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Just wanted to share that I am awaiting for what could be my last section of the CPA exam (supposedly being released tomorrow). This has been a dream of mine for almost 7 years now and I want to share my story in the hopes that it reaches some lost soul sitting in a library somewhere studying what has to be one of the most boring subjects on earth.
Aug 2007: FAR: 47
Oct 2007: AUD: 47
Nov 2008: AUD 72
Jan 2009: AUD 64
Aug 2011: FAR 38 (I studied every night for 3 months that summer…don’t just use Wiley)
Nov 2011: AUD 55 (I thought I would never take another CPA exam for the rest of my life)
Feb 2013: BEC 82 (happiest moment of my life)
April 2013 FAR 63
May 2013 AUD 82
Aug 2013 FAR 66 (fear crept back)
Dec 2013 FAR 7 mother f’ing 6!!
Feb 2014 REG ??? (find out tomorrow)
I could post a big sob story here about how horrible this has all been, but I’m not going to. This CPA exam experience has changed my life forever. Nights crawling home after work in the cold, in a blur of fatigue, comforted only by the fire within; the desire to escape the prison of mediocrity I found myself. I sit here now terrified. Tomorrow I may find out if I have earned the right to call myself a CPA, or if it’s time to saddle up again. Either way, I regret nothing. I will fight until my last breath and I would rather die striving to achieve, than die knowing I settled for the cards that fate dealt me. I was not born to be a CPA. My physiology hates the very notion of becoming a CPA, but I will become a CPA because I posses free will and I will win any battle that finds me. Tomorrow is my dance with destiny, but tonight I drink!
To all you poor ******* out there struggling, I give you the indelible words of Theodore Roosevelt:
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
My own personal advice: If you never give up, you will never fail.
Read books. Read tales of survival. I recommend “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors”, you will (likely) never have to do more than those people did to live. Passing the CPA must become like surviving death.
To all of you people out there who breezed through your accounting classes and then breezed through the CPA: Get an f’ing life!
jk
It’s all love. Find the meaning in your lives. Find the humor in your lives. Find the truth in your lives. And most importantly: NEVER F’ING GIVE UP!
wish me luck…
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