Franklin
11-28-2014, 08:25 PM
Dude, you've been my best friend around this place since I first came here bro, and here I have some serious questions to ask you concerning my Lunar Goddess (not relationship advice, but about her job). I know you've been working as an accountant for about 3 years and you must know this business better than any other spurstalker does. So here is the story...
Yesterday I went to school and met with a friend of hers... she told me that LG had already signed a pre-contract agreement with PwC, and when I was about to leave school I happened to meet with LG. She greeted me when I didn't even notice her at all because she was dressed in formal suit, I had never seen her dressed that way before. She confirmed it, she told me she was just back from the local PwC branch which she signed the agreement with. I was glad for her of course, she had clinched a contract while most of us were still hunting for jobs like dogs, but...
Later that day I searched PwC on google (chinese version of google, to be accurate, since google is banned here). I had heard about the super heavy workload of PwC (or any other of the so-called big 4 assholes) a long time ago but still I found on the internet way more than what I expected. I even saw news that reported the death of a 25yr old PwC employee due to excessive fatigue, and I was frightened as shit.
I know working at such a big firm kinda sounds cool, but we work for money & a happy life but not for coolness, right? PwC and the other 3 assholes hire thousands of youngsters every year who have little to none knowledge about accounting, then after receiving some entry-level training the poor young people will be used as cheap slaves. And yeah, the pay is rather mediocre compared to the workload.
As an expectant boyfriend or whatever you may call it, I probably should not discourage my dream girl from pursuing her dreams, and I know that such jobs come with considerable salary rise in the future, but I still gotta say this... guaranteed money is guaranteed money, and don't believe in no such promises made by the exploiters if they're not inked on the contract.
PwC (or any other big 4 asshole for that matter) is just a glorified Target imho. I call it "glorified" because the pay seems to be better than Target's (ask my nigga Jacob) but in fact it is actually even worse if you factor in workload. I don't know how it works in America, but a company like PwC hiring laymen to do accounting job is always beyond me tbh. M>S, if your job could be done by an English major just after a few months of basic training, then why did you spend 4yrs beyond at college studying that accounting shit in the first place? And the job itself didn't seem that hard to get... just one round of exam (70% pass rate :lol) and two rounds of interviews, maybe everyone interviewed was given an offer (just like the college job we interviewed for last week). Yes, only few people go to PwC or the other 3 assholes, but it's probably not because most people aren't qualified but that they just don't want to, imho. No major limit, and even bachelors can apply for such jobs and hopefully get recruited...
So here is my point, again... if a job is so easy to get, it's probably not worth taking. Next week I'm gonna call her out for a dinner something, and I'll let her know that she doesn't need to work like a glorified slave to live a happy life in East New York (my hometown). We wouldn't even need to save up for a home since my parents already have a shitty apartment which's been vacant for years in downtown area, not so big but cozy enough. I'm not saying our family is richer than middle class, but at least we're not very poor thanks to my mom's genius investment 12 years ago (when she purchased that shitty downtown apartment just because it was close to the school I went to, and its value has increased 8 times since then :lol).
But on top of all, LG has to accept my love. Next week on our first real "date" I'll be honest like a fool to her, trying my best to persuade her to reconsider options (each of us is allowed to renege once). I won't be a male dream killer to her, of course, I will respect her decisions and choices, but I'll also keep encouraging her to continue the job hunt. She has told me that she prefers government jobs or similar ones for better stability, so I guess the PwC job isn't the ideal one for her imho.
So, m>s, what accounting firm have you been working at, and how heavy is the workload? The workload doesn't seem too heavy to me since it appears that you still have so much spare time to spend posting on Spurstalk. And what's your honest opinion on PwC, or to be more exact, your prophetic prospect for LG's future at PwC (if she eventually works there). Lunar Goddess hadn't learned shit about accounting before, and she kinda sucks at math so I'm not very optimistic tbh.
Yesterday I went to school and met with a friend of hers... she told me that LG had already signed a pre-contract agreement with PwC, and when I was about to leave school I happened to meet with LG. She greeted me when I didn't even notice her at all because she was dressed in formal suit, I had never seen her dressed that way before. She confirmed it, she told me she was just back from the local PwC branch which she signed the agreement with. I was glad for her of course, she had clinched a contract while most of us were still hunting for jobs like dogs, but...
Later that day I searched PwC on google (chinese version of google, to be accurate, since google is banned here). I had heard about the super heavy workload of PwC (or any other of the so-called big 4 assholes) a long time ago but still I found on the internet way more than what I expected. I even saw news that reported the death of a 25yr old PwC employee due to excessive fatigue, and I was frightened as shit.
I know working at such a big firm kinda sounds cool, but we work for money & a happy life but not for coolness, right? PwC and the other 3 assholes hire thousands of youngsters every year who have little to none knowledge about accounting, then after receiving some entry-level training the poor young people will be used as cheap slaves. And yeah, the pay is rather mediocre compared to the workload.
As an expectant boyfriend or whatever you may call it, I probably should not discourage my dream girl from pursuing her dreams, and I know that such jobs come with considerable salary rise in the future, but I still gotta say this... guaranteed money is guaranteed money, and don't believe in no such promises made by the exploiters if they're not inked on the contract.
PwC (or any other big 4 asshole for that matter) is just a glorified Target imho. I call it "glorified" because the pay seems to be better than Target's (ask my nigga Jacob) but in fact it is actually even worse if you factor in workload. I don't know how it works in America, but a company like PwC hiring laymen to do accounting job is always beyond me tbh. M>S, if your job could be done by an English major just after a few months of basic training, then why did you spend 4yrs beyond at college studying that accounting shit in the first place? And the job itself didn't seem that hard to get... just one round of exam (70% pass rate :lol) and two rounds of interviews, maybe everyone interviewed was given an offer (just like the college job we interviewed for last week). Yes, only few people go to PwC or the other 3 assholes, but it's probably not because most people aren't qualified but that they just don't want to, imho. No major limit, and even bachelors can apply for such jobs and hopefully get recruited...
So here is my point, again... if a job is so easy to get, it's probably not worth taking. Next week I'm gonna call her out for a dinner something, and I'll let her know that she doesn't need to work like a glorified slave to live a happy life in East New York (my hometown). We wouldn't even need to save up for a home since my parents already have a shitty apartment which's been vacant for years in downtown area, not so big but cozy enough. I'm not saying our family is richer than middle class, but at least we're not very poor thanks to my mom's genius investment 12 years ago (when she purchased that shitty downtown apartment just because it was close to the school I went to, and its value has increased 8 times since then :lol).
But on top of all, LG has to accept my love. Next week on our first real "date" I'll be honest like a fool to her, trying my best to persuade her to reconsider options (each of us is allowed to renege once). I won't be a male dream killer to her, of course, I will respect her decisions and choices, but I'll also keep encouraging her to continue the job hunt. She has told me that she prefers government jobs or similar ones for better stability, so I guess the PwC job isn't the ideal one for her imho.
So, m>s, what accounting firm have you been working at, and how heavy is the workload? The workload doesn't seem too heavy to me since it appears that you still have so much spare time to spend posting on Spurstalk. And what's your honest opinion on PwC, or to be more exact, your prophetic prospect for LG's future at PwC (if she eventually works there). Lunar Goddess hadn't learned shit about accounting before, and she kinda sucks at math so I'm not very optimistic tbh.