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For over 15 years I held customer support roles in a variety of industries. At the same time developing skills in other areas; such as being ordained as a Zen priest and receiving an Integral Coach certification. After being laid off in May, I decided to pursue my coaching business full time.
My question is, for those who have sought out coaching, which area of your life did you focus on first and why?
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Hi Big 4s,
Which Big 4 is good to join for the "Certified Information Security Manager" (CISM) role?
Considering the following factors:
1. Learning and Personal Growth opportunities.
2. WLB (I know it can be difficult in the Big 4)
3. Flexibility and Perks.
4. Company culture.
5. Better work environment.
6. More responsibilities towards work.
7. Ethics and values.
My next goal is to move into the Big 4.
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Oh Jesus dude I literally bought a windows laptop in college purely for excel. Mac excel is the absolute worst (unless you’re okay with clicking every thing with your mouse).
Op - you don’t need a windows pc, you need windows as an OS. Set up boot camp, partition your hard drive, install a windows side and you’ll get 100% OS power. It’s better than losing memory to run Parallels and doesn’t require buying a new computer
That’s entirely up to you. I would see how it goes before you commit to purchasing a new computer. If it’s unbearable, I highly recommend Lenovo. Make sure you have some sort of 10 key, whether built into computer or a usb attachment
Excel on windows is the way to go. All of financial modeling, market projections (for marketing planning and strategy) is done in excel.
What school are you going to?
Use whatever you'll be working with on your field. Never understood why people used Macs when we live in a Microsoft based business world.
There's a cheaper surface coming out that runs around $400. Or the real surface if you're not on a budget.
A1-that's mostly true. Would still be using a Mac keyboard which requires different muscle memory for shortcuts. This is my current situation and I really don't like it, although I may be particularly picky. My solution is that if I know I'll be doing a lot of modeling, I'll bring a Windows keyboard and plug that in 😕
It’s essentially the same thing on my Mac keyboard. The Apple key turns into the windows key. All else is the same. All the windows shortcuts apply to it
You could buy a separate windows keyboard and connect it at that point if you really want a windows keyboard
Hmmm. Yeah. Except op has a 1400 Mac. So, it’s like not buying anything and making it run like a $400 pc. Saving $400
I’m in B-school right now. Given all the modeling you’ll be doing with your Finance classes, you def want to go Windows! Dealing with figuring out the shortcuts with a Mac will drive you insane to no end, unless you’re a hardcore Mac person and are willing to dedicate extra time to learn Mac shortcuts instead (which is pointless, unless your work computer is/will be a Mac).
Thanks everyone
I would personally go with windows. I don’t like the excel set up on Mac. It’s still Microsoft Excel but it’s a little different
I already have a Mac. Is it worth buying a new windows laptop? If yes what kind? (I don’t plan on recruiting for IB)
So I graduated a couple of years back and IB or no IB, case interviews are for all and modeling questions are asked to all in all interviews (tech, consulting or finance)
I would buy a thinkpad or a XPS if I expect to do a lot of excel work.
Accenture 1-that’s like spending $1400 on a Mac and making is run like a $400 PC.
I like Yoga by Lenovo. Thinkpad is also good.
Windows version is superior, but Microsoft has closed the gap significantly in the last year or so