’s reached the point where i treat it like actual medicine. benefits of a little bit outweigh the cost of not doing it at all.
thank you. I make lists daily and weekly, and I’m quite meticulous about it compared to Past Me. I am about 70-80% consistent in keeping up with the lists. i absolutely love post-its. in fact if I do get one thing done, it’s making myself lists, including prioritizing tasks, estimated time of delivery, and putting (most) things in the “no rush/do later” column. great advice though. if I didn’t make my lists I’d be a goner lol.
I really just have a lot on my plat. what I need to work on is time management and balancing between things, training myself to stay focused. chip away at things a little at a time, and set certain days for certain projects. I even estimate the time of completion, and I set timers for many of the things. i just get distracted so easily. I don’t use social media unless i’m posting content, or I set aside time to respond to things, and that’s helped a bit. IDMf doesn’t count, but it should
I would be down to try hunting again. I like fishing more. good advice.
this is something I need to incorporate better: tracking progress. I skip that part of my planning. then months go by and it feels like i’ve done nothing, which is wrong.
I love this advice, and it may not seem like it but I leave my phone on silent a lot. if I’m not working at my desk, i’m off the internets and in my hammock, garden, greenhouse, on a walk, or just existing without it. great reminder though.
I appreciate all the responses to my vent y’all <3
Just want add whenever I smoke or drink socially…the day after without fail I have like an ego death.
Then a few hours later I feel better and realize the shits in my head.
There’s the high and then after the high there’s the down.
And the down isnt always real. The down is sometimes imagined. But it can make you feel so fucked up that your constantly chasing the high…in order to avoid the down…
What works for me is to not avoid that ego death…and embrace it that and never go beyond a certain limit when doing those things socially.
I’m trying to get my weekly video done and holy shit, it’s fighting me. I realized in low light, my phone records in a variable frame rate, it comes out in non sense frame rates like 29.45 and weird shit. Had to find a work around much like @KvlT helped me with previously.
Next I kept finding stuff I wanted to fix after I spent the 25-30 minutes exporting lol. After that was all fixed, I exported and all my sound was out of sync, changed quality settings tried again, same thing.
I guess resolve doesn’t like mp4’s on long files, had to export quicktime. After 5 exports my video was all good.
Now to the audio stems, I run an ancient version of Sonar, exported the wavs which I let run while I slept a few hours, I was up until 4am trying to get it all sorted. Realized I forgot I hit record and let my track run for about 30 minutes with just some atmosphere going. Trimmed that up and am now exporting stems again lol.
All this for a lame ass ‘practice session’ . Well it will be posted tonight for sure, learned alot of dumb shit too
Human-sized piles of dumb shit is how I get better at things. I’ve heard stories about people that can figure things out without pain, grind, and trial and error, but I ain’t one of 'em.
Looking forward to the video and glad you’re sticking with it.
Bro… if there is a trial to he worked around, I’m the guy going 80 smashing into that bitch head on instead lol. Our engineers would always say, the job is 80 percent trouble shooting and 20 percent recording. This is so true but with all multimedia.
Man, I’m so lucky that my FOSS setup just works™. I just use OBS and Kdenlive (and Python for anything it can’t already handle out of the box) - it’s not foolproof, but I’m surprised at how fast it is once you get clipping.
Before my hard drive crash a few years back, I never once had problems creating videos and exporting. Since starting this weekly series, it’s all I’ve had. Spent around 10 hours or more last night, digging at it today already too. Shit is killing me. I think I figured out enough work arounds to start to streamline it after this go around though.
The video starts out kind of a hard watch lol. I got caught up in the moment of noodling keys that I wasn’t changing much but the further it progresses, there are some moments that are worth it, just takes a bit to get there. You guys get to watch my practice flow and how my brain works in real time
. Well it will be posted tonight for sure, learned alot of dumb shit too