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Feeling like a failure?
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R80k?
Really? I'm a fairly old CA but do not earn that p.m. Ok, this excludes bonus, but I can only think you in government or in some sort of backwater golden pool of grants.
I am intrigued to hear where you work. All ears.
Stefanmuller
Expert Member
Would like to know how old fairly old is and what sector you work in being a CA? Seems like CA job salaries are very much about connections as many job offers pay weak asking for a CA with 5 uears experience. I know CA is a good qualification but sometimes wonder if its worth all the flippen hard work. Keep falling further and further behind hoping to catch up once I make it.
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Picard
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I'm more interested to hear about "wife's" job than "Splinters'".
The qualification does open doors - but it does not mean you will walk into a high paying FM job. Then again, some new CA might get a new job earning the same or more than I am right now - but it is also about the relative earning power over the years. I would not be able to afford my house, my rental flat and my car right now without the accumulation of wealth and lower costs back then of the capital items I purchased.
But what do you mean about the "flippen hard work"?
That makes two of us. I reckon it is a load of poo.
Stefanmuller
Expert Member
Getting there is hard work - getting CA. Well the way I chose to do it. Studying while doing articles and CTA after that. Finished articles in 2010 and only did my Board1 this year. Yes, I know. Took 5 years for CTA.
OrbitalDawn
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No need to be so passive aggressive. Do you have a goal you're working towards or are you content with earning peanuts and then moaning about it constantly?
No it doesn't. Next time you feel down or a tragedy happens, I hope someone tries this BS on you to see how you like it. A loved one dies? Well **** you for feeling bad, some guy in Vanuatu lost his whole family so your feelings are invalid. Or maybe you're one of the lucky ones that never get bothered by anything, I know nothing about you.
It's pretty well known that tactics like yours (misinterpreting statistics, telling the person they have nothing to feel bad about, shaming them for being depressed when others are also suffering or suffering worse etc) only make the depressed person feel even worse and ashamed because there must be something wrong with them.
Besides, as I said and you conveniently ignored, if you make "the grand scheme of things" grand enough, any conclusions you derive become meaningless. Such as comparing yourself to billions of 3rd-world subsistence farmers. According to your thinking, since something like 90% of the universe is made up of hydrogen gas, there's something seriously wrong with your body because it's not 90% hydrogen gas. We don't live in outer space among the stars, we live in a very special (from our perspective) part of the universe. OP doesn't live in rural China or South Sudan, he lives and works in a specific area and society on the planet. Comparing him to those places and telling him there's something wrong with him isn't helping and makes you look like a bit like the people who tell anorexics to "lol just eat something".
That's not exactly the same thing as a schoolteacher though, is it? Not by a long margin.
That's not exactly the same thing as a schoolteacher though, is it? Not by a long margin.
Wife
Well-Known Member
No it isn't, but my point was you can start off as a teacher and with some further study and a little ambition you don't have to continue earning peanuts for the rest of your life. There are other options.
I started off my career teaching.
This mother f...
Reminds me of some dude who used to go to the squatter camps and buy alcohol for his "friends". Thered be a back to back marathon of a series focused on his life and how crap it is amidst folk who have to go get water in buckets from a central spot making their way around his lavish vehicle.
Messugga
Honorary Master
Why? I'm not old nor a CA and I don't earn much less than that... Being a CA is hardly the be all and end all of high salary jobs.
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Eks! Eeekkkkksss!
Ok sorry perhaps I was a bit harsh. I understand that you have great goals and such and that envy and jealousy is part of the human condition that motivates us to move forward and survive etc. Its survival instinct with regards to social psychology. So I guess its natural.
Please bro, be grateful and say thank you once in a while to whatever God you serve. No matter what you have theres always someone with a hundred times less. Consider what you have and then consider losing the closest person you have. Then consider there are those who have lost everyone and everything in one fell swoop.
Be grateful.
Messugga
Honorary Master
Oh no you didn't... Prepare yourself for all the teachers and their significant others to tell you how stressful the job is, what long hours they work, how they don't really have that much leave, etc.
Wife
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They have no form of reference. I've been both sides and being a teacher was much less stressful...and you really miss those holidays when you don't have them anymore.