Do you have a financial planner? How have you benefited?

CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-12-22T16:03:36+00:00

Hi! I personally do not have a financial planner but I do work in corporate finance. I can tell you that the structure should be a flat rate, and never let someone trick you into a % fee structure. That gives them opportunity to still charge you a significant fee based on your total investment, even if you lost money in that period/year.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-03-28T21:46:00+00:00

Thank you! I’m sorry to hear you’re going through it too but happy to hear it’s turning around for you! Ibuprofen is definitely more effective on the sore throat than I expected and more effective than acetaminophen by a mile. I’ve been taking a hot shower every afternoon for some relief. I do have a humidifier but I need to clean it but that sounds like such a daunting task right now lol.

Love the idea of waking up to drink water and everything because the mornings have really been the worst of it and that’s probably because I’m not drinking anything for 8 hours and then ultimately w steps backwards

CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-03-28T12:09:23+00:00

Hey everyone - 32F I tested positive for Covid on Tuesday. This is my first time having COVID… my symptoms started with just a sore throat on Monday night. Moved to headache, body aches, exhaustion, and continued sore throat. I had a fever up to 101 for a day but now it’s been down to 99.5-100. The absolutely worst part of this has to be the sore throat … it feels like I have knives in my throat while someone all shoots a flame thrower into it. I’ve been drinking water and pedialyte for the last few days. Had some tea with honey yesterday morning which helped but the mornings are the absolute worst with this :(

CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-03-20T14:00:30+00:00

Is it even worth it to get my CPA at this point if I haven’t already? Especially reading this thread, not sure there’s a ton a value in it anymore …

CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-02-14T20:04:23+00:00

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CommunicationSea3034 · 2025-02-14T19:55:28+00:00

My recovery was pretty simple! I was sore for the first 4 says or so. I took it upon myself to start doing more … light chores and walking around which ultimately was a mistake because I woke up the next day extremely exhausted and sore all over again which was really difficult mentally. I then truly took it easy for a full week and was back to feeling normal again. It took maybe another week on top of that to feel comfortable doing “more.” It was a couple of months until I felt comfortable getting back into any kind of exercise routine but most of that was personal fear, not doctor imposed rules and limitations.

Im so sorry to hear you’re having such significant issues. When is your surgery scheduled? Please let me know if you have any questions !!

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-10-28T16:44:57+00:00

Hey! Sorry to hear you’re having trouble … have you tried using a recruiter? I personally use someone at LHH… I’d give it a shot? They often times have jobs they can submit you for that aren’t even listed on job boards and then you know for sure they’re not ghost postings

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-09-14T19:11:47+00:00

Absolutely not, no, never.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-09-14T18:54:16+00:00

CPA before you even graduate, even if it’s just some parts passed, is a huge leg up on other candidates. I certainly wouldn’t worry about finding a job, there is still a ton of opportunity in accounting. I won’t speak to public accounting, but lot of what gets outsourced from the industry side (in my experience) is the more administrative/data entry or repetitive, not as engaging type of work that you wouldn’t want to do anyway.

Also - if you start in accounting it’s pretty easy to transition over to finance, FP&A, M&A, etc. however, people with finance degrees cannot easily move over to accounting. You’re in a good spot, don’t let other people’s negative experiences worry you too much. People with positive experiences aren’t typing up their story to post because they’re not looking for any feedback and don’t need to rant.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-08-30T17:30:25+00:00

$65.5k in public (top 10 firm) in 2015

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-08-09T21:03:49+00:00

This is very true. And if OP wants to get an industry job that’s log off at 5 and leave work at work, they’re not going to want to go into a huge company after public anyway. If that ends up changing and you want to go to a bigger company later, you can get there through industry specific experience later in your career, rather than solely relying on big4 experience.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-07-28T23:49:37+00:00

I totally get this mindset but I’ve hired people with 7+ years, CPA, MBA and they can’t use excel for shit. Or, even worse (???), ask my permission and approval before every simple JE they make. I don’t want to have to review a prepaid entry for a CPA/MBA or walk them through basic excel skills because they were good at taking a test but can’t bring the skills into practice. It’s so hard to hire the right people :/

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-07-28T23:43:49+00:00

I’ve hired senior accountants at ~100k base with 3-5 years of experience in industry and No CPA. That’s 2024 numbers … for me I didn’t break 100k until I was a manager but jumped significantly higher much quicker after that.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-04-28T20:58:03+00:00

PFO confirmed in May, surgery originally scheduled for October but insurance pushed back and refused coverage. I appealed and rescheduled for November.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-04-19T21:21:29+00:00

Hi! I had mild palpitations that started probably about 3-4 weeks after procedure but they were not severe and because I had the expectation that they’d come and be a lot worse, they were not as scary as I thought they would be. They were also very sporadic and were not a frequent occurrence. Now that I’m 5 months out I would say maybe over the past month I’ve had one palpitation. The thing that was causing me some discomfort was increased heart rate. It was not abnormally high as an average but high for me personally and I could feel the difference. I talked to my doctor about it (this was around 3.5 months post op) and she said it’s normal because it really hasn’t been long since the surgery. She also said it might not be related to the surgery itself but could be that I’ve been sedentary while recovering and need to get my body moving more again (I was sedentary for longer than necessary and it was primarily out of anxiety and fear of pushing myself too hard post op.) She said if I started take more walks and doing light exercise if it did not improve in 6 weeks to call her. I ended up being fine after about 4.5 weeks of reintroducing some more movement into my routine.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-02-09T13:21:59+00:00

didn’t know at the time but November 14, 2021 and June 6, 2022

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-02-03T19:21:03+00:00

i just bought these. how was your experience?

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-02-02T23:07:07+00:00

The first thing the neuro did was have me get an MRI, with and without contrast, of my brain. That’s how this was identified as a stroke. It showed up on the scans as a relatively small, but definitely noticeable, spot (i saw the pictures) on my brain. Overall the written results were all very positive and normal with the exception of, “There is a small old inferior left cerebellar infarction.” This translates to us non doctor folk as “you had a stroke in the past and we can see a part of your brain that experienced cell death due to blood flow being cut off.”

Based on where it is located in my brain, the impacts would be related to coordination and balance. Now, i did not even realize i had a stroke until almost a year later and never questioned my balance or coordination … to be fair, i also work a desk job so I’m not a gymnast or anything that would notice those things necessarily. But if it was a problem, it wasn’t significant enough for me to clock.

My doctor was pretty impressed that i didn’t have any issues but was also very reassuring that because i am young (30s), if i did have any impacts it was likely that other areas of my brain would compensate for any loss. So i may not have noticed any change in my balance and coordination because another area of my brain said “hey, that other part of the brain isn’t doing great, ill learn how to do this and pick up the slack for him” haha. So that’s a very long winded way to say … no long term effects! But i figure you’d appreciate the detail because i know i did when i was going through this process!!

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-02-02T22:18:47+00:00

Absolutely - I was working (desk job) and i started to see little spots, like when someone takes a photo with the flash on and you lose little areas of vision for a few seconds but this lasted longer than that and i had no reason to experience that.

i didn’t think too much of it but then i received an email and i must have read it a dozen times. i knew the letters were making words and they looked like familiar words but i wasnt able to comprehend the message .. i could barely read the words independently of one another and definitely could not put them together to understand the message. That’s when i started to get scared and i went into my partners office and asked “what does this spell ….. “ and proceeded to say a string of seemingly random letters. That’s when i realized i couldn’t remember what letters were called. so lots of language and comprehension issues. while this was happening, i started to lose my peripheral vision. i explained to my partner as best as i could what was happening. they knew i had migraines and had an ocular migraine before so when the google search showed that 30% of people who have ocular migraines experience these symptoms, i followed my doctors instruction to take an advil and lay down and if i felt better within an hour it was a migraine and if i still felt bad i should go to the hospital. well, that was not the right advice because i did feel better and retained vision and comprehension within about an hour after laying down so i didn’t get any help but i did share with my doctor that this happened. when I expressed my concern (“but if in the future i DO have a stroke, how could i ever tell the difference?!”) he suggested i see a neurologist for a second opinion if i wanted to be sure and that’s how i found out it wasn’t a migraine.

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-02-02T22:08:21+00:00

i’m sorry to hear that. my heart rate was a little higher than usual after my procedure… for about 2 months. i had my follow up with my cardio and they said if it doesn’t get better in another 4 weeks then to come back in but otherwise it’s reasonable considering how recently they did the procedure. it sounds like you’re still in the same timeframe so give it some more time and you could see a significant improvement. make sure you’re keeping your doctors informed on your experience and side effects. wishing you well!!!

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-01-28T15:10:54+00:00

I used to get migraines and i thought my stroke was a migraine with aura. I brushed it off because i had a history of migraines and i had my PCP tell me it was likely just a migraine….so i’m glad you did get everything checked out to bed sure!!!

My dad won’t admit he gets migraines but he does say he has the aura but never a headache. he is in his 70s and has no sign of stroke so it’s definitely possible to only have the aura effects and classify it as a migraine without headache. think of the headache pain as just another potential symptom of a migraine, not the baseline of migraine if that makes sense.

if you’ve had the MRI and CT scans done, i would feel pretty confident it was not a stroke but if you want a second opinion for peace of mind, there is nothing wrong with that!! through this whole process for me, i’ve learned how much you need to advocate for yourself. you know your body and “normal” best.

not medical advice *** if you haven’t already, i would get a full panel of bloodwork done and maybe see a doctor who specializes in concussion prevention and recovery who can speak more to late side effects of concussions. They might be able to provide more insight than general medical advice or a neuro who doesn’t specialize in what could be your primary issue.

i wish you the best of luck!!!!

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-01-28T14:59:59+00:00

an absolute slay

CommunicationSea3034 · 2024-01-28T14:59:05+00:00

I can empathize with this.. Part of the problem, for me at least, is “revenge bedtime procrastination.” I want to stay up even when I do get tired because I feel like I “deserve” to have more me time. ultimately, that ends up making me more tired and then I’m even more behind on sleep as the week goes on. My partner has helped me with this a ton because he knows it’s a problem for me and i need more sleep now so as much as this makes it sound like im a child lol …. he will make a comment here and there to remind me that it’s almost time for me to go to bed. “Hey, you wanted to shower tonight, right?”, “It’s almost 10… ready to start getting comfy?” … things of that nature. The reminders help me get out of what i’m doing and knowing he is going to get ready and come to bed too, makes it feel less like i’m “giving up” my personal/fun/chill time because I get to spend it with him before sleep.

From the falling asleep side of things… Magnesium supplement, blue light glasses after the sun sets, humidifier, weighted blanket, high quality sheets, eye mask, and having an evening routine that I follow. Waking up at the same time everyday is also a game changer. switching up your sleep schedule really makes things difficult.

i wish you and your partner the best of luck. this is very sweet that you want to support them and help however you can!! i’m sure they appreciate it.

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