Just finished my first real week of work

[Joe]

At a real job. And it was a learning experience. You think you're grown up when you get out of college, but until you've started working a real job (or you worked one while in college) you really aren't. I feel like I've aged five years in five days. I really feel good about it though - the work suits me, it challenges me every day (but not in negative way) and I feel like I'm not going to be one of those people who comes in to work every day and hates the shit out of their job.

Also, I got my results for the first part of the CPA exam. And I passed the living fuck out of it.

[Zaia]

Congrats, dude, both on passing your exam and getting through your first week of work.

[J]

Well, here's to surviving the rest of your life in the real world! Congratulations!

Oh yes, and watch in despair as the government takes away a large chunk of your income, and cry some more when you can't get it back after April as you could in past years. Only then will you know the joys of the working world!

[Jalinth]

Also, I got my results for the first part of the CPA exam. And I passed the living fuck out of it.

Nice going on the exam. Working in public accounting or in industry? I'm a CA - come up here and see what the UFE is like Very nasty exam.

Seriously, a CPA can give you leverage and if you like to travel and like auditing, it is a way to see the world since auditors are very mobile. Wished I liked auditing more, since in tax you aren't able to travel the world nearly as freely.

[Joe]

I'm actually in neither auditing nor tax - I'm in loss accounting, which is sort of like forensic accounting. We primarily support the preparation of insurance claims, so it kind of gets your foot in the door in both risk management and accounting. There'll be a lot of travel.

I'll probably take the CFE exam once I finish the CPA, that would open up a lot of doors for me.