If I can’t pass the CPA exam should I just hang on for as long as possible in PA and then become a bookkeeper or something? Or yurt idea...

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I can’t pass it because I think I was in a fugue state the entire time I got my masters (even though I graduated magma cum laude). I still google which accounts are increased by debits.

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You can pass the CPA, exam, I promise. It took me forever, and when I finally made myself actually study (I used all the courses, Gleim worked the best for me), and low and behold success. I hated every minute of it, but I literally went to the library every day. I studied, at the library, four hours each night and all day Saturday and Sunday. Did I mentioned it SUCKED!! Regardless, I took all the quizzes, read every damn book, and watched all the videos. And it did work. Don’t cut yourself short. You can do it. Get the CPA.

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You may as well become a bookkeeper now. Why go through all this shit to become a bookkeeper?

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P.S. the Yurt Resort is still accepting investors.

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Tons of industry jobs don’t require a cpa. It helps but you can definitely land a great gig without it

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Did you already take advantage of Becker? I think Becker totally helps. I felt the same as you when I got my masters, but just dedicated my life to studying for a year and got it done

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Hang on as long as you can. Some places don’t require it but you need to leverage your experience as much as you can so u can still make decent pay without having a cpa

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Do one year of senior and leave, anything past that without a CPA is a waste of your time

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Honestly there are tons of things your experience can work for. Don’t believe people who tell you CPA is end all. I think if you do a year or two as senior you’ll still have tons of oops when you leave. Maybe you’ll find a passion after leaving too.

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You can pass the CPA... I know you can cause I was able to do it, just don’t take any shortcuts when studying and it is totally doable. It really takes a LOT of studying cause of the depth of material

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does your company promotes non cpas to senior? I think if you don’t want to be a cpa, start looking what you want now... no point in staying more years (assuming that you dont want public accounting either)...

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Why can’t you pass it?

Yeah work for 3 or 4 years and then jump out

You can be an accountant....without a cpa. You can do internal audit...tax...whatever you want only cpa firm requires one.

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