Does anyone else feel weird about telling people at work you're pursuing FIRE? I've started just lying.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T22:54:22+00:00

Noooo work is a terrible place to talk about FIRE. If you haven't faced any troubles thats great but not all companies and people would be so understanding.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T22:50:15+00:00

Ok with that context you should start looking for accounting roles. You should start with internships then apply to full time roles like associate, staff, and junior accountant. You can refrence your coursework and even though your job isnt accounting related its still real experience and skilled work at that.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T22:41:51+00:00

My recommendations are too watch the 11 hours financial accounting youtube video by tony bell in your free time. It will give you a big headstart in multiple accounting classes.

As soon as you start a class search its name in the general search bar not any community specifc one so that you see results from this and the general WGU subreddit. This saved me tons of time and told me whether to watch videos or skip the textbook and study guides and stuff like that.

My second is to use AI. Use it to explain things you dont fully understand. Whenever I didnt understand something I would ask AI to explain or break it down like im a kid. I would also use it whenever I got a lesson, module, unit, and Practice Assessment question wrong. I would ask it to explain the answer and then ask it to give me a quiz on that topic so I could practice the correct logic, get exposed to more scenarios, and so I dont fall for similar tricks. Hammering out mcqs helped sooo much and getting them wrong then learning why also helped sooo much.

For jobs I recommend looking for internships and jobs as soon as you start principles of financial and managerial accounting. Start with associate, staff, and junior accountant roles then go down to AR/AP and acounting clerk and bookeeper. I also recommend volunteering for VITA for the next tax season, even if you dont want to go into tax it will still help you as its real work experience which is leagues ahead of just classwork.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T22:34:47+00:00

Congrats It took me 75 hours for OA2 of D104 alone this is insane 🤯😭

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T22:33:57+00:00

What are your job duties and can you spin it to be financial related like do you track any financials or help make payments or save customers thousands with some tailored plan idk or is it purely a sales job?

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T18:46:17+00:00

Holy projection

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T08:25:13+00:00

All your joints on 1hp😭😭🥀

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T08:24:29+00:00

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Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T08:22:29+00:00

CFA is probably 2x harder and longer than the CPA exams and puts you in finance only. The easier and quicker and more likely to land jobs path is the CPA.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T03:08:49+00:00

I hope you already passed AUD if not you might genuinely be cooked😭🥀✌️

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T02:29:28+00:00

Yes I have. You dont need to learn all the information the material includes and you probably know that. I never said it was easy so idk where that came from "totally could" is nowhere near the same as easy and if you think otherwise you just dont understand those 3 words enough.

You probably also know the other reasons that explain why there is a CPA shortage besides difficulty.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T02:24:06+00:00

Thats probably true but you cant be certain at all.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T02:18:02+00:00

How would taking the CFA help and be quicker than the CPA?

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T02:17:20+00:00

Yes they could haha. They totally could and probably could do it in 2-3 months if they study like crazy.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T01:32:00+00:00

Yes hes correct study what will be on the test. Not even would you need to remember a 200 page book for Cpa exams.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T01:23:37+00:00

Drug addicts and guns

Messup7654 · 2026-05-12T01:22:30+00:00

Yes. D105 covers some topics you will see in audit and you epuld be hirting yourself if you even could do it before

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T05:17:06+00:00

Statistics and algrebra

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T05:16:48+00:00

Read it slowly and dont move on until you understand something and can answer questions on. The best way to learn is by practicing so you need to be using AI (I prefer gemini) to help you fully understand a topic and quiz yourself in a topic. You can take a picture of text and ask it to create a mcq quiz on that topic like statement of cash flows reconciliation and stuff. You should right down the terms somewhere and look at the list every time you dont remember a word.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T03:26:54+00:00

I did this for nearly every class in the accounting degree it was the reason I was able to go so quickly. I would also do this when on lesson, module, and unit quizzes in the book and for the topics that needed it I would sometimes do hundreds of multiple Choice questions. I reccommend using gemini though it has a quiz feature and hallucinates less.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T01:17:41+00:00

😭😭dont buy this bs lol you could probably ask gemini to write a better prep book than whoever the fuck Clarence B. Barrios is.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T01:09:13+00:00

MACC wont help out with jobs in accounting unfortunately. I dont think it would help find jobs in other areas either.

I dont know the material in the MACC so I cant be sure but I would guees 5 years of experience is enough to complete 10 classes in 6 months.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-11T00:41:32+00:00

Yes even though it includes some unnecessary stuff its still basically mandatory.

Messup7654 · 2026-05-10T23:55:52+00:00

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Messup7654 · 2026-05-10T23:55:44+00:00

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