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In the Public Accounting world? I would say a huge C. I went to a leadership conference back in my college years and I happen to find this old man in the corner eating pretzel sticks and I just went up and talked to him. We exchanged information (this was required at the event to anybody we talked to) and little did I know he was a CEO of a major CPA firm. He emailed me of a new entry job position that pays up to 95k (plus some really good benefits) that isn't posted anywhere else. It seemed I was still competing against a couple of other candidates (which spoilers I won it), but I wouldn't have ever gotten this opportunity if it weren't for my lucky break of going out of my shell to talk to this old man about 8 tracks. No I'm not even joking, majority of our conversations was about a super niche hobby and he told me about this job position because he liked me.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Whats depressing is that I know a lot of CEOs, COOs, and other high level employees in my line of work

and you would be surprised how stupid and dumb a lot of them are. im literally convinced a lot of the guys working at big firms would be working in Amazon or McDonalds if they didnt have anyone help them get into their current jobs

I will say this, when I was studying for my CPA exam I asked the other CPA's in my firm questions and almost all of them answered with a "I don't know, I threw out all that shit the moment I got my CPA license". I would consistently correct them of beginner mistakes on their reports, but I guess the difference was they get to charge exuberant prices because of those three letters to their name. What I learn about getting a CPA license was that it doesn't tell you how much you know and how much experience you have, it only tells others that you committed your full time to being a Public Accountant.